{MC} Paradise's Garage

Update for 2025!

ParaDOX — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:09:00 GMT

Yeah, it's been a while....

What's been going on?

Work mostly... some occasional gaming

What we are currently playing.

Waiting on:

Dune Awakening
Space Engineers 2 (Multiplayer)

Games played previously

And lots more I can't remember.

We now have several Discord servers going. They are for specific communities.

There is one for the WoW guild, One for 24/7 House Music. And of course, the original MC labs - ParadisesGarage Discord that we all know and love.

The other servers are invite only, but I am not posting an invite here.

Feel free to hop into Discord and say Hi. Even though we don't hang in the voice channel as often, we all lurk there and are still paying attention.

Another Front Page update that only took over 4 years!

Update for 2020

ParaDOX — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMT

2020 is almost over...

And I'm sure it isn't soon enough for most of us!

So what have we been doing during the pandemic? Mostly working, trying to play some games during the downtime, staying safe. As for what we're playing these days, that's a pretty long varied list.

Any probably quite a few More I didn't mention.

We have pretty much given up on Teamspeak 3, our server is still up but no one has used in quite a while. We are all hangin' in the MC Labs Discord the official MC Paradisesgarage community Discord. Join us if you haven't already!

Some of use have been streaming in Discord and on Twitch. Check out and Subscribe to our streamers: (more to be added)

Vibraniumvalor

Front page update! Woot! Only took 4 years!

News, March 2016

Swift62 — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:48:00 GMT

So, in 2016 gaming is all OVER the place. We have so many great games to choose from, it's akin to finding yourself in a candy shop with ADHD and a sweet tooth. If we want to play a MOBA, there's DOTA 2, LoL, or Heroes of the Storm. Like survival games? There's great games like ARK, Rust, or The Forest. The number of good MMOs out now makes it daunting to start one let alone invest time, simply because you could be missing out on the next big thing. Looking to the future, we have Star Citizen, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Doom, Battleborn, and Overwatch just to name a few. All potentially great games. Lastly, let's not forget that this is the year Virtual Reality is really getting its foothold on gaming with the release of Oculus for PC.

To Business: it has been a while since everyone has been active in posting about their various adventures in games, the interwebs, or real life. So, let's help kick start the initiative to get more involved with each other. Whether our adventures have been in real life or a digital playground, let's post some pictures or blog about it in the forums. Several members right now are playing The Division and have already taken screenshots of some fun times they've had. Let's get those posted to media for everyone to see! Personally, I'm trying to get a MC Labs guild started in Black Desert Online, so hopefully I'll have some funny screenshots and stories to post on the forums.

To sum it all up, let's start sharing our thoughts and experiences with each other again. We're all unique, awesome individuals with a new perspective to put on things. Post your story, ask for advice, hit us up with that dankest meme! After all, what's the internet for if not to share information and network (and kittens, can't forget kittens)?

Minecraft FTB Ultimate Pack

ParaDOX — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:29:00 GMT

FTB or Feed The Beast for those unfamiliar with this most epic collection of mods for Minecraft is now live on our latest Minecraft server. This is a collection of dozens of Minecraft Mods all packaged together nicely in a ready to play launcher that keeps all of your mods up to date and ready to play.

Join our TeamSpeak server for more info.

In fact Join our TeamSpeak server for all the latest news about what is going on in our ever shrinking community... Those that are still with us hang out there on a regular basis.

Some of us still dabble in Minecraft, AO, Dystopia, CS:GO, TSW, WoW (yes even WoW...), and a few other random games. Most of us are still dedicated PC gamers forsaking the trappings of DLC and the lack of customization that the console users enjoy.

I am still involved with the AO community and host the AOSpeak server. A TeamSpeak server dedicated to the players of Anarchy Online. This is an ambitious project now in it's second year, providing a place for all AO players to communicate. There are free channels dedicated to any Organization (AO's equivalent of a guild) that can be automatically setup and controlled by the Org's leaders. You must join via an in-game bot named Speak, this is done by sending a tell to the bot in game. Instructions and connect links are then provided by the bot. The bot associates your in-game Alt (character or Toon) ID with your TeamSpeak ID. This enables the bot to show who is online in-game or who is the leader of an Org etc. Visit the AOSpeak site and Forums for more information.

These days I listen to a variety of streams, here are some of them:

Pain Dealers Radio an Anarchy Online radio station that plays all kinds of music.
ParadisesGarage Radio (Of course!)
We're Alive! A survival story. This is a story based Podcast that is based on a survival story set in a Zombie apocalypse.

