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style="font-style: italic;">It’s
fall premier
week, and some of our favorite TV shows are back for another round of
scanline escapism. This week also marks the premier of one of this
fall’s hottest PC titles as well, and I’m not
necessarily
talking about the one with chocobos. This particular title, you see, is
“socially responsible.” Shockingly, Ten Ton Hammer
also
aspires to this ever-so-lofty title as well in today’s
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Socially Responsible.
The
Pulse
You vote with what you
view at Ten Ton Hammer, and the
result
is the Ten Ton Pulse (
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/thepulse/">What
is The Pulse?).
Today's
top 5 Pulse results:
-
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow">World
of Warcraft - href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/eq2">Everquest 2
-
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/99">Lord
of the Rings Online - href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/">EVE Online
-
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ddo">Dungeons and
Dragons Online
Biggest
movers today:
-
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ffxiv">Final
Fantasy XIV
- UP 4
to
#17 -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/183">Guild
Wars 2
- down 2
to
#11 style="text-decoration: underline;"> -
style="text-decoration: underline;">
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/32">Tabula
Rasa
- UP 2
to
#12
-
size="-1">7/27
- href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/2461"
target="_blank">Need
for Speed World
(release) -
size="-1">7/27
- href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/starcraft2" target="_blank">StarCraft
II: Wings of Liberty
(release) -
size="-1">8/17
- href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/140">City
of Heroes: Going Rogue (release) -
size="-1">8/18
- href="http://everquest2.com/free_to_play">EverQuest
II Extended (release) -
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;">9/7
- size="-1"> href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/aion">Aion:
Assault on Balaurea (free
expansion)
Releases
-
size="-1">September
30, 2010 - href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ffxiv" target="_blank">Final
Fantasy XIV size="-1">
(release) -
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;">October
26, 2010
- href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/170">LEGO
Universe (release)
-
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;">November
2, 2010
- href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/1407">DC
Universe Online (release)
size="-1">Upcoming
Events
-
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;">10/5 -
10/8 - href="http://www.gdconline.com/">GDC
Online -
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;">10/8 -
10/10 - href="http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/">New
York Comic Con -
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;">10/22 -
10/23 - href="http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcon/?rhtml=y" target="_blank">BlizzCon -
size="-1">
style="font-weight: bold;"> 3/24
-
3/26 (2011) - href="http://fanfest.eveonline.com/" target="_blank">CCP
FanFest
alt="World of Warcraft PlayerScore"
src="http://images.tentonhammer.com/misc/PlayerScore/2010/PlayerScore_092010.jpg">
What's
your PlayerScore? World of
Warcraft players, find out at
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/playerscore">playerscore.com.
Loading...The pretzels to your
MMO gaming beer.
Make sure to set your DVRs, folks, fall premier week is upon
us.
Returning favorites like The Mentalist, Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock,
Castle, The Office, the CSIs and the NCISs all begin a new season this
week. Quirky newcomers like the Hawaii Five-O remake, $#*! My
Dad
Says (they should have commissioned a
style="font-style: italic;">WoW
13 year old – shouldn’t
“S#*!” be
something more like “$#!†“ -
I’ve heard
my dad say that one a few times), as well as The Event, and J.J.
Abrams’s break from must-see television: Under Covers
(I’m
hoping my antipathy isn’t justified) also air their pilots
this
week.
One premier is the apple of my eye this week, and it has nothing to do
with decimating my carefully cultivated DVR collection of Deadliest
Catch episodes.
style="font-style: italic;">Civilization V
dawns this Tuesday, and the emperor… no, deity of turn-based
strategy has returned.
style="font-style: italic;">Civ V
is one of the few games I’d buy, play, and relentlessly
defend
even if it proved to be as fun as mowing wet grass. I’m an
unapologetic
style="font-style: italic;">Civ
fanboy; I
love the history, the diplomacy, the scope, and I especially love the
fact I can alt-tab out to answer an email or IM and my enemies will
wait patiently for me to return.
That’s my list, but 2K Games has another features list, and
what’s the most interesting option on the
href="http://www.direct2drive.com/9620/product/Buy-Sid-Meier%E2%80%99s-Civilization-V-Digital-Deluxe-Edition-Download">official
features list
is “Socially Responsible” – that 2K Games
is giving
$250k to education charities, with a choice of charities offered during
the install. I’m all for giving to charity and I applaud 2K
games
for making an effort – it’s a wonderful thing for
2K to
write-off - but I don’t like charity-giving thrown into the
marketing mix. Maybe it’s the Monte in me.
But if you’re into new fangled ideas like social
responsibility,
consider the following a socially responsible Loading…
segment:
If APB’s
sudden
discontinuation has you feeling down, take heart: TV-series wise,
it’s in pretty good company. More than a few one
season
wonders and perennial favorites found their way to the chopping block
prior to this fall: Law and Order, Dollhouse, Numb3rs, Cold Case,
Trauma, and Scrubs among them. (To see if your favorite show made the
cut,
href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/fall-tv-schedule-1005618.aspx">click
here).
Other fan favorites – 24, Lost, and Law and
Order, have already come to an end, though how premature, quirky,
stunty, or abrupt is still up for debate.
Discontinuations and cancellations across the entertainment industry
show that whether we’re talking games, tv series, movie
sequels
or books, they all have a lifespan, a point at which we don’t
get
any more of what we love. Maybe it’s a bigger surprise that
more
MMORPGs and video game franchises haven’t met their natural
end
(I’m looking at you, newly revitalized
style="font-style: italic;">Duke Nukem Forever).
So it’s a hodge podge montage of a Loading to start the week,
so
all topics are fair game. What new shows are you most looking forward
to? Who wins a
style="font-style: italic;">Civ
inspired
arm wrestling match: Montezuma vs. Bismarck? Katherine the Great vs.
