The Death of Varsoon the Undying.

Maltheas was glad he’d taken that correspondence course with ACME.

Another milestone for Maltheas. Varsoon the Undying is at the root of a great deal of Everquest lore, and Malth needed him dead for the Manastone and Glowing Black Stone heritage quests. Like Lord Maltus Everling, who is still a bit too powerful to defeat, he is the final boss in a Heroic dungeon, so I’ve been putting off dealing with him until today.

So it was […]

Social Games

What’s so social about “social games” anyway? I speak of the likes of Cafe World, and Farmville. I keep hearing that they are the next big thing. I hope that isn’t true.

Sure, you might play them on social media sites, but they’re more antisocial games than anything else. The only real interaction with other people that you have in most of the ones I’ve tested is sending constant spam about lost sheep to your friends list. An MMO is […]

Star Trek Online ST.0.20100217c.4 patch notes, 18th February 2010

Klingon Sector Space

The great STO meme is “Where’s Sulu?”. New players would often not be able to find him, even though he was standing in the same room as Admiral Quinn, the man who told you to speak to him. This was tackled by adding random NPC comments down in the starbase stating exactly where he was. Apparently this was still not enough, as from today he will be added to your contact list at level 2, […]

Everquest 2 Game Update 55 and Sentinel’s Fate Patch Notes

Woot woot! GU55 is going live today, and we’ve just received the patch notes.

The Golden Path is of particular interest to me. I’ll be visiting the newer newbie zones to see what has changed. It’s a bit odd, and a shame, that the original starting areas of Qeynos and Freeport continue to be neglected, but maybe that’ll come in a later update. In any case, Maltheas is going to be in a quest-feeding frenzy for a few days.

In […]

Jack Steel and the Starblade – Episode 10 – The Agenda of Evil!

Episode 10 – The Agenda of Evil

With the help of the Titanian Resistance the Starblade is once more ready to take to the skies. But Jack, Yvette and Charlie’s presence on the moon has brought a deadly foe in their wake.

If you happen to like our little show, do please share it with anyone else you think might be interested. Season one’s Episodes 1-9 are also available through the player below.

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EQ2 Extreme Questing Leaderboard, February 14th

With Sentinel’s Fate almost upon us, I figured it was time to check in with Maltheas, and the Extreme Questing Leaderboard! When last we checked the crazytable, it looked like this:

Everyone’s favourite Ratonga was sitting at 8th. Once again, the tables I use cover the level range from 1-59, as it starts getting silly to to compare level 38 Maltheas with folks who are approaching the level cap. Here is the table as of today:

Gah! Maltheas […]

Ennui

This time of the year tends to be the point where my internal sunlight batteries, which have carried me all the way through winter, finally run flat, leaving me listless and even more grouchy than usual. It’s hard for a game to please me in February, and traditionally this is when I let subscriptions lapse. Breaking up is hard to do, sometimes, though not this year. This year breaking up was right easy.

I’m thoroughly bored of Star Trek Online, […]