I'm always open to suggestions as to new stuff to listen to.

Not your usual update but things are unusual these days. TeamSpeak to you soon!

Everything is True!!!!

ParaDOX — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:50:00 GMT

As some of you may know. Funcom's new MMO The Secret World has been in Beta for a long time now. I have had the privelege of being in the Closed Beta since last year. I unfortunately did not have enough time to properly enjoy it, however the little bits that I have seen are amazing! I did manage to get my hands on a bunch of closed beta keys and promptly gave them away to anyone who seemed interested.

The Beta phase is over and the Game will be going live on 7/3/2012. For those who were smart enough to Pre-Order the game early access begins on 6/29/2012, 4 days before the official launch. I am one of those early access players and will get in as early as I can and make a new home for MC Labs.

I know of several community members that will be discovering The Secret World. If you haven't checked it out yet, it's a must see game! Very original, in both theme and design. Best GUI in a MMO so far.

I don't want to go into too much at this time. I will say that our MC Labs site will be used for TSW and AO moving forward.

Check out this trailer...

(Please visit the site to view this media)

I hope to see all of you in there...

Front Page News - February 2012

Rush Retrospective — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:09:00 GMT

Big changes are coming. Please stay tuned to new updates including new happenings and servers.

Front Page News - April 2011

DarkAstraea — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:55:00 GMT

Who is this writing a news post on the front page!? Damn you Rupert!!

Anyways, as most of us know Portal 2 came out just yesterday at a midnight, well 12:30 AM EST, early release. Valve had the entire Steam gaming community playing a dozen games from their April Fool's prank release and people were starting to think whether they were being trolled because it took an eternity to complete a game. I do believe that Valve planned to do a midnight release all along, but just used this to play with the community. During the final minutes of the countdown GLaDOS had cheated her way into insta-finishing the last two games (Killing Floor and Super Meat Boy) required to restart her systems and initiate the release. You can view everything about the April Fool's event they did and view the countdown page below:

[http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1824635]
[http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/]

A good batch of us started to play and have been quite pleased over all with the gameplay and story. I have completed both the Single Player and Multiplayer (Coop) campaigns and can fully say that it was overall much more invigorating and exciting than Portal 1. I was a little disappointed with the Coop being too easy and a bit short, but it was still good regardless. The ending for the Single Player campaign was extremely well done, the credits song was decent but still not as good as Portal 1's. The total amount of gameplay to complete everything is about 10 hours, 5 hours each for Single Player and Multiplayer depending on who your partner is.

A well known feature to Team Fortress 2 is hats, and Valve did not waste any time adding this feature to Portal 2. You can buy in-game clothing (hats, flags, etc.) to modify your Cooperative Testing robots. There are a variety of items to buy from, but you can buy everything in the store currently for about $30-$40 with the discount package they have (a money grab I know, but who cares it's Valve). I guess you could call it Portal 2's Limited Edition *harhar*. There is also a trading option available, but it is currently unavailable and will probably be added later on as well as other store items. Another little feature they added to the main menu was an interactive trailer for the movie "Super 8", I had no idea what this was but the scenes were outstanding, the Source engine has come a really long way.

Let's see...what else can I ramble on about...As everyone knows, Valve is a leading supporter of Mods and Indie development. The SDK for Portal 2 has not yet been released yet but it will be later on. We can expect a lot of mods from the gaming community and get even more, challenging, puzzles. If you haven't grabbed it, you can get it for $35 at Amazon or a few other places that are doing discounts. The PS3 version of the game is pretty much a 2 in 1 deal, one for your PS3 and one for your computer. So that wraps it up for the Portal 2 segment.

In other news:

Minecraft 1.5 was released with many new features
Minecraft will be phasing out of beta in November this year
Duke Nukem Forever was delayed another month and will release June 14th (NA), June 11th (INT)
AMD/ATI released its Dual Chip video card 6990 this month, fan is loud but still packs a punch
nVidia also released its Dual Chip video card GTX590, packs a punch as well, but there is little room for OCing (nVidia removed key parts to not allow voltage OCing)
Diablo 3 will have more content overall than Diable 2 period [Interview Clickeh]
Crysis 2 ends up being a slap in the face for PC gamers, no DX11 on release only DX9 [Patch supposedly coming with DX11]
- Also, no sandbox editor
Battlefield 3 looking amazing, but we'll have to wait till November to see if it is or not
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim still in development
Nintendo released the 3DS
Call of Duty: Black Ops to be releasing Mod tools in May (Good news?)
Dragon Age II releases, a lot excited about hidden DRM and shorter than expected campaign
Rumors about Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo preparing next-generation console dev teams

On a side note: I saw that Portal 2 was nicely sponsored by ATI, was getting excellent 300 FPS while playing in Windowed Mode.w

Troop Dr.Phil was here. Secretly.

