Lord of the Rings Online European servers to be transferred to Turbine

Today’s shock press release:

Turbine announced today that it will be expanding its global operations and will assume full control of The Lord of the Rings Online™ (LOTRO) in Europe beginning June 1, 2011. As part of this transition, Codemasters Online will continue to operate the European LOTRO service until June 1st when the existing European players will begin the migration to Turbine’s global service. For more information on the transition, please visit http://www.lotro.com/news/latestnews/1157.

“We are working very closely with […]

EQ2: If I were EQ2 Producer for a day.

I spend a lot of time wondering what’s going on in the minds of EQ2 producers. They are beings of awesome power, but frequently indecipherable motives. But what if a common player could get a taste of that power, just for one day? What wonders might be wrought upon the world?

There’s a limit to what you can get done in a day, even with the might of the EQ2 Dev team behind you, so I’m going to limit myself […]

In Which Ark’s Ark Is Subject to Mysterious Assault

Strange and deeply worrying things are afoot.

An increasing number of WordPress sites around the internet appear to be getting hacked, and having invisible links placed within them that bring visitors to medicine related posts on this site. Posts that do not exist. Visitors I would rather do without. It started with the Infendo site. If you look in its source code, you’ll see a load of links here, but I’m seeing more sites doing this every day, and it […]

EQ2: Game Update 60 is revealed, along with a free week for inactive accounts.

We’ve just had a Press Release regarding the near future of Everquest 2. GU 60 will be concentrating on expanding Velious, and also improving the Battleground system.

The Fortress of Drunder

The plans of Rallos Zek are beginning to come to fruition and the mighty Fortress of Drunder, which once sat within the Plane of War itself, has appeared on Norrath, and now rests high above the Kromzek city of Kael Drakkel. From Drunder, Rallos Zek plans to […]

EQ2: Extreme Questing Leaderboard April Update!

It has been a mere 20 days since last we had a look at the Extreme Quester Leaderboard, but Maltheas has been a busy bee during that time. So much so that the moment has come to include the level 70-79 tier in the calculations.

The good news is that that means that my friends Annyya and Kirskax are back at the top! Ahoy up there! Since the server merge, we’ve even found common cause against a few particularly insidious […]

In Which I Get Some Feathery New Neighbours

I’m really excited. I’ve been living here three years, and for the first time, it looks like I have some birds nesting in the nesting box at the bottom of my garden. I only have one decent tree, and it is the same one I had the flock of Bohemian Waxwings in in January.

I think it’s a pair of blue tits. They spent a few days in March clearing out what was probably a bit of a mess in […]

ThinkGeek release the USB Minecraft Nether Portal

I know what I want for my birthday now!

Minecraft 1.4 released yesterday, with tameable wolves. Expect a Minecraft video adventure in the near future!