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Firewatch: My Review

Firewatch is Better than Zelda!? I’ve been in a bit of a rut when it comes to video games, lately. I picked up a Nintendo Switch with Zelda: Breath of the Wild back in early May of this year, but I just couldn’t get into the game. I’ve been playing […]

Podcast

Procedural Metacognitive VR – Podcast Episode 30

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Welcome to Citizens of Tech, your dose of science, gaming, and general nerdery. Ethan Banks and Eric Sutphen are your hosts. And you can find all of our shows at CitizensOfTech.com. In today’s show, a new scifi virtual world, traveling to Alpha Centauri, virtual reality, thinking about thinking, and more […]

Featured Games

EverQuest Next is Dead – Officially

It’s official: EverQuest Next is Dead Rumors of its demise were said to have been greatly exaggerated, but EverQuest Next is officially dead. When I proclaimed here a year ago that EverQuest Next was dead (at least as we knew it, if not in fact) it drew the ire of many. […]

Games Technology

PS4 7th Core Unlock, 7 is more than 6!

PS4 performance getting cranked to 11… err 7, whatever. Both the Ps4 and Xbox One use 8-core AMD CPUs, both of which until recently utilized 6 cores for game resources and 2 cores for operating system workloads. The issue for Microsoft was that the Xbox One was lagging behind the PS4 […]

Games

Phinigel – No Box For You!

Phinigel, our… savior? So back in August I wrote an article about the possible non-boxing EQ progression server, and the hope I had about such a server. Well, it’s officially official now: Phinigel is upon us! The new server, will become available in just a few short weeks, on December […]

Games

EverQuest Non-Boxing Progression Server

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EverQuest Progression History Back in May of this year (2015) I did something I hadn’t done in a decade: subscribed to EverQuest. The Ragefire server was built as a Time Locked Progression Server. The quick and dirty on what the hell that means is this: A progression server is one […]