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I had intended to share more photos from the big…scratch that for redundancy….to share more photos from the Apocalypse Mega-Battle, yeah I know another redundancy, held at Battleground Games in Abington. Instead I have something better!

What could be better than pictures taken by Commissar Grey as he’s known on the BG forum? Apocalypse music? Apocalypse slideshow? Apocalypse podcast? The answer to all those questions is no although several podcasts have been devoted to Apocalypse with the most recent being CWF-2008-1-17 Apocalypse Photos and Combat Storm Downloads.

I have video of the event taken by store owner Derek Lloyd. He just posted it on Youtube last night and I had a helluva time finding it. Many thanks to my friend Murf for the link. Without further adieu CWF Game Cast is proud to share Warhammer 40K Apocalypse Megabattle at Battleground 2008. Enjoy!

written by ^Raven^

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40k, apocalypse, Battleground Games, New England Game Stores, video, youtube.

Minicast with ^Raven^ as your host discussing Apocalpyse Photos and Combat Storm Downloads. Please note Go Go Gadget Bat-o-ry was replaced with “Civilization And Its Discontent” also by Matt Searles due to technical difficulties. My apologies for this and for the disparity in the podcast. Civilization And Its Discontent starts at 8:50 and ends at 12:06.

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1) Theme, Zombie by Devin Anderson (Electronic)

2) Thursday January 17, 2008, CWF GameCast features Apocalpyse Photos and Combat Storm Downloads.

3) Our Website = www.wargamingforums.com

4) Apocalypse Photos

Apocalypse Pics from Battleground Part 1

Apocalypse Pics from Battleground Part 2

5) Music to Game By Check Out “Go Go Gadget Bat-o-ry” by Massachusetts’ own Matt Searles. Go Go Gadget Bat-o-ry was replaced with “Civilization And Its Discontent” also by Matt Searles due to technical difficulties. My apologies for this and for the disparity in the podcast. Civilization And Its Discontent starts at 8:50 and ends at 12:06.

6) Combat Storm Downloads

Combat Storm Articles on CWF

Combat Storm Video on Youtube

7) Closing comments, next cast will be Thursday January 24, 2008.

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9) Our Website = www.wargamingforums.com and it has all the shownotes and updates

Next cast will be Thursday January 24, 2008.

written by ^Raven^

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40k, apocalypse, Battleground Games, Combat Storm, Music to Game By, New England Game Stores, Plastic Army Men, video, youtube.

So you are one of the people who downloaded the free building pack. Now, you can use some help assembling that bad boy. Its basically straightforward but a tutorial can iron out the kinks. Luckily Dave Reiter, lead designer of Combat Storm, has created a Youtube video tutorial for the building kit. It spends roughly 8 minutes to assemble the middle eastern building. But, the other items are assembled with the same method.

If you haven’t gotten it yet remember you can download the free building pack. This pack lets you make one middle eastern building, barricades, and a stone wall. Print it out a bunch of times and you have a small town. You need the FREE Acrobat Reader from Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the building pack. I have version 8.1.1 for Mac OS X Leopard and the building pack shows perfectly!

Once you have that all printed out, be sure to follow the directions in the building pack, you are ready to watch the tutorial shown below.

written by ^Raven^

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Combat Storm, Plastic Army Men, video, youtube.

There’s always tons of discussions on gaming as entertainment and usually a lot on the issue of violence in games. Every game has it to some degree, no matter how indiscernible, but most notably discussion focuses on video games. When Grand Theft Auto came out people were upset over shooting cops, running over people, and buffing health by having sex with a prostitute. If you look back far enough I’m sure people were upset that Pac-man ate the dots.

However, games are more than simple entertainment. They in fact are great educational tools, even the US military uses FPS and air simulators to train its troops, and much more. Libraries have embraced games as a way to bring teens and children into the library. This exposes teens to the games they love and much more. They can learn how to program games of their own, read fiction similar to the game, watch films and listen to movies that inspired the games. Most importantly, they can use these games as a way to interact with others their age and form bonds they may otherwise not form.

The Nintendo Wii is a prime example of gaming as a community experience. Wii Sports, which ships with the game, is geared as a group activity. In the Youtube Vid below, created by friend and librarian Beth, librarians are experiencing Wii Boxing so they can operate it for teens in their own libraries.

Next time you think video games are just for children think of this vid.

written by ^Raven^

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Computer/Video Games, People, video, youtube.

With the 40k Apocalypse Mega-Battle (yes I know that’s redundant) happening in less than 8 hours I thought everyone will enjoy some Apocalypse fun. One of my Youtube subscriptions, Lanparth, discussed Apocalypse a few months back and I’m giving him a nod by sharing his vid with all of you.

I don’t agree with everything he says, in fact I hardly ever agree with anything he says, but he offers a differing opinion than I on most issues. Watching his vid will either give you a chance to agree with someone, “Hey Lanparth totally agrees with everything I have to say. Fuck GW!” Or, you’ll vehemently disagree with him “Lanparth you tool! GW r0×0rz my s0×0rz and Apocalypse is mana from Jebus.”

Maybe I’ll do a bit in the podcast about Lanparth and his GW vids on Youtube. Then again, there’s other stuff to discuss.

written by ^Raven^

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40k, apocalypse, People, video, youtube.