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Gaming
Sid Meier Interview
Feb 5th
Sid Meier is the guy behind brilliant games like Civilization and Pirates. I am a big fan of both games (even though I hardly play them anymore, a game of Civ IV takes up quite a bit of time) so I found this recent interview very interesting. It’s over at gamersglobal.com.
A Sid Meier MMO sounds very interesting, he would probably come up with something very original and new 
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Virginworlds #100
Jan 29th
Virginworlds is a great informative podcasts on MMORPG’s. And episode 100 is an epic !
Clocking in at just under 3 hours in length, show 100 has finally arrived. There are probably 30+ familiar voices on this show and you’ll find plenty of raw commentary and information as well as more laughs than any other episode of the VirginWorlds Podcast.
Virginworlds Podcast #100
Gamefire.com
Sep 4th
The guys from Tales of Heroes, a Company of Heroes RTS game podcast, have started a new gaming website at gamefire.com. The video quality of the Company of Heroes replays (accompanied by witty commentary) has been greatly enhanced, but you have to use the website’s player now to view the video as opposed to downloading it off the website like it was before. The site’s player is fine though and I haven’t had any trouble with it, but it doesn’t seem to work for some people.
The latest video that Bridger put up is one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s a very exciting match between 2 teams of 2 players called Down to the Wire.
One that was released a few weeks ago, was also an instant classic, check out Hans the Sniper.
All of this should keep you busy while waiting for the Opposing Fronts addon for Company of Heroes 
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Death of a fellow MMORPG player
Aug 7th
How come everytime I read about a fellow mmorpg player dies, that I dont even know, it makes me very sad ? I just updated my podcast feed of the Instance and noticed a special episode for Bruce Galloway aka Milliway in game. I have never met him, but reading about him, he was a wonderful helpful person.
From A Shadow Rose – Very nice post on warcry.com
Why do I, a thirty-seven year old man, play a computer game like World of Warcraft? What blatant justification could there possibly be for anyone to sit for hours in front of a computer screen and immerse themselves into a fantasy world of RP and, at least for a time, forget about his RL? I can give you one such answer: Bruce Galloway.
The instance – Rest in peace Bruce Galloway
Civ IV: Beyond The Sword
Jul 17th
The new civilization IV: Beyond the sword expansion is coming soon. In preparation I played a few games of Civ IV warlords again and I must say, it’s still very good. Beyond the swords will add a lot of nice new features. Especially the corporations and improved new AI sounds good. I preordered my copy from gameplay.co.uk, and it’s usually delivered around the official release date.
Civfanatics - Excellent site with a load of information and a great forum
Beyond the sword – Official site
** UPDATE **
A very nice history and an interview can be found at Gamasutra
Tales of Heroes
Jun 19th
Even if you’re only remotely interested in RTS games, grab the latest episode of tales of heroes. It’s a replay of a very long and close game of Company of Heroes with very entertaining and sometimes hilarious commentary by Bridger and Vitensby.
Company of Heroes DX10
Jun 1st
Is Company of Heroes the first game that supports Vista’s DirectX 10 ? It looks nice from the few screenshot over at the gamereplays forum, but not that much spectacular from DX9. So dont rush out yet to get that Nvidia 8800 card, unless you got too much money burning in your pockets .
Gamereplays.org Thread on the COH 1.7 patch.
Item on RelicNews
COH 1.7 Patch
LOTRO the game so far
May 27th
Posted a little bit on my lotro site on The Game So Far.
Update: Haven’t mentioned this here yet, but there is a nice LOTRO podcast at ringcast.org.
