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Rumors of Trion’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. IGN found this out the hard way when their reports that Trion had laid off 80% of its work force, escorting staff from the premises as well as denying severance to several senior leaders due to undelivered services, turned out to be a complete farce. The actual [...]
Archive for the ‘Defiance’ Category
MMOrning Shots: Defying Cancellation
May 13th, 2013 
Omali Good news for the Defiance television show is good news for the Defiance MMO, and the news is good. Syfy has announced that Defiance will be renewed for a second season, so those of you afraid that Defiance might have been looking toward an early end can breath a sigh of relief. MMOrning Shots is [...]
Why Aren’t You Playing: Defiance On PC
April 22nd, 2013 Omali Defiance is one of those games that I find complicated to review, because I keep going back to it and having a good deal of fun despite the fact that certain features leave me bashing my head on the desk in frustration. On one end, you have a pretty solid shooter set in a persistent [...]
Watch Defiance Episode #1 on Amazon
April 14th, 2013 Omali Want to see the series premiere of Defiance but don’t want to wait until April 15th? Boy are you in luck. In what is either a case of itchy programming or intentional promotion, Amazon has put up the entire one hour twenty six minute series premiere of Defiance. According to a few people we’ve talked [...]
Trion Hands Out Compensation For Defiance
April 12th, 2013 Omali It’s been a rough week for Defiance players, from server downtime to a treasure trove of patches being churned out on the consoles to fix stability problems. People were missing keys, others didn’t receive pre-order items, and or had to wait a very long time for their patcher to download the game. Trion is aware [...]
Defiance Initial Impressions
April 11th, 2013 Omali Defiance is simultaneously one of the greatest and one of the worst MMO shooters I have ever played. On one hand, it brings back thoughts of what Tabula Rasa might have looked like if it had been created for a 2013 audience, an open world, seamless shooter with RPG elements and guns. On the other [...]
Total Sum Of My EGO Rewards
April 2nd, 2013 Omali Defiance has launched, and if you are considering buying the game you might be interested in the game’s My EGO rewards. By entering in 120 easily obtained codes, you have access to all of the following perks, including boosts to your weapon skills and an increase in inventory slots. These perks work on all versions [...]
Omali Was Wrong: Defiance On Steam
March 30th, 2013 Omali Hey folks. Get out your cricket bats, set your clocks one hour behind, and make sure your household knows you won’t be home for dinner, because it’s time for another episode of Omali Was Wrong. Not too long ago, I wrote a column about how Defiance on Steam was only at 33% toward the first [...]
Defiance Might Not Hit Steam Tiers
March 19th, 2013 Omali Those of you who read Flying Ostrich Media are aware that over there I have covered Steam’s new system of pre-purchase reward tiers from time to time. If you aren’t familiar with the system, it works pretty simply: The more people pre-purchase through Steam, the higher the percentage and more rewards are unlocked. Bioshock Infinite, [...]
Pre-Purchase Defiance On Steam, Get More Rewards
March 6th, 2013 Omali Recently, Valve has been partnering up with publishers to add extra incentives to pre-purchasing through Steam. The idea is pretty simple: The more people pre-purchase, the better rewards everyone will receive. For instance, if enough people order Bioshock Infinite before it launches, everyone will receive a free copy of XCOM, Bioshock, as well as a [...]