Front Page News - February 2011

Rush Retrospective — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:35:00 GMT

OK, OK. Yes it has been a long time since Paradises Garage has been updated with some new news. But I am here to explain.

As it was evident in our last front page update, we are/we're playing Anarchy Online. Anarchy Online gave us the opportunity to expand our community through the development of the MC Labs Org and with that, this site was not functioning very well to provide appropriate material for our new demographic. This does not mean that Paradises Garage or MC is now defunct, rather far from it. We felt that it would be more appropriate to open up a new site dedicated to our Anarchy Online patrons full of resources that anyone would expect from MC and Paradises Garage. With that said, at the top of this page in the menu bar, there is a link to the MC Labs site for anyone to check out, especially if you are here for AO material (www.mc-labs.org/mcweb3). Please keep in mind that that site is still currently under development (It is fully functional, but still have some kinks to work out).

But enough with the old, were here with the new. I am proud to say that we have actually found a new game to play, that game being Minecraft. If you haven't heard of Minecraft, I fear that you have either been living under a rock for the last year or have spent that time trying to find the secret room in Starwars_Trench2. Nonetheless, Minecraft is a sandbox game based on a very simple java engine. As unsatisfying as that sounds, Minecraft brings very interesting concepts to the table. One of those being the near infinite play area of the server. If you spawn and immediately start walking in one direction, by the time you make it to a boundary, you will wonder how your fellow man settled on Mars (its OK, you were on the Ringworld the entire time). Below the endless surface, there are intricate mazes of mines that are also open to exploration in which you can find your materials to start the building process. Yes, unlike garrys mod, you cannot spawn materials and just start building, oh no, you gotta work to utilize that imagination.

Now, this game is not free, but its not overly expensive either. go to www.minecraft.net and buy yourself a copy. It is about $20 dollars a copy which isn't a killer compared to all those Call of Duty's you have bought over the years. Once you buy an account, the downloader is very small and will take no time to download, install and start playing. Once you have all of that taken care of, join us in our Team Speak and we will give you our server information - (Will very likely be posted on the site once I clarify with ParaDOX that is OK to publish the server information).

A few other plugs I want to throw into this edition of the Front Page News since it has been 9 months or so since you last had one. Portal 2 is up for preorder on Steam. I don't know that many people who disliked Portal 1 so if you were a fan of the game, you definitely want to be sure to get a hold of the preorder to save 5 bucks off the overall cost of the game. If you haven't played Portal, if you join the TeamSpeak and talk to me, I have a few full copys I can gift over so you can try it out.

Duke Nukem Forever actually has a release date - Enough said!

And finally - I have always been dedicated to pushing free advertisements for team Dystopia, but this time, its not about Dystopia. A few months back, Team Dystopia became Puny Human Games and is currently in a closed beta for their supporters for their upcoming game Blade Symphony. Blade Symphony is a source mod melee game where players go head to head with only swords in very attractive surroundings. I personally don't know too much about the game since I have yet to have tested it, but you can check out more information on the game at http://www.blade-symphony.com/

Until next time meatbags.

Front Page News - May 2010

Swordguy — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:12:00 GMT

Todays news is brought to you by the letters: AO

So, where do I begin?

Well, you start off in newbie island, where you have to talk to Brandon Thor... wait, wait... that's old news.

If you don't already know, the MC Labs Org (guild) in Anarchy Online has been making its name, and becoming a buzz-word on the Rimor server for quite some time now amongst the elite players of possibly the best mmorpg ever made. How so you may ask? Well, let's make a list shall we:

- It has become well known that MC Labs is responsible for the discovery of the Shadowlands.

- Due to the brilliance found amongst MC Lab org-members, a research experiment gone awry alerted the Aliens to the presence of life on Rubi-ka.

- MC Labs is now famous for their "Buff Bank" that has become well established in the heart of Borealis, where newbs and penniless players alike can come at any time and receive limitless free buffs at peak hours.

