June 2011 – Mana Obscura

Firelands Legendary Staff: Get Ready!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Gazimoff

Patch 4.2 is looming towards us at a steady pace, bringing with it a whole truckload of shiny new stuff for us to get stuck into. The current best guess is that it’ll be hitting live servers on 21st June in US and 22nd June in Europe, putting it at less than two weeks away.

With patch 4.2 comes the Tier 12 raiding content and the new Firelands raid instance. It’s also when the new caster Legendary staff becomes obtainable. Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest will be the single most important item of loot for almost any raiding damage-dealing caster.

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Karma As A Mechanic

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Gazimoff

Eurogamer recently did an interview of Will Wright, which I’d have missed completely if it wasn’t for a gem pointed out by Rock Paper Shotgun. It turns out that he’s working on a game with a strong karmic theme, using smartphones, tablets and Facebook as the platform.

The concept of the game is based on a short story called Maneki Neko by Bruce Stirling. Here’s what Wright had to share about Stirling’s concept:

He describes a karmic computer that’s keeping a balance of payments between different people, and causing them to interact with each other in interesting ways, to improve their lives even though they’re strangers. They earn karmic points that are redeemed by having somebody else help them.

This is all very interesting, but why is Wright’s latest facebook game so important?

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