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The Lord of the Rings Online™ Forums Continuous Game - Tips - Anno 1404 Guide Wiki Introduction The Continuous game mode allows you to customize a plethora of options regarding map size, resources, natural disasters, other players, starting conditions, and winning conditions. Continuous mode can be considered the ultimate Anno 1404 experience since it allows total freedom to build your world how you want. Note: There are quite a few achievements that can only be done in Continuous mode. If you're trying for a specific achievement, it's in your interest to tailor the game settings to help you get that achievement. Game setup There are three pre-set modes available: Easy, Medium, and Hard. Tip: If you're trying for an achievement that requires a "Hard continuous game", make sure you customize your game with enough "hard" choices to make the game difficulty reach the "Hard" level. Settings for maximum population If your goal is to build the biggest cities possible, always play on a huge world with large islands. Good Maps for Continuous Game Map 18030 Map 39950 - Venice Only War

GameSpy: PC Games, Reviews, News, Previews, Demos, Mods & Patches Conjunctions The Fellowship Manoeuvre Wheel For information on Monster Player Warband Maneuvers, please visit Warband Maneuvers. A Fellowship Manoeuvre (FM) (formerly named Conjunction) is a Fellowship-based group attack that can be very powerful if coordinated well. Different ordered contribution combinations will result in different Fellowship Manoeuvres. You can find more information about your available contribution skills and the Fellowship Manoeuvres you have been a part of in the Fellowship tab in the Skills panel. Fellowship Manoeuvres occur randomly and require that the target be stunned or knocked down, in any group encounter with a signature or higher enemy (You'll get the message "X has broken the defences of Y"). The Assist Button If you have targeted the wrong target, when a Fellowship Manoeuvre starts, you'll get the assist button instead of the wheel. Manoeuvre types In general, blue and green colors can be used from a distance, while red and yellow require you to be in melee range.

30 Fascinating Video Game Inspired Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes My first video game console was an Atari Super Pong. A brand new one, not a retro gadget purchased on Ebay. It was 1976 and I was a kid. A year later, my brother bought a Fairchild Channel F console. But that was it. 32 years later, I purchased the third console in my life for my kids. I’m having so much fun playing Mario Kart and Wii Sports that I decided to compile a list of 30 Video Game Inspired Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes for this new roundup of Photoshop resources. Yeah, real life situations are my source of inspiration. Video Game Inspired Photoshop Tutorials Videoshock video game digital painting Create a realistic GameBoy Super retro game cartridge design Create a Mario video game icon Create a super retro style game controller PC game box design Video game web site header Create the Xbox 360 logo Draw a Nintendo DS Lite Create a Sony PlayStation in Photoshop Game art in Photoshop A Photoshop texturing workflow for painting hard surfaces Half Life 2 logo PacMan avatar in Photoshop

Top 5 best (free) open source games Why waste your money on expensive commercial games when you can play for free and if you’re so inclined dive into the code and modify the game to suit your exacting requirements? Apcmag.com presents its selection of the most addictive fun and refined Open Source games for January 2008. #1 Secret Maryo Chronicles Taking inspiration from a certain classic sidescroller of yesteryear Secret Maryo Chronicles (SMC) is a captivating 2 dimensional platformer. Gorgeous graphics and interesting levels make for a refreshing take on Super Mario. Yes physics feel a little different to Super Mario but one gets used to it fairly quickly. PowerupsThere are some very cool powerups available to the player. #2 UFO: Alien Invasion This is a real-time turn-based strategy game based on the classic X-COM series and in particular X-COM: UFO Defense. MultiplayerUFO: Alien Invasion can be played via LAN or Internet. #3 FreeCiv Say goodbye to your social life weekends and sleep. #4 Alien Arena #6 Scorched 3D

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Game career guide Server populations on are apparently not at the levels Funcom anticipated. Aiming to ensure "more healthy" populations, the company will be merging servers in both Europe and North America. Game director Craig Morrison writes on the game's official forums that Funcom is "actively working on an approach" to the server merge. "Still, there are many complexities involved in this, and we want to ensure that everything happens as fair and streamlined as possible," says Morrison. "That work has now started, and we are naturally making sure that guilds and players can get to new servers in the best possible way. We will come back with more info on this, but I hope that this will serve as a positive injection to the social scene in the game." Morrison also says that players can expect to see DirectX 10 functionality, which remained on the internal test servers for 's launch, entering the full test server environment with the next gameplay update. By Leigh Alexander

How Social Gaming is Improving Education For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America’s economic superiority. Year after year, major educational organizations would echo the report’s call with threats of dire consequences and pleas for sweeping reform, from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Audits of the U.S. educational system have revealed that the highest hurdle to adopting skills-based teaching practices is the lack of an easily implementable curriculum. Enter social video games as a solution — immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Contextual Learning For instance, 6th graders learn geography from Google Earth, collaborate through an internal social networking platform, and present ideas through a podcast. What About More Popular Gaming Models?