- Our fearless Org leader, known as Paradox, has struck fear into the hearts of the elite. His shrewd business tactics easily strong arm the best wheelers and dealers in the game to fork out more for less in a harsh economy that brings even the rich to their knees when acquiring phats.

- Many people respect the MC Labs organization so much so, that it is not uncommon these days for someone to hand you free credits for no reason at all.

The above list is only a taste of what we do and who we are in AO.

The real news today I save for last:

Due to the quick marketing sense of Paradox and the fearless members of the MC Labs org, we have recently acquired a beautiful large org city. Within days, people have already begun flocking in from all over Rimor to catch a glimpse of MC Lab Splendor. Toons, ready and eager to spend a mil or two will find no better place to spend their hard earned ingot pearl sector 10 credits than in our player shops.

Now...(Queue Epic music) Feast your eyes on these rare and soon to be famous photos of our beautiful org city. This is truly an exciting time to be an org member of MC Labs on Rimor. So much Possibility, and so much yet to discover. Go kill some aliums everyone, go kill some aliums. Full size photos: Photo 1 photo 2

Troop was here.

Front Page News - September 2010

Rush Retrospective — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:56:00 GMT

UPDATE: The game is still due to release. Team Dystopia gave Valve all the necessary files days ago, but to Valve notorious reputation, They cannot release a game on time. It will come!

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This front page has been hijacked in order to announce a wide-spread gaming phenomenon. This is not to be taken lightly and should be experienced by all gamers alike. Please take the next few minutes to read what we (DataTrust) have posted or

WE WILL FIND YOU

Dystopia 1.3 will released this Friday, September 10th. It is a free HL2:Orange Box mod available for download over steam. The following is the release article

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"We're pleased to say that we're finally nearing the end of the road with version 1.30. Dystopia's upcoming patch will add Steamworks functionality, bug fixes, balance tweaks and a host of other download-worthy changes all on top of the Orange Box engine. We're very excited to be nearing the end of this leap for us, as bringing over Dystopia to a newer engine, performing code rewrite after code rewrite and frequent map recompiling, has made us more impatient than ever to share it with the general public.

Between the last news update and now, longstanding Dystopia third party map developer Fedio was made into an official Dystopia developer. With him, he brings the community favorite Fusion and a lot of level design talent. Fusion has since received a design and art overhaul and has quickly escalated itself to the favorite among Supporters who have played it. We're very excited to show for the first time, the official 1.30 revamp and release of Fusion!

As a general announcement, we would like to let everyone know that our Supporters program will be taking a hiatus after the release of 1.30. Supporters will still have all of their perks available to them, however you will be unable to donate and become a new Supporter during this period. We will be making some fundamental changes to the program which all the current Supporters will benefit from -- but more on that later! Support now if you'd would like to get in on the good stuff for the future!

So really... it's time for us to push 1.3 out the door, like a mother bird first gives the gift of flight to a newborn. We hope that the community enjoys this update to Dystopia that we have labored so hard on; we certainly enjoy it! Dystopia version 1.30 will be released on Friday September 10th over Steam. We have no exact time when it will be released, as that's not determined by us, but we hope that everyone will join us in our IRC Channel on Friday to patiently await the release!

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The following article/pictures can be viewed at www.dystopia-game.com

Oh, and happy labor day - GET BACK TO WORK!

Posted By Rush Retrospective (Tom Sawyer) at 7:12pm EST 09/06/10

Front Page News - April 2010

Rush Retrospective — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:33:00 GMT

What can we say its Easter - the only front page update needed is this:

.......

Ok, for real news I guess - We're all playing Anarchy online. Everyone should join. Enough said.

Front Page News - February 2010

ParaDOX — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:45:00 GMT

Well, it's 2010...

Yeah I know it's a been a while since the last update. But there hasn't been too much worth posting on the front page.

What have we all been up to? There are two new MC's, Axile and Swordguy. We have been playing all kinds of games these days and not staying too long on any particular ones. One staple around here has been COD4 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with a new Star Wars Mod, Galactic Warfare by Black Monkeys.

In other news...

Infinity Ward has succeded in their plan to have COD MW2 drop off in popularity due to the lack of real multiplayer support and a short single player campaign. According to Xfire's Game stats, Call of Duty Modern Warfare is in second place for the last 83 days. Modern Warfare 2 enjoyed a brief popularity but from what I see on my friends lists, it has steadily diminished since the first few weeks of it's release. The popularity of the previous versions carried into MW2 but MW2 can't stand on it's own like the other games in the series. I'm not saying it isn't popular or not being played, it's number 4 on the X-fire list as of this writing, but it should have been number one or two below WoW and stayed there for a long time. As far as I am concerned they dropped the ball big time. I for one will not even consider this game for the single player until it's about $10. Considering that COD4 hasn't changed in price for quite some time I have a long time to wait.

