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In keeping with the policy of "Whatever you post on the forums we'll frontpage if we think it's good," Hades of LotD gives a state-of-the-suck on Age of Conan. Take it away, Hades!

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LotD is closing in on a full Tier 3 city, and we've held a battle keep since the first day they became available. I have a level 80 Tempest of Set, and a level 60 Necromancer at the present time. Overall I think AOC is a decent game, but I do think its going to take a big subscriber retention hit if it doesn't get some things fixed by the end of the 3 month mark.

Those with a long memory might remember me glancing at a game called DOFUS a few years ago. Small French developer, game very much like R.O.S.E., which occupied us for a significant span of time, yadda yadda.

Well, apparently DOFUS did so well that they've created a sequel, called Wakfu and they emailed me to let me know they're in closed beta for it.

Yeah, Wakfu. I know.

The full moon shines at our Daily Thread!

Topics for May 20, 2008

Corsair Memory attains Godhood, Launches SkyNet.

They clocked the crap out of it.

Microsoft picks up where the FCC was told to STFU

Microsoft unilaterally chooses to enable the now Illegal broadcast flag.

Samsung Makes 1080p TV owners' heads explode.

3840 x 2160 pixel resolution and a 120 Hz refresh rate on an 82 inch LCD

Will The GI Bill get a much needed revamp?

Will the US pony up and help the veterans who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan?

Hmmm?

Its time to get insight from the masses (even if they mass less than other masses…) in the Daily Thread!

Topics for May 19, 2008

Age of Conan: first stab

Rumor has it that it doesn't suck and that its better now than it was during Beta.

Hyped Up:

Fallout 3 continues to draw big hype but is the constant ramping up of expectations just setting gamers up for disappointment? (This is in regards to all games, not just Fallout 3)

The Pirate Bay Sails to the Top

The Pirate Bay has just entered the web's top 100 website metric, is now hanging out with 'legit' sites.

Donnie Darko Directors Cut

Nothing Incredibly new, but the missing bits are edited in.

Allow me to introduce a new feature here at The Corporation, The Daily Thread.

How does The Daily Thread work?
I am glad you asked! We take three or four headlines from the very recent news, and give our forum members the opportunity to generate a discussion for the remainder of the day. The most insightful comments and contributions(or whatever else strikes the fancy of the staff,) will wind up here for all of our loyal readers to read. (I am looking at you, yes all ten of you. For the love of god John put your pants on before coming here!) We do take requests, thought we may or may not honor them after hazing the shit out of them.

Yesterday's Topics were:

• BluRay fails to take off in the marketplace.
• Windows on the XO PC
• Guitar Hero IV: Kicking a dead Keith Richards?

They lack important parts.
The rumor mill on the intarwebs is grinding with the possibility that the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Force Unleashed will NOT have online multiplayer. Why? Because the Wii, DS and PSP versions do.
Wait, what?

According to PSextreme Adam Khan of LucasArts had this to say:

To be specific, there's no multiplayer in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, because there is on the Wii, PSP, and DS. As far as specific reasons are concerned, we don't really like to get into the reasons why we don't do things because I don't think there's really a satisfactory answer that people would really be happy with. So, there isn't multiplayer and that's kind of how it is...

I love gaming on the PC. So much so that it took me several years to buy a current generation console.

I like my XBox360 (Suck it, Sony) well enough, but honestly, some games are just better on PC.

EA has singlehandedly been trying to crush the life out of PC gaming since at least 1997. How do I know? Consider this statement from EA subsidiary Bioware's technical producer Derek French: (From Shacknews...)

BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days to continue working.

"After the first activation, SecuROM requires that [Mass Effect PC] re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez'd and gets banned)," said French in a post on the BioWare forums.

If customers do not come online after ten days, the game will cease to function. "After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run," added French.

The check is run when users activate the game's executable file, with the first re-check coming within "5 days remaining in the 10 day window."

According to French, Maxis' Spore will also make use of the same scheme: "[Electronic Arts] is ready for us and getting ready for Spore, which will use the same system."

French also noted that the online requirement will be clearly labeled on the games' packaging.