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Opera 9.5 Released! Firefox 3 on June 17!

Opera 9.5 has gone live!  You can go to their official website and download it now (like what I’m doing as I’m typing this).

Also of great browser importance is the official announcement of Firefox 3′s release date, which is June 17! Spread Firefox is encouraging everyone to download Firefox on release day to help [...]

Nomad Gaming Log 2008.06/12

Happy Independence Day, Philippines!

To slowly ease out on the D&D wagon, today’s collection are geek and gaming related.

Somewhat Recent Gaming News

Magic: The Gathering Duel Decks for November – Unlike the new MtG Theme Decks, this one will be complete 60 card decks.  Probably like the Elves vs Goblins thing they released a while back.
Alpha Point: [...]

First Annual Descent: Journeys in the Dark Figure Painting Contest

Fantasy Flight Games is launching an annual figure painting contest for their game Descent: Journeys in the Dark. Every year, FFG will select a figure from the game as the subject for the contest. Contestants should then paint the said figure, take pictures, then email the pics to FFG.

For this year’s contest, they [...]

What D&D Character Are You?

Still on the Dungeons and Dragons 4E wagon, here’s a test to determine your D&D race, alignment, and class.

I ended up being a …

Chaotic Good Human Fighter!

You can see the breakdown below. A bit surprising that my Fighter side beat out my Monk side (it’s probably my role-play/gaming vs actual personality), but [...]

Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Out Last Saturday

Well at least it was Saturday in the Philippines, since 2008.06/06 in the US was a Friday. Although I’ve role-played with some friends as a wee-wee-child, I’ve never really role-played D&D. It’s still of great interest to me as a pillar of RPG design, so any evolution it will take will always be of [...]

Age of Conan Patch Shrinks Characters’ Boobs! Fanboys Cry Outrage!

I first got wind of the news from Crunchgear. Man, Age of Conan just came out last May and already it’s providing a platform for “unusual” news!

“… how can you have realistic medieval battle sim without large-breasted warrior women?”

ROTFL!!!
[teary-eyed] Oh man… that comment made my day!

Other comments on the issue:

various comments from [...]

Changes to Magic: The Gathering Starting with Shards of Alara

I guess WotC has more changes in mind this year aside from upgrading D&D.

WotC announced quite a lot of changes to Magic: The Gathering starting with the upcoming “Shards of Alara” block. MtG’s head designer Mark Rosewater talks about these changes.

A quick list of the changes:

Sets will have fewer cards
A new “mythic rare” rarity type [...]

Nomad Features Log 2008.06/03

No news collection for today. Quite a collection of features from around, though.

Doodads

Hands-on with the MSI Wind ultra-portable
Keep Your Bum And The Earth Cool
Convert Your Gas Mower to Solar

Features

Generation Y Has No Culture
Innovative Shipping Container Homes and Offices
Can Social Media Advertising Work?

Lists

20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs
10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo [...]

Nomad News Log 2008.06/02, Video-Games, Science, Misc

News

Fredric J. Baur (1918 – 2008): Designer of the Pringles Tube
Set a Guinness World Record, Enjoy a Better Web!
Barnes & Noble considering buying Borders

Video-Game News

Capcom confirms Street Fighter IV coming to Xbox 360, PS3, and the PC! Yes, you read that right, it’s coming to the PC… strangely!  Even more strange, Wii and arcade ports were not [...]