It's almost time to get back into Anarchy Online...

ParaDOX

Front Page News - October 18th, 2009

Rush Retrospective — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:24:00 GMT

This blog post needs no introduction. We are in the final stretch of the release of the most anticipated FPS sequel of the season. November 10th, 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hits the shelves (or steam store for those who prefer digital distribution). Up to this point, I, along side hundreds of thousands of players, could not keep our eyes of the amazing trailers and other game spoilers which only increased our temptations 10 fold like a dog receiving table scraps on Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, this past weekend a 'spoiler' has horrifically turned our once begging desires into sour despise. That spoiler being the death to freedom of individualism, unity and choice in both the interactive and competitive gaming communities. Welcome to the Age of Gaming Socialism.

I have always been one for simplicity in my gaming choices. I game with the members of the MC/Paradises Garage community any time available. If there is a community member playing a game that I want to play, you bet I would be joining that same server right behind them. Most typically the server I would be joining would be an {MC} Paradise server. I know what I like, and that's fellowship in community and familiar surroundings, hence my choices. And unless you sported a [CoR] tag, I respected your being and opinion because it was most likely like mine: you know what you like, and what you like is fellowship through community and familiar surroundings. There is no idea to trump that logic. This is the gaming we know and love. With Modern Warfare 2, this is a thing of the past.

Modern Warfare 2 introduces you to a new reality where Infinity Ward (The creators of Call of Duty MW2) tells you where to go, who to play with and what your going to play. All made possible by the recent announcement that there will be 'no dedicated servers.' With this brilliant concept, Infinity Ward helps simplify your already simplified choice in server choice. So Instead of loading your favorites, and choosing one of the only 2 servers you play at, you get to press a similar 'join game' button which magically whisks you away to a server with a potentially similar excitement and fun level as Delaware. Upon entering this whimsical cesspool of unnecessary e-thugs and hypocritical logic-enforcing 'mature' peace-keepers (which reminds you of political gerrymandering of a more racist America), you will find sanctity in the one player who prefers to use the team chat for the use of strats rather than the reinforcement of MTV's latest update on rapper wars, who will then quickly part from you upon the next map change. After about 20 minutes of feeling the metaphorical chains of oppression you will probably enter a state of appreciation for gaming communities...if you do not quit the game first.

But there is a way to prevent this from ever happening, because after all I only saw that in my flashforward. First of all, everyone should sign this petition to allow dedicated servers. Dedicated servers is the absolute essence of PC gaming, for it is the oasis for communities, clans, orgs, guilds, mods, and game-play that we are all ready accustomed to. To sign this petition, please visit http://www.petitiononline.com/dedis4mw/petition.html and sign. This is serious business (just like everything else on the internet), and thus should be signed with all seriousness. Secondly, If you preordered this game, I would recommend canceling that preorder. That does a few things. 1, it saves you money and time. Since this game is going to be distributed through steam for security purposes, preordering a digitally distributed game would be like calling in your order to McDonald'ss for it to be ready in a few hours. 2, a sufficient reduction of preorders upon a singleconceptt will scare the hell out of this company just trying to make a buck. 3, why waste your money on a game where you may have to experience the feelings portrayed in the paragraph above?

After such an outcry that has gone on these last few days, I see no fear in the above example coming true, but until this changes, I for one will not fall victim to gaming socialism.

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As Kanye West Would Say: Robert Bowling, I'm going to let you finish failing, but Call of Duty 4 had the best dedicated servers of all time

Click here to join us in the forums to discuss this.

Front Page News - July 4th 2009

ParaDOX — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:18:00 GMT

Happy Independence Day to all of our American community members, and to everyone else, have a nice weekend!

Safely enjoy the fireworks! I'm probably gooing to stay home and watch them on TV this year while gaming online.

The Game of choice these days is Anarchy Online. For those of you who have played AO in the past you should take another look into it. There is a ton of new content, new expansions and of course there is the Free accounts (Froob Account) which are still tons of fun. Other than the upcoming Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 there aren't any other games I'm interested in for now.

