Showing posts with label legends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legends. Show all posts

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Legends of Tomorrow - First Look and Villain Announced! UPDATE: Now with Trailer!






Excitement has been building for the newest spinoff in the Arrow/Flash universe ever since it was first announced. And now that the team-up show, Legends of Tomorrow, has gotten a mid-season premiere set, DC and the CW are starting to tease us even more. Above, you can see the first full photo of the cast, which reveals some interesting details. And today, we got our first confirmation on what villain the team would be facing. Hit the jump for all the details.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Sword Coast Legends - the First D&D Video Game to Let you DM in Real Time


Announced today and headed up by Dan Tudge, the director of Dragon Age: Origins, Sword Coast Legends is a new Dungeons and Dragons game in the vein of old-school, top down, Baldur's Gate style adventures. It's based on the D&D 5th Ed ruleset, which we love here at Ace of Geeks, and it's got both single player and Campaign modes. The really interesting part, however, is the Dungeon Master mode.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Episode 137: That Dark was Joke

This week, the Ace of Geeks get a surprise guest in Robert Fulkerson of Found in the Alley! We'll tell you to vaccinate your damn kids, and in the process discuss League of Legends new map, whether Super Smash Bros is a "real" fighting game, Telltale Games, and what Disneyland says about us a society.

Episode 137!

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

IEM and Seth Oakley both go the SAP Center...



...and only one of them leaves alive.

It was, of course, Seth Oakley who came out alive, since Intel Extreme Masters is an event, not a living organism.  That had a lot to do with it.  

IEM is a tournament and trade show type event for Intel to showcase its products to a crowd of eSports enthusiasts.  They occupy a convention center somewhere around the world, moving from Shenzhen to Toronto to San Jose, then to Cologne and Taipei and ending up in the championship in Katowice.  This past weekend was the San Jose weekend, so I grabbed three friends Scott Joe and Greg and went down to watch League of Legends team Cloud9 clean up on Sunday.  Oh, yeah, spoiler warning.  We came into the games after Unicorns of Love had a tremendous showing the previous day and upset the home country favorite, TeamSoloMid.  TSM was a quarter-finalist at the World Championship, and have a huge fan base in the US, even when traveling abroad - TSM chants are quite common during matches.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

On Cheating, Honor, and Competition

Mike posted about me the other day.  It went something like this:

Seth.  Hey Seth.  Seth.  Seth, hey Seth.  Seth.  Write something.  Hey Seth, hey, write something.  Write something, Seth.  Write it.  Write something.  Seth.  Thanks. (write something).

Or at least that's what I got out of it.  Unfortunately, I didn't really know what to write about.  The tournament scene for miniature wargaming is winding down in this area, and most of you tune in for those pictures.  I'd covered most of the cons that went on, and the few that I had been to did not have large scale competitions.  None of you had any good ideas, so I was sitting around until my friend Dan tossed this little gem into my lap:

"Hey, did you hear about the Feast of Blades tournament in Denver?"

Google Search.  Read read read.  ooooooOOOOOOOoooooohhhh.

Apparently the champion of the tournament was accused of cheating, and immediately disqualified himself.  The allegation came from another person, who had found one of his dice under the table and saw that the die was not fair.  The champion made a public statement where he apologizes for the mistake.  He chose to disqualify himself and bow out of the tournament, declining his prize, trophy, and recognition.  Words like "honorable" and "do the right thing" and "honest mistake" were used to describe the situation.  Huh.  Ok, we'll come back to that later.