I can really only take credit for drawing today’s strip into comic format… the events told within are pretty much taken word for word from Dragon Age 2. Dragon Age 2 has these quests… I’ve started calling them “padding quests”… they aren’t story quests, and they aren’t even fetch quests. Basically, along your travels, you’ll […]
I made the decision to play through Dragon Age 2 as a good guy. I would be compassionate, helpful, I would be righteous and just, and I would be friends with everyone. It actually ended up working out alongside playing on Nightmare mode, because I really couldn’t afford to turn down any offer of XP. […]
In light of my adventure into Pokemon, I’ve been receiving some very helpful emails from readers (thanks everyone!) with a “noob’s guide” to some of the more basic gameplay elements I will (apparently) need to be aware of. I admit, I’m intrigued by the idea that there is a somewhat deep and complex strategy element […]
May is drawing ever closer, and with it, our sixth Digital Overload event! If you haven’t been following #DigitalOverload (you should be), there have been a lot of developments over the past few weeks. We’ve announced tournaments and opened up registration for them! If you’ve purchased your ticket, you can now log into the website […]
Less than a week to go until Dragon Age 2. I played through the demo twice, once on the Xbox, once on my PC, attempting to decide which platform I wanted to buy the game for. Normally, this sort of decision would have been a no-brainer… large RPGs like Fallout 3, Oblivion, Dragon Age, etc, […]
I spent the first half of yesterday trying to finish up this artwork in time for the RIFT headstart launch. I spent the second half of yesterday having a blast in RIFT. I was fortunate to have no trouble logging in, having jumped on right after the servers unlocked. Other people were not so fortunate. […]
Rift is launching soon, and I’m all set to go for the headstart this Thursday. I’ve mostly refrained from playing in any of the beta events over the past few weeks. I knew I wanted to play from my earlier experiences with the game, and so after that decision was made, it didn’t make much […]
Here’s your daily allotment of zombie gore and tearjerker all rolled into one.
I caught this on Kotaku over the weekend. Maybe you saw it… maybe you couldn’t find shit trying to navigate Gawker’s new layout. Either way, it’s a short demo video they grabbed at the Hasbro showcase, showing off the new “Battleship Live”. I love board games. I love technology. And yet, I’m wary when the […]
There’s a rumor going around that in the wake of the PS3 root key hack perpetrated by George Hotz (among others), Sony is considering implementing the use of “registration keys” for its games. Nothing is confirmed yet, and Sony has said they are simply “looking at options”. Now to be clear, I fully support the […]
Our early pre-reg pricing for Digital Overload tickets will be going away in a few days, so you don’t have much time left to lock in your attendance at the lowest possible price. You should get on that, because this is Digital Overload 2011… it will be the last Digital Overload with two ones in […]
Today marks the last day of Winter-een-mas 2011! I trust you’ve all attempted to cram as much gaming into the past seven days as was humanly possible. Remember that today is the last day to take advantage of Ubisoft’s generous 30% off PC download titles for Winter-een-mas sale! Make sure you check out what they’re […]
Happy Winter-een-mas, everyone! I hope you’ve all got some big plans for this week. Perhaps you’ve set aside some time to play a new game, or dig up an old favorite to re-experience Maybe you’re having some friends over for some multiplayer, or you’ve scheduled something with your online guild. Whatever your plans, I wish […]
Preparations for Digital Overload 2011 are in full swing, and as such we’re making new announcements regularly, so make sure you visit the website and/or follow @digitaloverload on Twitter to keep up on all the latest news. We’ve announced the first of our hotels, a room block at the Radisson which you can now reserve […]
Sheesh, it’s hard to believe last week even happened, I was so busy. I didn’t end up grabbing DC Universe Online on Tuesday. Not because I don’t think it’s a good game… quite the contrary. I had a lot of fun during the beta, and had planned to buy it on release. However, then I […]
It’s that time of the year again, and the folks over in our media/advertising department have put together a little survey to pick your brains and find out what makes you tick. Essentially, it just helps us make sure that any advertising and contests we run on the website is related to shit you guys […]
We’ve launched the new Digital Overload website, and over the next few weeks we’ll be filling it with all sorts of information about hotels and travel, tournaments and our sponsors. In the meantime, you can grab your ticket for a limited-time low price of $45 for the weekend. On top of making sure you get […]
I played a little bit of the RIFT beta event this weekend. The game has another couple months of development before launch, but it’s looking pretty decent so far. Character creation is good… not the best I’ve seen, but plenty adequate. I’m really intrigued by their Soul system, which appears do allow a pretty healthy […]
I know we’ve been really quiet about this for a while, but Digital Overload is returning for 2011 in an all new way. New logo, new venue, new city, new dates! That’s right, Digital Overload will in Baltimore Maryland this year on Memorial Day weekend! I know that moving the event will mean that certain […]
Over the holidays my future sister-in-law brought out the Battlestar Galactica board game from Fantasy Flight games. Now, I love Fantasy Flight Games. Ninety-five percent of my board games are FFG, and I’ve never known them to make a bad product. Still, when I first heard about the BSG board game, I was skeptical (probably […]
During the pre-holiday rush and then Christmas itself, I did not have the time to finish a comic for Monday, so I decided to just take the day off and so that we could be with our loved ones. Now that we’re engaged, my fiancee and I are making more an effort to spend time […]
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Today I’m going to tell you a little story about yesterday (Tuesday, for those keeping track), a day that was pretty crummy all day long but had a fairly epic happy ending. As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve got a great little guild over on the Sentinels server in WoW. As you also may be aware, […]
A little while ago I posted a preview trailer for LA Noire, which featured some amazing facial animations in cutscenes. There’s now a video out showing more footage, as well as how they accomplished capturing these actors in the game. I really think this is going to set the bar and change what we expect […]