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  • Haven’t talked about Ravaged in a long while. A few weeks ago they had a trending Reddit post where players were talking about how much they loved the game, only thing was that the number of players was a tad low. Looks like the Ravaged devs have tried to push the word out a bit by letting Steam players play...0January 12, 2013

    Ravaged Free this weekend on Steam

    Haven’t talked about Ravaged in a long while. A few weeks ago they had a trending Reddit post where players were talking about how much they loved the game, only thing was that the number of players was a tad low. Looks like the Ravaged devs have tried to push the word out a bit by letting Steam players play…

  • Big thanks to [NJP] Highpants for inspiring this article and supplying tips and the iron-sight images. Congrats! After weeks of grinding the tens of thousands of RP’s to buy that dream Assault Rifle, you finally get to use it in game. What? You’re disappointed that it’s not the mass fragging machine you thought it was.  Well, before you sell it...0January 8, 2013

    Ghost Recon Online Tips: Assault Rifle Upgrades

    Big thanks to [NJP] Highpants for inspiring this article and supplying tips and the iron-sight images. Congrats! After weeks of grinding the tens of thousands of RP’s to buy that dream Assault Rifle, you finally get to use it in game. What? You’re disappointed that it’s not the mass fragging machine you thought it was.  Well, before you sell it…

  • Hi guys, hope everyone has been well and that you are having a good holiday season — it’s been a while since I did the blog thang…sowwy. RL has been soaking up all my time as you may have guessed. As for gaming, I see from my Steam stats that a lot of the old timers here at BASHandSlash.com are...1December 29, 2012

    A Buyer’s Guide to Assault rifles in Ghost Recon Online

    Hi guys, hope everyone has been well and that you are having a good holiday season — it’s been a while since I did the blog thang…sowwy. RL has been soaking up all my time as you may have guessed. As for gaming, I see from my Steam stats that a lot of the old timers here at BASHandSlash.com are…

  • In this article, SeanPwnery looks at the upcoming 7.5 patch from Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks.   WoT Patch 7.5 SeanPwnery Well, here we are a couple of weeks removed from the 2012 Olympic games in London, England. The finishing touches are being made to the arenas, and the British Military are ramping up security on a prodigious scale. In an...2July 15, 2012

    WoT 7.5 Patch

    In this article, SeanPwnery looks at the upcoming 7.5 patch from Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks.   WoT Patch 7.5 SeanPwnery Well, here we are a couple of weeks removed from the 2012 Olympic games in London, England. The finishing touches are being made to the arenas, and the British Military are ramping up security on a prodigious scale. In an…

  • An interesting patch is up and coming from Wargaming.net for their F2P tank shooter, World of Tanks (WoT). New game modes In addition to the Base Capture gametype now featured in pub-play, two new modes have been added: Assault and Encounter (KoTH). Here are the descriptions straight from the Patch notes: Assault: one team defends the only base, the second...0June 15, 2012

    WoT 7.4 Patch

    An interesting patch is up and coming from Wargaming.net for their F2P tank shooter, World of Tanks (WoT). New game modes In addition to the Base Capture gametype now featured in pub-play, two new modes have been added: Assault and Encounter (KoTH). Here are the descriptions straight from the Patch notes: Assault: one team defends the only base, the second…

  • With Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Online (GRO) Closed Beta “offline” for the past two weeks, I haven’t been playing any shooters at all — third or first person variety. Sure, I know the servers have been temporarily shut down awaiting the next phase of the Beta, but  GRO PR and its devs have been unusually silent. I suspect the silence has...0June 10, 2012

    Ghost Recon Online Phase III Beta

    With Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Online (GRO) Closed Beta “offline” for the past two weeks, I haven’t been playing any shooters at all — third or first person variety. Sure, I know the servers have been temporarily shut down awaiting the next phase of the Beta, but  GRO PR and its devs have been unusually silent. I suspect the silence has…

  • Just when I started to really sink my teeth into the Closed Beta action in Ghost Recon Online (GRO), the new F2P TPS from Ubisoft, the game’s devs are shutting it down for a few weeks. All planned of course…the game’s devs will retool the game in the next three-four weeks, after which time the third phase of the CB...2May 14, 2012

    Ghost Recon Online Phase 3 Closed Beta

    Just when I started to really sink my teeth into the Closed Beta action in Ghost Recon Online (GRO), the new F2P TPS from Ubisoft, the game’s devs are shutting it down for a few weeks. All planned of course…the game’s devs will retool the game in the next three-four weeks, after which time the third phase of the CB…

  • It seems like yesterday, but it was way back in October of last year that we reported on the Danish indie-studio, Reto-Moto and it’s ambitious new project, the F2P browser-based Heroes & Generals (B&S article). Heroes & Generals (H&G) was going to be a free to play online FPS with a twist. That twist embodied a strategic Multiplayer Campaign overlay...0May 10, 2012

    Heroes & Generals Pre Beta

    It seems like yesterday, but it was way back in October of last year that we reported on the Danish indie-studio, Reto-Moto and it’s ambitious new project, the F2P browser-based Heroes & Generals (B&S article). Heroes & Generals (H&G) was going to be a free to play online FPS with a twist. That twist embodied a strategic Multiplayer Campaign overlay…

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  • There was a time when I actually looked forward to playing online. Whether it was FPS, or flight sims, frankly any multiplayer game, I could look forward to a competitive atmosphere with reasonably well-behaved players — even in random pub games. It was frankly unusual to have an exceptionally bad experience interacting with fellow PC gamers. I’m not saying that...

    Flaming 2.0

    Posted on June 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
    There was a time when I actually looked forward to playing online. Whether it was FPS, or flight sims, frankly any multiplayer game, I could look forward to a competitive atmosphere with reasonably well-behaved players — even in random pub games. It was frankly unusual to have an exceptionally bad experience interacting with fellow PC gamers. I’m not saying that...

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