Media of the Week

Where to start?

Image of the Week.

Leviathan wreckage on Caldari Prime.

When I first saw it I was shocked. Then I was awed.

Its something which really helps hammer home the scale of the ships in eve. However I believe CCP will have a really good quality version of this that they should release in my honest opinion. I may be a Caldari fanboy, but its a damn good piece of work which I would like as my desktop background for a while.

As a further note on images, though not an image per-see CCP has updated the look of their community website and released a dev blog about it. Linky.

Video of the Week.

Clear Skies 3 by Ian Chisholm

Literally if your interested at all in Eve Online and have not seen these your missing out big time.

There are in actual fact three separate Clear Skies movies, 1,2 and 3. The third and last one is possibly the best out of the three. But its necessary to a certain extent to watch the first two to fully understand what's actually going on.

This is the sort of thing I wish we saw more of for many more games, and I wish we saw more of this kind of thing for eve, as Its pretty damn great. It is if anything a testimony to how dedicated and invested the eve community is with the game. I know for a fact that when this was released when I was in Test that nearly everyone began downloading it to watch it as soon as word spread it was available, with most people logging out of game shortly after finishing downloading it to watch it.

Music of the Week.

Something Dark is Coming. - Bear McCeary.

I chose this for this week's piece because it is again one of my many favourite tracks, one which I can listen to on an endless loop without getting bored of it infact.

Bear McCeary did a fantastic job with the Battlestar Galactica soundtracks on a whole. Parts of them are not great in my opinion but others he has shown some true skill in.

The whole feel that this piece is building up to something unknown in the future I think perfectly fits with the nature of the reasonably brief Odyssey announcement. We don't know much, it sounds like it could be epic and it could turn eve into a more dark and dangerous place.

Media of the Week

All right. I nearly missed it this week, but its here.

I've been fairly busy and not totally in the writing mood till now. Though I think that's changing. Looks like I may be going through cycles of having lots I want to write about and then times when I just want to sit and stew, doing nothing.

Video of the Week.

Of Fountains, Clowns and Birthdays.

Yeah, I couldn't resist beginning to show off some more eve related video's. This one, titles "Of Fountains, Clowns, and Birthdays" is perhaps one of my all time favourites by Tez of Test Alliance.

It dates from the time when Test Alliance Please Ignore with the help of Goonswarm and others kicked IT Alliance from Fountain. 6VDT-H being the capital system for the region, with the Gallente outpost of it being the centre piece for much of the footage as Test and Goons hell camped it twenty four hours a day for about four or five days I believe, meaning that IT Alliance was unable to undock safely and form a fleet to defend their space. This is one of Tez's earlier propaganda videos and as I said one of my favourites, though all of his videos are well worth watching in my opinion.

Image of the Week.

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim - Blackreach.

A Skyrim screenshot.

This is taken from down in Blackreach, if I remember correctly.

Skyrim is a game that I have a lot of time for, the exploration and the ability to customise your character so much is what really makes it for me. Well that and the stunning visuals. Skyrim for me will be one of the all time greatest games ever. One of the reasons I picked this one is simply because I think many people will have possibly missed the glowing orb down in Blackreach which is in this, and the brilliant radiance it gives off.

Music/Sound of the Week

John Dreamer - Becoming A Legend

This is perhaps one of his best pieces of music, I'm hoping he will release some more stuff in the future as I think this is pretty damn cool as it is. It would suit just about any epic hero driven game trailer or montage video. Definitely one of the better pieces of epic classical style music that I've been listening to lately. And something that I hope others will enjoy.