Herr Amoth, vocalist of the black metal band SYMPHONY DRACONIS, was stabbed by an unknown person after a festival in Brazil. The musician was severely…
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
GOD FORBID: New Song Posted Online
New Jersey metal titans GOD FORBID have posted a new song, “The Rain”, on their MySpace page.
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LED ZEPPELIN Bassist Jams With SONIC YOUTH For Dance Score
According to Guardian.co.uk, LED ZEPPELIN’s bassist, John Paul Jones, is to perform with experimental rockers SONIC YOUTH. In a work composed by mixed-media…
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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist Comments On GRAMMY Nominations
As BLABBERMOUTH.NET reported last night, British metal legends JUDAS PRIEST have been nominated for two awards at for the 51th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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DOKKEN Mainman Don Dokken Confirmed For KELLY KEELING Show In New Orleans
DOKKEN mainman Don Dokken has announced that he will perform a solo acoustic show in support of his second solo album Solitary as special guest…
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Sales Analysis – GUNS N’ ROSES Vs. AC/DC
Hitsdailydouble.com is reporting: Many are expressing surprise that GUNS N’ ROSES? Chinese Democracy sold only 255k in its first week as a Best Buy…
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SEPULTURA Live In Manila; Video Available
Inquirer.net is reporting: Brazilian metal group SEPULTURA was the surprise band during the Red Horse Muziklaban 2008 rock competition, which features top local bands….
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BURNING POINT – Empyre Cover Art, Tracklisting Revealed
The cover art for the new BURNING POINT album Empyre has been revealed. Artwork (click photo) was created by Felipe Machado Franco who’s previous works…
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SCORPIONS To Guest Appearance At DORO’s 25th Anniversary Show
As previously reported, ex-WARLOCK vocalist Doro Pesch will celebrate her 25 year career on December 13th at the ISS Dome in her home town of…
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LED ZEPPELIN’s Jimmy Page, Robert Plant Say Goodbye To Drummer Michael Lee
Lauren Pyrah from Thenorthernecho.co.uk is reporting: A rock legend was in the North-East yesterday to say farewell to one of the most talented drummers…
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Update: Hard Rock, Metal Categories Announced For 51st Annual Grammy Awards
The complete list of nominees in the Hard Rock, Metal, Rock Instrumental and Rock categories for the 51st annual Grammy Awards have been announced and…
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Sacred 2 Update Released
Sacred 2
- Implemented a new ingame options menu.
- Added new bosses to reward exploration.
- Added eight new portals for more convenient travelling around Ancaria.
- New “level-of-detail”-system for better general performance.
- Better pathing in some areas.
- End bosses use more/improved special abilities.
- Opponents in dungeons are more challenging now.
- Buffs can no longer be activated when the selected combat art slot is empty.
- Improved targeting with combos.
- Improved drop reward for the completion of side quests.
- “Mastery” of the skill “Enhanced Perception” will now yield significantly better chest drops.
- Failed quests no longer count as resolved quests in the game statistics.
- PvP: It is no longer possible to attack another player during his fade-in by joining a server at the start island.
- PvP: Target circle now shows under mounted players.
- Fixed that Inquisitor?s armor and clothes were detached from body with certain graphic settings.
- Fixed that PvP was possible in some cities.
- Fixed clipping issue during praying animation.
- Fixed sound issues for the mainquest dialogs.
- Fixed several possible causes for crashes.
- Fixed one cause for random decrease of fps.
- Several minor fixes for combat arts.
- Multi-hit combat arts performed with ranged weapons now have a limit of three projectiles.
- Fixed that the Temple Guardian did not move to attack when mounted on a horse.
- Mainquest related holograms in the jungle area are now working correctly.
- Quest log does no longer need to be activated after exit/load.
- New mini-sets are now dropping
- Set-items now drop much more often and earlier
- MP-Servers can now be opened and joined at any difficulty
- In MP the difficulty of the enemies is not global for the whole server
anymore. If two or more players with different levels play in different
parts of the world, each player has its own enemies with their own
spawn level - MP – mode “free game” and PvP now has open ship ports between the isles
- The teleporters in cities will be activated as soon as the city is
discovered - Boni on items are now displayed in red if they donât affect the
character. This can happen for example if they apply to the wrong
character-class or if they augment a skill that the player has not yet
learned - Facetteleon now has less graphical effect issues with different detail
levels - Quest items that need to be collected now stack in the log
- In the sidequest “Cobold chief” it was possible that the sound was
muted, this has been fixed - Sidequest “A strange machine” had missing texts, this is now fixed
- The tooltip for selling a mount to a trader mentioned saddles, this has
been fixed
EnemyTerritory.tv’s CAL Coverage Continues Tonight
The first round of the Cyberathlete Amateur League’s Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars playoffs is set to kick off tonight and the EnemyTerritory.tv crew will be there to cover it. GzR will be playing JerkyBoysin a match that promises to be particularly intense, especially with competition favorite Sewer being the battleground of choice. It’ll all start at 10:30 PM Eastern Time (that’s 3:30 AM UK time) – just point your browser to EnemyTerritory.tv and follow the enormous signage.
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