Elizabeth I? How do you feel about using charity giving in your
marketing rollout? Discuss away in the
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=53610">Loading…
forum!
Shayalyn's Epic Thread of the
Day
From our
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=725">Guild
Wars 2 Temple of Ascension - Profession Discussion
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=52792">The
healer is dead, but will the monk class live on?
KM9K
wondered whether Guild Wars 2, which has announced that it will have no
dedicated healing classes, will still have a monk class sans healing
powers. "Personally I'd like to see the Monk class in GW2 as a sort of
Kung-Fu master," KM9K says. "So maybe in GW2 they could be some kind of
holy martial arts warrior. Do you think the Monk will make the class
roster?"
Some of our top GW2 fans have speculated. What did they
conclude? What's your conclusion?
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=52792">Go!
=====================================
Awesome
Quotes from the Epic Thread
"If
- and that's a big if in itself - they make the fading of some
professions the result of the six gods growing silent, as part of the
lore, it would be interesting if monks donned 'adventurer' armor, and
switched to their more physical aspect, coming out as a form of martial
artist class."
-
href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showpost.php?p=442159&postcount=3">Yuki
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New
and Exclusive Content
Today at Ten Ton Hammer
5 new Ten Ton Hammer
features today! 62 Ten Ton
Hammer features in September! 1017 in 2010!
PREVIEWS
LEGO
Universe Preview
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/previews/lego-universe-preview">http://www.tentonhammer.com/previews/lego-universe-preview
Fans
of the existing LEGO toys and video games are sure to fall in love all
over again with this adorable franchise once they've played the MMOG
version. In this hands-on preview, we'll cover some of the ups and
downs of our time in the LEGO Universe beta and tell you why this
kid-friendly title is sure to enchant gamers of all ages.
INTERVIEWS
Reconstructing
a Classic - A Candid Interview with SquareEnix's Sage Sundi
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ffxiv/interviews/pax-2010-sage-sundi">http://www.tentonhammer.com/ffxiv/interviews/pax-2010-sage-sundi
Whether
you love or hate Final Fantasy XIV following the open beta, you have to
admit one thing - this is a game that deliberately hasn't learned the
lessons on accessibility taught by games like World of Warcraft. To
find out why, we tracked down SquareEnix's Sage Sundi. Sage discusses
who SquareEnix had in mind while they were making FFXIV, why the game
has gone maverick on a number of interface and gameplay issues, and
what makes the game worth powering through a steep learning curve and
high minimum requirements. That and much more in
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ffxiv/interviews/pax-2010-sage-sundi">Reconstructing
a Classic - A Candid Interview with SquareEnix's Sage Sundi.
FEATURES
& GUIDES
Making
ISK By Inventing Missiles In EVE Online (Part 1)
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/guides/business/scourge-invention-1">http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/guides/business/scourge-invention-1
Think
of the mission-runners and pirate-killer of EVE Online as thirsty men
wandering the desert, and yourself the custodian of an oasis. An oasis
made of tech two missiles. In this Ten Ton Hammer guide Space Junkie
explains the first part of producing Scourge Fury Heavy Missiles,
inventing the blueprints used to make them.
WoW:
Brewfest Guide
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/guides/seasonal/brewfest">http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/guides/seasonal/brewfest
Brewfest
has arrived again in World of Warcraft, signaling the start of the two
week party. Free virtual booze, ram racing, and a new quicker boss
battle awaits players in this year's beer themed festive event. We've
got a guide to all of the quests, the dungeon encounter, achievements
and more here at Ten Ton Hammer that will make sure you're capable of
doing every event in the game, inebriated or not
Cataclysm
Shakes Up Paladin Tanking – Semi-Hardcore #4
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/editorials/semihc/vol4">http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/editorials/semihc/vol4
After
a long break from talking Paladins, it's time for the return of
Semi-Hardcore. In this issue Byron “Messiah” Mudry
provides the low
down on all the upcoming Paladin tanking changes. With Patch 4.0.1
coming soon, and Cataclysm hard on its heals, it is critical that
Paladin tanks understand the changes in store for them. This
editorial puts all the changes to key abilities, how Holy Power works,
and the new tanking rotations all in one place for your viewing
pleasure.
Today's
Top 10
-
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/previews/lego-universe-preview">
style="font-weight: bold;">LEGO Universe
Preview -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/tera/interviews/scott-hartsman-9.14.10">Deeper
into the Rift – A Q&A with style="font-weight: bold;">Rift:
Planes of
Telara’s Scott
Hartsman -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/guides/seasonal/brewfest">
style="font-weight: bold;">WoW:
Brewfest Guide -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/gw2/features/interviews/story-and-progression">The
Heart of Tyria - An Exclusive Interview on Personal Story and
Progression in style="font-weight: bold;">Guild Wars 2 -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ffxiv/interviews/pax-2010-sage-sundi">Reconstructing
a Classic - A Candid Interview with SquareEnix's Sage Sundi href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/cataclysm/zones/deepholm-preview"> style="font-weight: bold;"> -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/cataclysm/zones/deepholm-preview">
style="font-weight: bold;">WoW
Cataclysm – Deepholm Zone Preview -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorials/gamecrush-editorial">GameCrush:
Capitalizing On
Your Girl Gamer Fetish -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/rift/videos/pax10">
style="font-weight: bold;">Rift:
Planes of Telara Class
& Invasions Video Feature with
Russ Brown -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/gw2/features/faq">
style="font-weight: bold;">Guild Wars 2
FAQ -
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/aion/editorials/assault-on-balaurea-impressions">
style="font-weight: bold;">Aion:
Assault on Balaurea First Impressions
Thanks
for visiting the Ten Ton Hammer network!
- Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle and the Ten Ton Hammer team
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