The fall large set has been announced, it’s called Innistrad and the tagline is “Horror Lurks Within.” The announcement has a new teaser image of black-aligned planeswalker Liliana Vess. I’m stoked on the possibility of a horror-flavored MTG set. That’s like chocolate + peanut butter!

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Trailer for an upcoming game, Dead Island. Tells you little to nothing about the game itself, but it’s an awesome little movie.

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Time for another midnight MTG pre-release tourney! The twist this time is that players have to choose a faction, Mirran or Phyrexian, and will get different sealed product based on the chosen faction. I’m hoping to do multiple events and try out both options.

My first impression is that the Phyrexian sealed pools are probably going to be more powerful, on a baseline, than the Mirran pools. I hope the infect mechanic doesn’t just rape everyone to death!

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Bryan and Wes, Wave, Steve, and myself played Red Dead Redemption for a few hours tonight. First poker, then Free Roam.

I’m sure we’ll all be talking about the poker tourney, as well as all the bets that were  made and lost soon, but I wanted to mention something awesome. As anyone who has played RDR knows, if you max out on multiplayer, you unlock the mythical “Zebra Donkey”. I never actually thought I’d see one as you have to play like a zillion hours to get it.

Well, Steve, Bryan, and myself got the funny idea to steal a stagecoach and ride it through McFarlane’s Ranch. The ranch, unbeknownst to us at the time, was populated with about 7 Level 50 players. I had never seen a group of L50 players this big before. Our plan was to suicide bomb them, Al Qaeda style, by ramming the stagecoach into their group as Steve dropped dynamite. The plan backfired as Steve was gunned down immediately and we were summarily executed after getting about 10 feet within the town borders. This group then mocked us by stealing our coach and driving it around, no doubt laughing their asses off. We decided to take on this giant group of expert players. Just the three of us, in dramatic bid to steal back our coach…

Things weren’t going well. We were getting picked off by snipers and shot up by Buffalo rifles. Then, as I  was sneaking around the back of the town trying to get behind one of them….I saw it. It was just there, hitched to a post. A Zebra Donkey. Something only the level 50 characters could obtain. So what did I do? I did what any self-respecting online player would do. I stole it and high tailed the fuck out of town, basking in the glow of the Zebra Donkey. I then had Bryan and Steve meet me on a hill, where they took turns riding the mythical Zebra Donkey, which is blazing fast. We then decided to ride through town, all three of us, with the Zebra Donkey, the ultimate middle finger. You may have stolen our stagecoach, but we got your donkey.

It was quite dramatic, the three of us blazing through town. I can only imagine the reaction on their faces as we rushed towards them. It didn’t take long for the hail of bullets to gun us down. But we didn’t mind.

We had ridden the Zebra Donkey.

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I might have harped on about Killing Floor once or twice (I don’t work for Valve, honest). They have just released a Christmas map, set in evil Santa’s workshop. It’s pretty awesome! I urge any PC gamers to check it out, it is an awesome multi-player horror survival game. It’s usually pretty cheap, but maybe wait for the inevitable Steam Christmas sale when it will be mere pennies.

Check out the trailer:

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New MTG set coming at the end of January, the official site has a preview art gallery up. Looks cool to me!

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It’s time for the next MTG pre-release! Our shops here in Lincoln have jumped on the midnight tourney bandwagon and I couldn’t be more excited. Staying up all night in a comic book shop and digging into a new game with a bunch of fun folks is a total blast.

I’ll be heading to Comic World here in Lincoln tonight, and probably HobbyTown tomorrow to catch another event. Send me good vibes so that I open some sick bombs!

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About 4 times per year, a new Magic: The Gathering set is released and I can’t help myself from posting a bit about it. Spoilers for the new set, Scars of Mirrodin, have started coming out and it’s looking pretty cool. Poison counters? Blast from the past, dude! I’m gonna poison the sh*t outta you. Pre-releases are September 25-26.

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