EVE Online isn’t a game for everyone. But if you haven’t checked it out in a while, you might not know they did a graphics upgrade. EVE always looked pretty good for what it was: ships flying through space. But now it is breathtaking. Check this out, and make sure you switch to HD and go full screen (you might need to actually go to YouTube to do so)…
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Ok, I’m currently sitting here, listening to this audio sent from a friend of mine over at Certified Sound. Listen to the whole thing if you can, the payoff at the end will make you smile.
This is audio of an EVE Online playing calling in to a phone sex line.
Enjoy.
This week we start to settle back into a somewhat normal snarky schedule, covering both Dragon*Con MMO goodness and things going on in the MMO world. We also managed to catch a bit of news before everyone headed to AGDC this week (Austin Game Developer’s Conference) to discuss the state of the industry. Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph.
It also looks like the new engineering is working nicely in terms of flipping these casts over faster. We’re going to aim for once a week, but we’d love to hear from you in regards to show times. Would you prefer SnarkCast be around 30 minutes, or is the current hour-long chunk good for you? Be sure to let us know in the comments!
Note: If the above audio is choppy for you, please consider downloading it to your local machine before listening. We’ve made the file significantly smaller than before, so it should come down pretty quickly.
As always, full show notes are after the break!
Thanks so much to all of the fans who came out to see us at Dragon*Con this year. We are still in the process of braindumping and writing “after action reports” so that we retain all of the information and lessons that we have learned at this year’s convention. Some highlights.
We WTFPWNED! the old Thriller Dance record set at William & Mary (Bill and Buffy) University. They had just over 200 people dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Dragon*Con had over 900.
Comic-Con took the record for largest charity blood drive from us…briefly. We retook the record with over 1900 units of blood donated. DC*MMO’s own “Horde vs. Alliance” blood drive saw 250 donors step up and bleed for a good cause. My most sincere thanks to everyone who gave. (even if it did make you a cheap drunk for the rest of the weekend… Don’t think we didn’t notice.)
50 panels and events on the MMO track this year, and hardly a “bomb scare” in the bunch. Thank you to our guests and panelists for making this year’s DC*MMO track such a success.
Felicia Day is amazingly cool, and apparently had a really good time at Dragon*Con. Thank you Felicia, and thank you fans for showing her a good time this year. Felicia screened all of seasons 1 and 2 as well as the first episode of season 3 which debuted last week just before the convention started.
Thank you Funcom for throwing a killer party on Friday night!
Thank you Sony Online Entertainment for throwing a killer… well… all day Sunday!
Thank you CCP, Cartoon Network, Wardog Studios, Artix Entertainment, Hi-Rez Studios, Massively.com, and WoW.com for hosting excellent panels and events for us. We look forward to working with you again next year.
Thank you, WoWTCGLoot.com, NCSoft, iZ3D, and Turbine for donating prizes for us to give away this year.
Most of all, thank you to my staff of unpaid volunteers who busted their humps for me all year long in order to pull this weekend off.
My assistant directors, Trevor Legg and Krystalle Voecks. I could not have done this without you two by my side to keep me sane and remind me of all of the things that could have slipped through the cracks. Trevor’s ideas and ability to think creatively (I hate the term “outside the box”) and Krystalle’s organizational skills and industry knowledge were both absolutely essential to our success. I thank you both.
To the rest of the gang, Michael McGreevy, Rafe Brox, Ian Wickenkamp (I didn’t forget you this year!!!), Jonna Crane, Doug Keller, Scott Blanks, Jay & Sheryl Sturrock, Sam Levine (Happy Birthday!) and all of the folks who stuck around and chipped in to help us even though they didn’t have to… You have my thanks, and that doesn’t even begin to cover it. I put you guys through a pretty brutal wringer this year, and you all came through shining brightly. Rest well, you have earned it.
Planning for Dragon*Con 2010 starts next week. 
-Grim
You may see this plastered somewhere around the convention. When I tell you that we can always use creative talent, this is why. I actually had to do this bit of photoshoppery myself.
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