Archive for December, 2011

  • Without a doubt or exaggeration, the most hated tank in Wargaming.net‘s tank-on-tank shooter, World of Tanks (WoT) F2P MMO is currently the Premium, Chinese Tier VIII Type 59 (T-59). There has not been a day that has gone by in the last few months without a posting on the official WoT forums calling for the removal of this tank on...

    T-59: The Most Hated Tank

    Posted on December 30, 2011 | 6 Comments
    Without a doubt or exaggeration, the most hated tank in Wargaming.net‘s tank-on-tank shooter, World of Tanks (WoT) F2P MMO is currently the Premium, Chinese Tier VIII Type 59 (T-59). There has not been a day that has gone by in the last few months without a posting on the official WoT forums calling for the removal of this tank on...

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  • Though we’re a PC shooter cast,  it’s the end of the year and on this cast we look at the whole genre of 2011 PC games. We’ll get to the FPS titles soon enough, but this year, we had a raft of non-FPS games that frankly outshone and outdid most of the shoot-em’ups. Aside from our co-hosts Chris, from the...

    FBS 3: 2011 Gaming in Review

    Posted on December 26, 2011 | 7 Comments
    Though we’re a PC shooter cast,  it’s the end of the year and on this cast we look at the whole genre of 2011 PC games. We’ll get to the FPS titles soon enough, but this year, we had a raft of non-FPS games that frankly outshone and outdid most of the shoot-em’ups. Aside from our co-hosts Chris, from the...

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  • The World of Tanks (WoT) German Tech Tree contains an exceptional and fascinating collection of armored fighting vehicles. Unsurprisingly, as a WWII military-history buff, I have more than a passing interest in the German branch of this tree. For me, the shock and awe of the Wehrmacht’s machinery echoes down the generations. It is this reputation that has me almost...

    World of Tanks: Climbing the German Tech Tree (update at WoT v7.2)

    Posted on December 23, 2011 | No Comments
    The World of Tanks (WoT) German Tech Tree contains an exceptional and fascinating collection of armored fighting vehicles. Unsurprisingly, as a WWII military-history buff, I have more than a passing interest in the German branch of this tree. For me, the shock and awe of the Wehrmacht’s machinery echoes down the generations. It is this reputation that has me almost...

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  • Zh1nt0 aka Daniel Matros, the hard-working Battlefield Community Manager was gracious enough to come on and talk with Chris, Jim and Jock today on FBS live. Zh1nt0 stopped by to give us a status check on Battlefield 3 and to talk about the year leading up to its release. It has been an exhausting 2011 and for those at DICE...

    FBS 2: Everything In-between

    Posted on December 18, 2011 | 7 Comments
    Zh1nt0 aka Daniel Matros, the hard-working Battlefield Community Manager was gracious enough to come on and talk with Chris, Jim and Jock today on FBS live. Zh1nt0 stopped by to give us a status check on Battlefield 3 and to talk about the year leading up to its release. It has been an exhausting 2011 and for those at DICE...

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  • The long-awaited Version 7 update for Wargaming.net’s freemium World of Tanks releases tonight. This was Wargaming’s official statement preceding the release: World of Tanks informs tankers that maintenance will be held on the game server starting from 21:00 PST, December 13th, until approx. 10:00 PST, December 14th, due to the release of update v.7.0. The World of Tanks game server and...

    World of Tanks version 7

    Posted on December 13, 2011 | No Comments
    The long-awaited Version 7 update for Wargaming.net’s freemium World of Tanks releases tonight. This was Wargaming’s official statement preceding the release: World of Tanks informs tankers that maintenance will be held on the game server starting from 21:00 PST, December 13th, until approx. 10:00 PST, December 14th, due to the release of update v.7.0. The World of Tanks game server and...

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  • This morning, BASHandSlash.com took the wrappers off FBS, a new live PC FPS-gaming talk show we have created. This episode, FBS 1 is the start of a new era for us in PC FPS webcasting.  On this, the inaugural show, we introduce the hosts of FBS: Chris (Xiao) from the Blackmonkeys.de, Jim (Rudedog) from FPSAdmin.com and myself, Jock from BASHandSlash.com....

    FBS 1: Back in the Saddle Again

    Posted on December 11, 2011 | 23 Comments
    This morning, BASHandSlash.com took the wrappers off FBS, a new live PC FPS-gaming talk show we have created. This episode, FBS 1 is the start of a new era for us in PC FPS webcasting.  On this, the inaugural show, we introduce the hosts of FBS: Chris (Xiao) from the Blackmonkeys.de, Jim (Rudedog) from FPSAdmin.com and myself, Jock from BASHandSlash.com....

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  • VVV’s cubed has finally come out with his frag video tribute to former CoD eSport legend rob-wiz. We’ve blogged about Rob for a very long time as he was and is an FPS eSport magician. It’s a compilation of some of Rob’s best moves both here in the North America and in Europe. The video has some quality shots. Watch...

    rob-wiz movie

    Posted on December 8, 2011 | No Comments
    VVV’s cubed has finally come out with his frag video tribute to former CoD eSport legend rob-wiz. We’ve blogged about Rob for a very long time as he was and is an FPS eSport magician. It’s a compilation of some of Rob’s best moves both here in the North America and in Europe. The video has some quality shots. Watch...

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  • Normally, I have to pay people to pat me on the back (thanks Svetlana, that massage was awesome!), but today that all changed. DICE’s community manager, Zh1nt0 made a surprise visit over to the BASH Boards and he gave us a nice little pre-Christmas present: Linkage Members of the FPS community were honored by being mentioned in the credits to...

    BF3: Back to Karkand Credit check

    Posted on December 8, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Normally, I have to pay people to pat me on the back (thanks Svetlana, that massage was awesome!), but today that all changed. DICE’s community manager, Zh1nt0 made a surprise visit over to the BASH Boards and he gave us a nice little pre-Christmas present: Linkage Members of the FPS community were honored by being mentioned in the credits to...

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  • The gaming press was all abuzz over the announcement from marketer-extraordinaire, Dusty Welch. The attention he was given was not surprising, after all, Welch helped move over $3B in product while he was Senior Vice President and Head of Publishing at Activision and that kind of success will get you noticed. Of the three billion, two billion came from leading...

    U4iA Games

    Posted on December 3, 2011 | 2 Comments
    The gaming press was all abuzz over the announcement from marketer-extraordinaire, Dusty Welch. The attention he was given was not surprising, after all, Welch helped move over $3B in product while he was Senior Vice President and Head of Publishing at Activision and that kind of success will get you noticed. Of the three billion, two billion came from leading...

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