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      Urgot makes his official debut

      August 20, 2010 /

      Urgot concept art.Sorry for the absence of posts yesterday. I was fairly busy in the morning and then we ended up losing power in the afternoon due to some monstrous storms and I didn’t get my net back until this morning. There is good news, though! Urgot has made his official forum debut, which could mean he’ll be ready for release next Tuesday.

      Here’s his text:

      Some stories bring new meaning to the phrase: “cautionary tale,” and I’m pretty sure that this one qualifies. Meet Urgot, the Headman’s Pride. As you might be able to tell, this bloke’s seen a few scrapes in his life and, by this point, is a bit the worse for wear. While he may not be winning any beauty contests, you’re really got to admit it, the guy’s got style. Unless, of course, you’re an arachnophobe. Then the two of you might have issues. Be on the lookout for Urgot as he scuttles his way onto the Field of Justice in the coming patch.

      The concept art offered just reinforces the fact that he is super freaking creepy. You can find his skill list at my original Urgot post.

      Champions, league of legends, News

      Cataclysm CE features announced, I sigh

      August 18, 2010 /

      Cataclysm Collector's Edition

      I’ve never understood the collector’s editions for World of Warcraft. I really enjoy the game, but there are so many easily attainable pets (which is the only thing that really entices me out of the feature list) that I can’t really understand dropping the extra cash on it. People spend money on weirder stuff, and I guess there’s enough involved to keep the crazy lore freaks happy.

      Here’s what you get:

      CATACLYSM EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DVD:
      • Over an hour of developer interviews and commentaries, discussing the game’s development from early design through finished gameplay.
      • The Cataclysm intro cinematic and major content patch trailers complete with Director’s Commentary.
      • A special Warcraft retrospective examining the rich gaming history of the Warcraft universe.

      COLLECTOR’S EDITION SOUNDTRACK:
      • Seventeen epic tracks from Cataclysm.

      THE ART OF CATACLYSM:
      • 176 pages of art, featuring never-before-seen images from the archives of the Blizzard Film Department and the World of Warcraft development team.
      • Progressive visuals from every stage of development – from early concepts through to finished, detailed art.

      WORLD OF WARCRAFT®: CATACLYSM™ PC/MAC GAME:
      • The full World of Warcraft expansion set on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM.

      WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRADING CARD GAME STARTER PACKS AND EXCLUSIVE CARDS:
      • One 60-card deck from the new Wrathgate series featuring two extended art cards and visuals from several of fantasy’s top creators.
      • Two exclusive hero cards, marking the first appearance of goblin and worgen heroes in the WOW:TCG.
      • One full-sized rule book to teach you how to play.

      EXCLUSIVE IN-GAME PET:
      • He may not be a breaker of worlds… at least not yet… but Lil’ Deathwing will still aid you in your titanic struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart.

      CATACLYSM MOUSEPAD:
      • A special-edition mouse pad depicting Deathwing menacing the ravaged continents of Azeroth.

      See, there’s some good stuff in there. Gamestop lists the box set at $79.99.

      Activision, Previews

      New champ on the block: Urgot, the abomination from hell

      August 18, 2010 /

      Urgot.

      There’s a new champion terrorizing the test realm as I write this, a champion that is far and away the creepiest thing in League of Legends. His name is Urgot, and he appears to be some sort of nightmare tank character with a swap ability DotA players should recognize from Vengeful Spirit.

      His current ability list is as follows:
      Acid Hunter – Urgot fires a missile toward the target that deals physical damage. Missile lock can be achieved by holding the cursor over a target afflicted by Noxian Corrosive Charge.

      Terror Capacitor – Urgot charges up his terror capacitor to gain a shield that absorbs damage for 7 seconds. While the shield is active, Urgot’s attacks and missiles slow the target by 27 percent.

      Noxian Corrosive Charge – Urgot launches a corrosive charge at a target location. Enemies hit by the charge have reduced armor and take magic damage over four seconds.

      Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser – Urgot gains high magic resistance and armor (130 at level 3) for 5 seconds. His target is stunned for one second before swapping positions with Urgot. After the swap the target is slowed by 40 percent for 3 seconds.

      This guy has a crazy ability list. I don’t like that Acid Hunter is physical damage, while both Terror Capacitor and Noxian Corrosive Charge scale with AP. That his shield is seven seconds long is definitely a good thing and the slow component should be interesting. His ultimate sounds like a blast. I loved Vengeful Spirit (a character from DotA with a long range swap skill) and I have feeling Urgot could be a lot of fun as a support/tank character. I’m guessing he’ll blow Galio out of the water.

      I also like that he has a dramatically different look from the other characters in the game. Though the cartoon vibe can be cool, I like that this guy is just downright creepy. I’m looking forward to Riot’s official leak posts about him.

      Reviews

      Inaugural FG LoL Monday was a great success

      August 17, 2010 /

      Blitzcrank lookin good.Despite the short notice, lack of an advertised time, and general disorganization on my part, last night was a lot of fun. We started with just three people and ramped up to five by the end of the night so we stayed in the regular matchmaking queues.

      The first game was myself, zebano, and bojamba in threes. We played Tryndamere, Garen, and Poppy respectively and utterly dominated the game. For the next game, the three of us went into a 5v5 match as Amumu, Ryze, and Nasus. We were getting torn up early game by the heals on Taric and Janna, and our opposing Gragas was getting pretty thick. It didn’t take long, though, to turn things around. Sometime toward level 15, the Amumu/Nasus/Ryze ult combo became way too much for them to handle. We started winning every team fight and eventually just pushed straight to nexus.

      For the final game we had a full five and went Galio, Blitzcrank, Twitch, Fiddlesticks, and Garen. MVP for the game went to Zirze with his Blitzcrank grabs. He was all money, all the time that game. Imbri also had his time to shine when he got caught alone as Galio against three opponents. Somehow he stayed up for what felt like a year, got his full ult off, dropping three of them below 50 percent health. By that time our whole team was right behind them for cleanup. The surrender followed shortly after.

      FG LoL Mondays, league of legends

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