The Ravecast will be host to guests from various areas of The Zam Network during the month of September. Join the hosts, Leonai_art and Luxx, every Friday to hear the voices and opinions on gaming subjects abound.

This week’s victim is Jeffrey “Danalog” Abshire, one of the lead programmers of Allakhazam.com

Tune in this Friday at 6:30pm Pacific for a live show.

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I’d heard of the products before, but hadn’t taken the time until now to actually check them out.

“The Game Creators” is a company that creates software for other companies to use to create games. A little confusing, I’m sure, but their intent is to take away the need to have people create games from scratch. Instead, they provide a platform to work from instead of having to have high-end technical coding engineers actually creating the platform itself. You have to have a foundation for a house before you can build a house, right?

So for around the cost of a game itself, you can purchase their software and create your own first person shooter. From there, the prices go up, but the packages appear to really be worth the money. If you’ve ever toyed around with the idea of wanting to create your own game, this could be your lucky day.

Now there is a whole lot more to creating a game than just the basics, and a whole lot more than just click-drag-and-go, but there are a lot of people out there who have thought the whole thing out and have lots of others who are willing to contribute - so for those of you who have - here you go! For those of you who haven’t, this still looks like something that would be fairly fun to tinker with regardless.

Tonight we welcome Eva back. She will go over her material from Dragon Con. She scmoozed with many a star and posted some pictures. We will work over the course of the nest week on getting these pictures into our gallery. We will feature the latest jobs posting for the gaming industry and talk about some articles featured in Game Devoloper magazine.

This will be another exciting show. Tune in!

(ok this posting is kicking my butt right now)

Guntar

*Fill in bashing for being slow, a day late, and apparently a dollar short*

Woowoo! Legends of Norrath is now LIVE for EverQuest and EverQuest 2 players… and it went live yesterday.

What is it?

Legends of Norrath is an online-only trading card game, based on the richly-detailed sword-and-sorcery world of Norrath from the massively multiplayer online role-playing games EverQuest and EverQuest II. Playable from within the MMOs and separately, Oathbound, the first set for Legends of Norrath features over 375 digital cards and is available in both a 55-card digital starter deck and 15-card digital booster packs. Play as one of many Oathbound avatars and decide your own fate as you choose between the paths of good or evil.

For more information click —-> ( read more… )

So running through the list of recent changes…

We changed our logo and are now showcasing what was previously an unofficial mascot and we’ve made our OGRe our official official mascot.

Then… we moved to the new site. Woowoo!

New site included new forums which meant having to make the decision to keep or lose all previous posts. The decision to just start with new forums seemed more appealing than keeping the old posts and having to go through the headache of organization and database issues, so new NEW forums!

Today is a day to celebrate with smileys though! Why? Because we’ve replaced all of the default smileys with far better ones, plus added a bunch of new ones. So for those of you who haven’t, please register an account. If you’ve already registered one, then what’re you waiting for?! Join in on the discussion or just create a thread saying “Hi”!

If you didn’t catch the link before this, here it is again. —> Link to the forums

Be sure to tune in Tuesday to the live broadcast of EQ2’s-day from 7:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 4:00 - 6:00 PM Pacific / 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM GMT for a fun filled adventure with Zanadi and The Dellmon.

The topic: The first previews of Game Update 38 are just starting to appear and the team has much to say on these new changes to Everquest II. The beta online trading card game Legends of Norrath continues and Dellmon has finally won his first match [and there was much rejoicing!]The Drunken Dwarf and Cheezit will also be stopping by to share more of their words of wisdom and answer your letters!

Special Note: The show starting time has bumped up 1 hour: 4:00pm Pacific / 7:00pm Eastern.

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Back to School - Dellmon and Zanadi hit the books this week on EQ2s-day and do thier homework on EQuinox, Game Update 38, and Legends of Norrath which this week seemed to get a little less detention. Drunk Dwarf and Cheesit offer up some manly advice for all the men out there.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd’s video game console Wii outsold Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 by a ratio of three to one in Japan in August, but Nintendo’s overwhelming lead in the market narrowed for the second consecutive month.

Nintendo sold 245,653 units of the Wii in the four weeks ending August 26, compared with 81,541 units of Sony’s PS3, game magazine publisher Enterbrain said. The ratio was more than four to one in favor of the Wii in July and six to one in June.

Sony’s PS3, packed with cutting-edge technology such as a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, has been trailing the Wii in sales since the consoles were introduced late last year, due to the PS3’s high price and a scarcity of strong game titles.

But the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment conglomerate plans to launch a wide range of new games towards the critical year-end shopping season, including the latest installment of its popular in-house racing game “Gran Turismo.”

“Gran Turismo 5,” one of the most eagerly awaited titles for the PS3, is set to go on sale in October, in a bid to ignite PS3 demand among devoted game fans.

Microsoft Corp, locked in battle with Nintendo and Sony over dominance in the $30 billion global video game industry, sold 11,288 units of its Xbox 360 in August, Enterbrain said.

Shares in Sony closed up 0.4 percent at 5,600 yen, while Nintendo fell 1.7 percent to 52,800 yen. The Nikkei average was down 0.27 percent.

Part 1 of 2:
Leonai and Luxx host their final show of August 2007 and wrap up their Next-gen MMO topic (almost). What will it really take to be considered the next next-gen MMO? First segment includes the Old School Theme Song Trivia and a little bit of gaming news.

Part 2 of 2:
Leonai and Luxx host their final show of August 2007 and wrap up their Next-gen MMO topic (almost). What will it really take to be the next next-gen MMO? Guests Kira and Cineo stop by to join the conversation and talk a little bit of roleplay.