And btw I was f’n rong
January 25, 2012
Earthrise
I wrote some crap way back about the game Earthrise, turned out I was wrong. The game sux, the developers suck and the whole concept smells russian gangsta shit.
Stay away!
I stopped smoking crack for SWTOR
December 19, 2011
OMG!
Been a long, long time since i got a game and stopped eating, stopped sleeping, stopped talking to the rest of my family.. But that’s exactly what happend when I got into the pre-release of SWTOR a week ago.
3 days after i activated my pre-release i signed up for 3 months, bought the digital deluxe edition and found myself infront of the mirrior with a full beard contemplating various reasons to call in sick for work..
I have always had a soft spot for sci-fi, and especially sci-fi mmo’s. Maybe im still hunting for that first virgin experience i had way back when i started out with mmo’s or maybe it’s just my generation growing up with Star Trek, Space: 1999, William Gibson’s Neuromancer or movies like Totall Recall. I stopped long ago trying to understand why. Fact is you have to reach a pretty high standard to impress me with a sci-fi mmo. SWTOR did.
The feeling and scenery is probably the most important. Sony missed the spot with Star Wars Galaxies, they made a mmo like any other and knew the money would come just because they had the franchise. Big mistake. Bioware, beeing the leeding experts on rpg, made a rpg built for online play with the goal to be extremley true to the lore. This is what makes and breaks a game like this.
The locations are spot on, when you enter Coruscant for the first time it’s jaw dropping.. The sounds, the constant streams of shuttles, ships and speeders comming and going are just amazing. The music increasing when you encounter a rouge droid, the sound of your blaster, rockets or lightsaber – it’s all just so Star Wars.
The constant battle between light and dark, the decisions you make and how they effect your characters alignment but in the same time it’s relations with your companion (or the whole crew of you ship). It’s just not that easy beeing just evil or just good – it’s like real life, sometimes you just do bad things even though you’re a good guy.. Nothing is black or white.
All this are intruduced in portions,missions, instances, companions, crafting, your own ship, mount etc. Very clever
Or as my friend “Southwest” said “OMG it’s like having my own dollhouse with dolls to play with”
Star Wars fan or not – if you like mmo’s this is a must have game. Play a character to 25 and then make up your mind. I bet you’re still there at lvl 50.
SWTOR
December 16, 2011
Been playing SWTOR for the last days, nothing hardcore just levels 1-15
- Flawless, no issues
- Missions are smooth, fun and very story driven
- Flashpoints (dunegons) are fun so far
- Very polished, game is really rdy for release (This is in fact rare theese days in new releases..)
levels 1-5
Learning the lingo, the character, moves, skills
5-10
Getting hang of teaming, exploring, hunting
10-15
At lvl 10 the real world opens up, crewskills (tradeskills) Flashpoints (Dunegons), travel, Auctionhouses, Social skills etc etc
Whatever you think of the game when you start out, don’t form your opinions before lvl 10. levels 1-10 really are just training grounds.
*edit* I’ll get som screens up ltr tonight of Blackmoore in SWTOR
Move on, nothing here to see
December 16, 2011
A dead game changes game director. Move on, nothing here to see
Today is a good day
November 8, 2011
New I8700XXKI3 firmware for Omnia 7
October 19, 2011
If you have a Samsung Omnia 7 you might experianced problems with 3G+ etc.
Problems with Omnia 7 in combination with Telia
In sweden we had serious problems with the Omnia 7 when using it with the operator Telia.
Well, since the Mango update for Wp7 it’s getting a bit better – from beeing a totally useless phone, we now can use the Omnia 7 as a phone – but now we cant sync marketplace or our skydrive on 3G+.
God news!
Seems like a solution is on the way, I just tried the latest fw I8700XXKI3 released by a french operator and things got a whole lot better. Been using this fw for the last 24h and it turned out to be a big improvement. On the downside your language is set to french and you get some operator specific programs installed after the update, but it’s easely fixed and programs can be uninstalled. You even get to keep all your settings and saved content, but i recommend a factory reset just because it’s allways fun with a freshly installed phone 
Nothing to loose
You will however void the warranty on your Omnia. In my case I have been using my HTC Throphy anyway, since the the combination Omnia 7 and Telia is totally useless as is.
