Introducing Friday Night Firefall!

In order to contribute toward building the Firefall community, we want to officially introduce Friday Night Firefall!

Tonight, after the Firefall Fest live stream has concluded (6PM PST / 9PM EST), join 8-Bit Tavern on our Twitch channel to watch Antilles stream with Cuculainn.

Our goal is to bring together everyone who enjoys something about playing Firefall and raise awareness about a time and place to organize, learn, compete, and just have fun.

Right now, the things we plan on doing, as well as the activities we want to see grow include all of the following:

• Educating new or potential players on game content and mechanics. We do lots of Q&A and will demonstrate game content and mechanics to you live!

• Involving viewers in PvE content. Jump in and group with Antilles and Cuculainn or any other community members!

• Raising awareness and promoting the PvP eSports scrimmaging community. As Red 5 Studios fleshes out the PvP content, we want to help connect interested players with teams looking to sharpen their eSports skills for competitve play. These activities will be the foundation of the future eSport community.

• Practice shoutcast events. Want to shoutcast but need a chance to try it out? Want to warm-up before casting your next tournament? We want to help.

• Experiment with new PvP game ideas (looking at you NERC) and incorporate weekly events into Friday Night Firefall that put a spin upon standard PvP and PvE gameplay.

In the short-term, our FNFF's will be looser, more casual, and centered around educating potential players and involving viewers in both PvP and PvE. Once we get to see everything that Red 5 has in store for us, the more we will start introducing specific events aimed at PvP or PvE gameplay.

So come join us on our Twitch channel on Friday night or look for Antilles and Cuculainn in-game and group up!

See you in New Eden,

WF (Cuculainn) & EF (Antilles)

Tavern Tech: Samsung Galaxy SIII



Samsung Galaxy SIII or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rectangles with Rounded Corners


Well it's high time that I expanded my repertoire of posts to include one of the other subjects our blog covers. Technology, especially smartphones, has become as intertwined in our lives as drinking water. You can go a while without using one, but you'll be darned if you don't get really thirsty for some of that sweet sweet gadgetry after a while. And once you make the move from what the carriers are calling "basic phones" to smartphones (or as I like to think of them, exobrains), you'll have a hard time going back. My first true smartphone was the Motorola Droid X, which I acquired two years ago. Back when a phone that size was gargantuan. But I didn't mind. In fact, I prefer larger phones that are concussions waiting to happen should they ever become airborne. With my two year contract being up, I shopped around and was amused that most new smartphones are either as large, or larger than the Droid X. After researching specs, reviews, discussing the newest generations of phones possessed by friends and colleagues, toying with Verizon's in-store models, and consulting no less than three Ouija boards, I settled on the Samsung Galaxy SIII.