Last weekend, Diablo 3 player DarkOne watched helplessly as his 231-hour-old, level 60 wizard dropped dead, assassinated by a strange and unavoidable glitch. Huge red numbers began spooling out of him like bloody confetti before he flopped to the sand, pointlessly defeated. You can watch the video below if you'd like to try figure out how it happened, though it won't be of much comfort to DarkOne. He was playing Hardcore mode, in which death means just that: your character is permanently destroyed, confined to the history books as soon as you perish. Surely that's the sort of trauma that would have most players reaching for the uninstall button? Well not quite, because by the next day DarkOne had hit level 32 with a new barbarian. "Hardcore, of course," he clarifies.Read and Comment
The sun is setting on The Wall, followed by the comet that signalled the return of the dragons (or R'hllor, depending on your beliefs). I can't see the end of the astonishing mix of ice and wood and stone that protects Westeros from the Others: it vanishes into the distance. I'm so high up that Castle Black below, that seemed so big when I arrived, is hazy and distant and small. I've had to turn off the clouds to see the ground. Someone's finally built Westeros, the nasty fantasy world that the books at TV series A Song of Ice And Fire is set in, the way the fans want it built, and you can visit it in Minecraft.
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The Old Republic may have usurped Star Wars: Galaxies as the chosen one, but there are still hundreds of fans of the original Jedi MMO screaming, “These graphics are too good!" or, “It’s just not the same!" or, “I HATE CHANGE" at the screen. SWGEmu is an attempt to placate these fans by reverse engineering Star Wars: Galaxies’ servers.Read and Comment
I'd heard about it on the quiet: a Minecraft server with no rules, no resets, no hope. A place that people can use however they choose. 2b2t does exist, and it is a place of hostile users who drop the N and F words in chat, and build landscape-dominating swastikas. Yet, in spite of the callousness there are other people out there, turning the cracked landscape over and welcoming weary travellers. I set out to find them.
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You like Minecraft, but you don't want to play with people you don't know. It's understandable: you can tell your friends to "eff off" a lot more comfortably than a stranger. The easiest way to do so is to host your own server on your own PC. Here's how.
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