So i had nothing to loose really. If you wanna try it out yourself it’s very easy to do even if a you have moderate skills in updating a phone.
remember it’s not the entire OS but only the firmware for your phone that get’s updated so i say go for it!
- Unzip the Tools in a folder then unzip the firmware (OEM.cab) in the same folder as the tools (WP7 Update Cab Sender).
- Plug in your device, wait until the Zune client starts and then close it.
- Run the the Updater and press S or B (depending on the size of your balls..)
- your phone will then reboot in download mode and update (don’t unplug it or do stupid
things with your PC during the whole process..)
So far, so good
And so far the result is much better, no calls with robot or modem voice and it seems to use 3g+ as it should for data traffic when needed. However i have a feeling the connectivity to 3g overall is a bit “hazy” and it it switches to Edge in places my HTC has “ok” 3G connectivity.. But overall im happy with the new fw and we can only hope Telia and Samsung (for unbranded) will release the updated firmware later this fall for all of us.
How To: Install Windows 8 From USB Drive
September 14, 2011
Well it’s time to test out the Windows 8 dev preview – go get it here
And you will ofc wanna make a bootable USB drive
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/
Now you need a machine to test it on – you’ll have to fix that for yourself. I dug up an a Fujitsu T5010 for the purpose. Any machine you have capable ofrunning Win 7 will do.
You might wanna Sign up for the Live Connect technical preview to to get the most out of this.
/Blackie
p.s. you could do this by using Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to, but it’s not as cool as the method above.. 
(it’s easymode so if youre just a bit unsure of what im writing about you will wanna use the tool instead)
Dead Island and Steam makes the worst release in history!
September 10, 2011
A ”kafkaesque” story
Been a while since i wrote something, but this is a story i just had to relay.
It’s a story about one of most hyped games this fall – Dead Island, the RPG zombie shooter and how companys can fuck up a gamerelease while screwing around with innocent customers – this is a truly “kafkaesque” story..
Region free?
So bare with me, the background is this – we can all agree that PC games are supposed to be region free, right? That’s one of the reasons we still carry on with our PC gaming. Region free – we can play our games anywhere on any PC as long as we pay for the game, have a Jolt Cola and masturbate alone. The same reason would be why we use cloud gaming services like steam, right? We can just remember our accountname and password and then we’re set to go on any PC anywhere?
WRONG!
Besides this The fact that the game can’t be played without a Steam account was nowhere to be found on retail websites or the retail boxes.
Steam fucking it up royally!
So back to the release – it all started out with Steam fucking it up royally by uploading the wrong version of the game to their server on a friday, people coming home from work, preordered, plans with friends in motion for the hyped co-op gameplay.. Yeah right, nothing worked out out as planned. Steam promised a swift solution that never came, duh! Thoose few who eventually could play all over the world voiced huge complaints of laggy and unfinished gameplay, comparing it with a game still in BETA.
Over 39.000 views on the now legendary steam thread
During this time most of the european countrys still were having serious problems even activating the retail provided game key. Over 39.000 views on the steam thread http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2109039 with gamers (who payed god money via various serious retailers) having problems activating their game key is allready legendary. Turns out the retailers got games intended for the eastern europe market – like that would have anything to do with anything since PC GAMES ARE IN FACT SUPPOSED TO BE REGION FREE!! Besides this, customers report getting retail boxes with no activation key and no manual – just how bad can you handle a release Deep Silver?
Deep silver probably wont release a game again – if they’re smart..
Thoose few who even got dignified with a reply from Steam, Deep Silver or their local game dealer, just got bounced between them. Steam telling the poor gamers to go to their local retailer and get the game changed to a game intendeed for the western european market, Deep Silver saying the same bullshit – like it’s the customers problem.. (and hey why not, they allready got the poor gamer-kids money) They probably have no plans to ever release a game again, (if they’re smart) and the retailers saying Steam fucked up.
