I come to you this week plugging Ikarium. This game is like a Civilization MMO. It is a free web browser game. No client, no downloads, no payments. The game is kind of slow in the beginning but once you complete your first colony it really takes off. One piece of advice, keep restarting (make a new player) until you get on a colony with either wine or marble. All other resources are kind of useless to you in the beginning (sulfur and crystal glass). You do need a legitimate email address for each player you create however as an activation email is sent to the account. But you are able to use hotmail, gmail, etc. I definitely recommend this game, it is wicked amounts of fun! Futhermore, because everything takes time to mature in the game, your decisions are limited to 1 or 2 active choices in the game per hour. So it’s a nice small thing you can have open in your web browser while multi-tasking doing more important things. By the way, I’m playing as Yojo on the Gamma server.

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I came across a Ragnarok Online (RO) Sound Track remix at the OC Remix website. The OC Remix is a place where musicians and DJ’s who have remixed video game sound tracks can host and link their work. Both the Chrono Symphonic and FF7 Lifestream were phenomenally remixed scores. In the RO Hybridism remix, my favorite songs were as follows:
Samurai Discotheque; Out of Curiosity; Brassy Road; Ancient Groover; Jumping Dragon; Nano East

Ragnarok Online 2 (screen shot):

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It seems like my last post was just yesterday, but since then I have accumulated so many more links and had to post them for sharing. First, as many of you know Wizards of the Coast has done a Podcast where Tycho, Gabe (from PA) and Scott (from pvp) are playing dungeons and dragons. The original 8 hour recording will be broken up into segments (1st, 2nd released so far) and released on Fridays. Each release will be accompanied by a comic with one panel done by Gabe and the other by Scott.
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