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Vader Visits The Troops And Other Tales
Bungie will be making a lot of changes at the home office, doubling their staff to ramp up for Halo 3. Changes for fans of the City of Heroes comic are coming as well, as NCSoft announced early this week that they were signing Top Cow publishing to take over the book. There will be plenty of announcements next week at the Game Developer's Conference, where Nintendo will be discussing their plans for Network gaming. MMOGs are, of course, the most networked of games and there is lots of MMO-related news to share this week. Final Fantasy XI players have a new Vana'diel Tribune to peruse, and if you'd like to share some stories the folks over at videogamestudies.com are interested in your characters. Not a new story, but one worth sharing is the republishing of The Big Scam. The Eve Online tale of real-life scammery and backstabbery is well worth a read. Sharing online tales is fun, and 1up.com has excellent journals about their online adventures. Warcraft Stories, My Life in Vana'diel, Memoirs of an Urban Vigilante, and Hooked on Evercrack were all updated this week. Finally, Corpnews has a bright note from the world of Star Wars Galaxies to share as Lord Vader took some time to visit the troops in the field. Update: 03/07 17:18 GMT by Z : As CapeMonkey pointed out, I had the wrong barnyard animal in talking about the CoH Comic.
Sure, focus on Vader visiting the troops... I was in the town of Anchorhead on Tattooine when Princess Leia arrived to rally the rebel forces stationed there. Where's that press coverage?
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I don't believe they edited me out! I was the trooper in the back row saying "who the hell is that guy in black?"
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The hundred or so people who are on simultaniously at any time of day running around and killing stuff and not saying a word to each other might disagree with you.
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For a second there, when I very first read "Vader Visits The Troops" I thought, oh my god, slashdot really went overboard with their left leaning stance.
I really thought that "Lord Vader took some time to visit the troops in the field" meant that George Lucas had stopped by SOE and didn't bother clicking on the link. When I saw the post linking to a dozen photos of the event I thought it was kind of weird why someone would take that many pictures of George Lucas.
Of course, who knows - maybe the Darth Vader that visited in-game was George Lucas?
"Lord Vader took some time to visit the troops in the field. .."
Let me know when slave Leah shows up. Raarrrrrr.
"I don't believe they edited me out! I was the trooper in the back row saying "who the hell is that guy in black?"
I can't believe they replaced my blaster with a walkie talkie!
"Derp de derp."
When I read "Darth Vader", I instinctively think Star Wars. But when I read only "Vader", somehow, I just can't help but think of Vader (Leon White) first.