As many of the Death Inc members are aware, I’m a bit of a geek… I work in IT, I run an extensive computer network at home and I love Star Trek.  So it didn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone that as soon as the newest game in the Star Trek universe, the MMORPG Star Trek Online was released on Steam along with free access to the open Beta, I bagged it in the time it took to whip out my credit card!

Since that night, I’ve enjoyed several hours of gameplay per day and am really getting into the game.  I’m looking forward to February 3rd (here in Australia) when the full version will be released and open up access to all of the maps, allow promotion beyond Lt. Commander etc, but for the time being I’m busying myself in exploring the limited gameplay that Cryptic Studios has made available in the Beta.

I’m not much for writing game reviews, and given the chance I probably would have had Death Inc’s own creative writing expert, Chalice, take a stab at it for me… However instead, I have come across a pretty accurate and easy to read review of the game that anyone who’s potentially interested in the game should take a read of.  You’ll find it at:  http://gameinformer.com/games/star_trek_online/b/pc/archive/2010/01/15/star-trek-online-the-next-ten-hours.aspx

While I am sure that an online RPG with a Star Trek theme is unlikely to generate mass appeal amongst gamers, for those of you who don’t mind the odd episode of Star Trek, you may find it suitable as a game to add to your play list for this year, and if so, I’ll see you in-game!

- Virgil83

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Now that Christmas and New Years are over, people will slowly start to trickle back into their normal routines…

For Death Inc, this usually means that some of our regular gamers who have been active over the past few weeks will start to quieten down, whereas others will begin to increase their activity.  Either way, as long as your having fun that’s all that matters! Read more…

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That’s right folks, that time of year is upon us again… no, no, not Christmas, that’s tomorrow! Today is Christmas Eve, which means it’s time for the annual Death Inc Christmas Parody!

For those who are new to the concept, each year Death Inc posts up a new take on a classic Christmas song. Last year we re-did “The Night Before Christmas” in a modern gaming style, and this year we’ve turned our hand to “Jingle Bells”, everyone’s snow-filled Christmas favourite…

So without any further ado, I’m delighted to present the 2009 Death Inc Christmas Parody - “Gaming Time, a Battlefield 2 Parody of Jingle Bells”, starring several members of the Death Inc Clan (highlighted in orange): Read more…

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Match Completed:  Tues 10 Nov 09

TOG – Jetfire v DI

We love GA.
We love how GA cant have a server ready after more that 4 days notice.
We love how after 2 apparent server reboots by GA staff the server still wasn’t up.
We love how this has happened so many times before. Anyways.

The “Plan B” was to create a server to the rules and play on that.
TOG – Jetfire were total gentlemen and let us run with this option. Read more…

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Match Held - Wed 4th Nov

As we were higher on the ladder and they were challenging all we had to do was to get a draw to win the game. So defence was vital.

We had a fairly water-tight strat, but there was always a chance they would be able to crack our defence… Read more…

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With the initial rollout set we were not our usual band of players as a few regulars couldn’t make it. Not to worry, the “ring-ins” were on the team list, knew how to play and could bring a fresh angle on our game-play.

Bang! The gates were open and it was our turn to stop that little cart from being moved. DI was defending in the first round and it didn’t take long for BT to take most of us down. Read more…

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The sound of the heartbeats from the DeathInc team was coming thru the speakers, almost drowning out speech entirely 3, 2, 1….The battle for Muttrah city has begun and the lives of these ten brave US soldiers would be forever changed by this moment in history.

Bravo squad led by Bageled who has watched spiderman way too many times quickly climbed over the wall and charged to the East attempting to flank the enemy as they dug into the Carpark. Read more…

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Good evening all and welcome to another edition of my editorial.  This evening I’ll be covering some of the developments around the Death Inc Forums this week…

First of all I’m delighted to say that the 3-word-at-a-time Story is still going strong, the thread now into it’s 18th page of replies, all three words of course :)  Make sure you drop by the thread and read what’s been written so far! Read more…

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After about 2 mins all players were in the server for both teams. Jstar once learning there 2 be a possible female player on the super villians side began hitting on her, and talking about trance, dance and music. Once he was satisfied we began the match.

The Players for DI were
Brayalex (bomb carrier)
Robbojlr (meat shield)
Jstar (Ladies Man)
Beaverbob (Animal Lover)
Jakes2142 (Capt)

Read more…

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The first round started very well with a good smoker boom to start things off. Zoe got to half hp before even getting to the second floor!!! After that some fancy car punching scored Reggie the final kill in the first round resulting in a 1000 point lead before the second round started!!!

It was a strong lead but we couldn’t relax just yet, we had another round to go.

Come the second round and it was almost a carbon copy of the first, we were ahead 2500 to 150 points when Read more…

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