Are you a fan of EVE Online? Do you consider yourself worthy of a challenge? Well, we have some good news for you, brave fellow. The EVE Alliance Tournament VIII Signups have officially started. What does that mean? It means you can now enter and fight for honor, prove to everyone how skilled you are in the tough universe of EVE. What do you need? 2 billion ISK, to start with. In order to sign up, you need to deposit them in the wallet of the character ‘CCP Alliance Tournament’ and you must enter your ’<your alliance full name> Entry Fee’ as the reason for the deposit. You and your team will then be officially on the list of alliances to fight. Signups will be closed on 23 April, so be quick. More information is available here.

No, readers, we aren’t adding another podcast to our line-up (at least not for the time being). Rather, we’d like to highlight one that you may or may not already listen to. Not just because they’re good folks, but because they were kind enough to feature Lore Hound on their latest episode!

I joined Nibuca and Fimlys of the Twisted Nether Blogcast for nearly two-and-a-half hours of quality conversation! Now, I like my podcasts long, but if you’re short on time, be sure to at least listen to the first hour or so of content to get the most of your Lore Hound fix (or better yet, break up your listening sessions, and hear the whole thing).

I talk about such things as Lore Hound (duh), the potential future of the site, my own personal experience with the game, and what I’m sure many long-time fans have been wondering: what happened to Project Lore. Now, I couldn’t go into too many details, but I did try to talk about things from my own perspective.

So, there should be plenty of interesting and juicy details to digest after listening to the podcast! One thing I should note, though, is that the Lore Hound Haiku Contest is referenced towards the end of the episode. That contest is now over (I recorded this about a week-and-a-half ago), and prizes have, in fact, been passed out.

Before I give you the appropriate links, I’d like to thank my wonderful hosts again for the opportunity to appear on their show!

Here are your options:

• Go to the iTunes page.
• Download the episode directly.
• Stream it from the official Twisted Nether Blogcast site.

Happy listening!

The little independent MMOG that could just debuted its latest State of the Game address.  You can read it here before diving into my thoughts.

The address started off exactly where it needed to, with Lee Hammock’s departure from the Lead Game Designer position.  To my knowledge, his replacement has not been named.  The official address made no mention to a successor, interim or permanent.  That was fairly shocking to me.  Many players view Lee Hammock as the heart and soul of Fallen Earth, reasonable or not.  Without “The Beard Man,” the company has no public face – shrouded behind a thick face mane, mind you – and subscribers may start to get worried.

No Fallen Earth, LLC, my fears have not been assuaged.  The pathetic attempt to distract me with information on the upcoming patch will not work!  I am strong.  Stop dangling those shiny things in front of me!  Wait, Clan Wars you say?

Hit the jump to see if iTZKooPA can regain his train of thought. Read more…

In order to make current and future experiences with Dragon’s Call a bit more pleasant, the EverDream team is preparing to launch a new game server. The New Dragon’s Call server is launching tomorrow, April 13th, 2010, at EST 21:00. In addition, the EverDream team is also holding a series of captivating game events, such as a leveling contest, refining tournament and guild war.

In addition, the new instanced dungeon for the game is now up – the Sandwalker’s Den is awaiting brave adventurers to venture inside and discover its treasures, glory and dangers.