Ars Technica Measures Which Steam Games We Play, and Which We Don't

And here's a quick summary of the unplayed titles:

More in the original article, here.

Draft Time!

This week's draft.

I passed up on a fairly strong counter-draft in Round 3, which is my only anxiety: first and second picks were Shock.

Re-doing This Week's Draft

I wasn't happy about the lack of removal I had earlier in the week.  Here's B/R Aggro from the same card pool.

This week's draft

Courtesy of the Magic Draft Simulator: A R/G Sliver deck. I'm not happy with the amount of removal I drew (next to 0).

PAX East Future of PC Gaming Panel

Milk Run Structure

So far, my Shadowrun 4 campaign has largely been narrative-driven, but the players have finally transitioned into being runners. The downside of having players with limited playtime, hacking through three sessions has taken six months. I intend to expand my campaign's player base, and offer mini-sessions, possibly via roll20, called "milk runs." Here's the format I have planned for each Milk Run.

CCP Cancels WoD MMO

Sadface.  Via Gamespot:

The studio says it was "falling regretfully short" in its goals of creating an vampire-themed MMO. Following the cancellation, 56 employees at the Atlanta, Georgia studio have been laid off. Some of the team are said to have been offered other roles within the company, with the remaining staff at the studio now working on games set in the EVE universe.

Star Citizen Dogfighting Module Footage Released!

Another Magic Draft

Another Magic Simulated Draft.  This week, a BU removal-heavy deck with one real bomb (Guardian of the Ages) and two tutors to nab it.

And this is why I don't play DayZ.

Spotted on a stream run by The Syndicate Project.

WoW 6.0 Patch Notes

WoW Alpha 6.0 Patch Notes are up.  Here they are on MMOC.

AMD Takes a Shot at the Titan Z

After Intel announced a $3,000 graphics card, the Titan Z, AMD responds by announcing a $1,500 card that appears to challenge it for half the price.  A water-cooled dual-GPU card that can run games easily at 4k has me actually considering the jump to 4k within the year, paired with Samsung's $650 4k monitor.  More information on the Radeon R9 295X2 at Tom's Hardware.