AMC is doing their promo blitz for the updated version of ‘The Prisoner’, one of the cool items they sent along was this ‘Prisoner Timeline’ piece. Take a look! And don’t forget to catch ‘The Prisoner’ Sunday, November 15 at 8pm/7c on AMC. When Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner aired in 1967, it was unlike anything else [...]

Viggo Mortensen has been honoured for his work in film. The actor took to the red carpet in Hollywood as the American Film Institute (AFI) held a special evening in his honour as part of the AFI Festival, accompanying a screening of his new movie The Road. “It’s a team sport making movies,” said Viggo, [...]

TORN Pal and author Ethan Gilsdorf has agreed to blog his West coast book tour for us! Take a look at his first blog: One of the joys of traveling across the US on tour for my book FANTASY FREAKS AND GAMING GEEKS: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other [...]

Ian McKellen is going back to drama school, for television. The thesp has signed to star in a half-hour mockumentary series, “The Academy,” that is being shopped to U.K. and U.S. buyers by DLT Entertainment. McKellen would play his fictional brother, Murray McKellen, who heads a run-down drama school, the Clapham Academy of Creative [...]

From english.people.com.cn: U.S. producer-director Peter Jackson is expected to be in China in late November to promote his latest project – “District 9,” which will be released across the country on Nov. 27, the Oriental Morning Post reports. The director of the “Lord of Rings” series will visit Beijing and Shanghai to interact with moviegoers. [...]

Long weekend = BBQ + lots of time to game. And for me in real life, some gardening to do - have a bushel of jalapenos, tomatoes and limes to go box up and distribute to family and neighbors!

New LoTRO player here, have been playing for a couple weeks now with my constant gaming companion and boyfriend, on Landroval. We’d just jumped ship from EQ2 and decided to try LoTRO again. We’d played the original beta but didn’t get into the game back then. It’s been great fun here now though!

We rolled on Landroval as we generally prefer RP servers, but haven’t gotten much of a chance to RP ourselves in game yet. Part of that is because the sparkle of “newplayerdom” has us running around in an ADHD state - always out in the wilds and rarely standing around in town - and the other part is that frankly I’ve been a bit timid because of the lore aspect. The last time I read the LoTR was when I was 13 and I certainly never studied it at length; with being in uni I just don’t have the time to add additional studies to my repetoire. I need to find a Cliff Notes version somewhere, lol!

I’m quite proud of what little we’ve accomplished so far in our short time though! By level 18 we both had our first player houses. Granted, they were the cheap standard versions, but still a place to lay our pixelated heads at night. With the Summer Fest going on we were able to snag a few pieces of furniture for our newly rented and empty homes so it worked out well. Also the housing storage chests made it SO much easier to trade crafting materials to alts for when we work on our crafting.

As far as the social aspect, we’ve had about zilch community involvement thus far. With the two of us playing Warden and Captain, we haven’t had a need to group for any content thrown at us so we have done no pick-ups whatsoever. And no luck yet on the kinship front. Hopefully that will change as we progress a bit further and meet some great people along the way.

On the bright side, this game is awesome for exploring! Yesterday I ran myself, in all my level 22 glory, to Rivendell from Bree with nothing more than a blank map and a general idea of what direction to head simply because I wanted to see it. No stable masters unlocked either so it was a long hike. It was worth it though as I happily located the gorgeous Last Homely House (library OMG!!) and discovered some sort of armor traders there with what I assume are endgame set pieces. Good things to look forward to later on down the road.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!