” We regret any inconvenience this may have caused. Unfortunatly we have to tell you that we couldn’t register any unvalid Steam product keys through our high selling rates. The message you received occurs, if you try to activate the game which is not specifically valid for your area. In this case we and Steam can’t help you to find a solution. We would like to ask you to contact your retailer and exchange the game.”
Do you really think a paying customer gives a flying fuck to what region the game was intended for release on a friday night after a long week?!
[Edit] A funny fact is, there’s no way to see it’s intended for any region on the retail box, I just got that confirmed from a friend. So god luck with that “region shit” in court!
Paying almost 100$ for a zombie game..
So over thousands of european gamers sits around on release day with a game they can’t activate. Some of them so desperate, they buy the game all over from steam - with the result of having payed almost 100$ for zombie game.. ROFL!!
The local game dealers are the only heroes here – shame on Steam, Shame on Deep Silver!
Some gamers however found a solution, with the help of some retailers providing them with instructions on how to activate the game by VPN via hungarian proxys. http://www.gameware.at/info/space/Dead+Island+VPN+Aktivierung Theese guys has to be the ONLY heroes in this story – cuz none of the two big companys (Deep silver and Steam) have been paying any attention to the thousands of gamers - many of them teenagers who payed god money to be able to play their zombie game with friends at the friday night release. No official reply, not a single comment in the the forums. Worst of all – they are now trying to play the “blame game” – and make the customers go back to their retailer.. And remember, not a single word about the game not beeing region free pre release.
Get it here and use “demo/demo”
Activating Dead Island via proxy or VPN
That’s how you solve a problem – you fix it fast for the paying customer, then you can sit down and blame eachother for all etarnity while your customers play their game. The gamers just dont give a shit what went wrong and why should they? Would you, given the same situation?
Now there’s talk amongst the gamers they might get banned for using the method above provided by the resellers.. But to be honest, not even Steam can be so fucking stupid, pulling a stunt like that on their customers. It’s not like their alone anymore with their cloud service for games with the mighty release of Star Wars Online via Electronic Arts Origin.
On a sidenote - thoose who illegally cracked and downloaded the game from Pirate Bay etc. probably have been playing it for weeks without any problems and without any risk of getting banned. Worth thinking about.
“Requires activation over steam” - Might get you in a “kafkaesque” reality
From now on customers would be wise in demanding a “Requires activation over steam” stamp on the retail box – because with the above story as background I would think twice before I buy anything having anything to do with steam in the future.
Over and out!
/Blackie – using Origin since years back btw
Global Agenda: Free Agent
April 7, 2011
ATLANTA – April 7, 2011 — Hi-Rez Studios today announced that “Global Agenda: Free Agent”, the latest update to the Shooter MMO, will enable free-to-play access to all of the game’s current playable content and levels with no purchase required.
I stopped smoking crack for RIFT
February 25, 2011
So once again Blackmoore ventures forth into another game. This time RIFT finally comes out of Beta and into “headstart” (The offical release is 4/3 in europe and 1/3 in US).
Yet another Blackmoore, this time in RIFT
The main idea is “We make a copy of a very popular mmo and make it better, with cooler graphics, smarter gameplay and make it all totally configurable so that any player can make whatever macro, UI they want”
The game was great in Beta, the game in headstart is totally awasome. It runs smooth, looks great, handles great and most important – It’s fun!
Besides the concept of “rifts” (kinda open world raids open for anyone) it’s the little things that made me fall for RIFT troughout the Beta – Like when teaming up with your friend get the question “Your friend is in another playfield, you want to go there?”. Or the connection to twitter, where the game auto tweets your achivements and sends a screenshot. etc. etc.
The only problem now is there’s not enough servers, Withefall had over 3 hours waiting time today, and It’s the same on any server now..
Trion has to seriously fix this asap!
Besides that – this is a game any serious mmo fan has to try out for themselves tbh – so preorder now and get your head in the game!
http://eu.riftgame.com/en/