There are a few new voices in Ventrilo these days. Jump in and say Hi. We also added a Ventrilo status bar to the Server list so you can see who is on without joining in, not sure if that is a good idea or not, lol....

In other news... Several celebrities have recently passed away.

It seems like Troop died again (figuratively speaking). He has once again faded into obscurity.... oh well it's fun while it lasts...

Front Page News - April 10, 2009

ParaDOX — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:53:00 GMT

Well, April fools is over...

The funny thing is how few even noticed or cared....

So now for the real site update!

Some of which was said is true, such as: This was originally a House Music site, and then became a gaming site. However as all of you know, this is now much better known as a Gaming community so it will remain. There is no reason we can't have the House music stuff going on as well. The game server have dropped in their popularity, gone are the days of full servers for us. CS1.6 is still fun but essentially most people have moved on. So while I think we should shut down most of the servers we will not shut them all down. I am going to post a vote in the forums to see which servers you all think should be saved.

Your Vote counts! GO Vote!

We are keeping the COD4 and CODWaW servers up of course because that's pretty much all we play these days. So Join us and get in the Vent!

Oh and Troop has visited us but is still pretty scarce! is here.

Front Page News - April 1, 2009

ParaDOX — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:01:00 GMT

The format of the site is about to change.

This site was originally a House Music site, then it became the gaming site that we all know. However, it has become static, no one is really using the site as a gaming site. I have become more into the music and have decided to switch the site and community back to it's original format.

There is already a small following of people who have been listening to the music I have been streaming with the help of my close frien John Mateo of Mateo and Matos fame.

This is the end of an era...

I see very little interest in the site or the servers these days so, it is time to move on.

Some of the changes that will be coming up:

Game servers will be shut down shortly.
Main Ventrilo will either become the new House music chat medium or shutdown
Admin Ventrilo server will stay up for now.
Both Streams will be utilized for House music.
Game related Forum content will be moved to the archive, accessible but archived.
New Music forums and groups are being created to facilitate the House Music communities needs.
Anime Blogs can stay as long as they like due to the fact that they are still updated and read.

P.S. Troop is no longer here. Troop has left the building. he has moved on to other things.
We all wish him well...

Front Page News - 1/19/2009

ParaDOX — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:11:00 GMT

The website upgrade is complete!

I have been working on this upgrade since last year, and was planning on finishing it "eventually", most of you know how my scheduling is... However a major security update forced my hand and I had to complete the upgrade sooner than planned. Basically the site is the same, it's still based on Community server, but now it's the latest version 8.5 SP1. The Upgrade went smoothly all that was basically required is recreating the theme based on one of the new themes.

New Features:

New Home page, once logged in you can see a lot more information on the front page such as:
- Left Side:
  - The Latest - Quick Blurbs about whatever...
  - MC Server List - All of our servers and quick links to join them.
  - Favorites - Lists items that you have added to your favorites.
- Center:
  - Current Message
  - Front Pages news now reads the most current News Blog
  - Your Conversations, no need to go to your profile to see if there are any messages for you.
  - Friends Activity, see what your friends are up to, shows posts, blogs, media, announcements, friends, etc...
- Right Side:
  - Your Avatar
  - Groups you belong to (More on Groups)
  - Latest Blogs
  - Latest Forum Posts
  - Latest Downloads
  - Latest User Images
  - Latest Wiki's (Yes Wiki, we now Have Wiki's!)
  - Your Files - You can store files here now, create subfolders etc, share them etc...
My Home Page - Profile Page has new features too. Lots more information.
Downloads and Phots have been merged into the Media Gallery. It now supports various media file types and most file types.
User no longer get a personal Photo Gallery. Not a mojor loss because most users didn't even use this feature. I deleted the empty galleries of all users that were not members of the following groups:
- MC
- Beta Testers
- Mappers
Wiki - Yes we now have our own Wiki section. We will add Wiki's for various topics. Suggestions are welcome!
Groups. It's like a community within a community. Each Group can have it's own Blog, Forum, Media, Wiki, and custom Pages. We may create a Group for associated communities. Like The Foundation, if we revive it for another MMORPG.
Friends, Lets you stay in touch and keep track of your friends.

There are various other features that you will find or I may write about at a later date.

Lot's more information and it's easier to find.

In Other News...

Left 4 Dead is the most played game in the community these days, and our server does see some usage. There are some remnants of Age of Conan still around. Call of Duty World at War would be played a lot more if we could get our server up and running. We are missing the CD version of the files that can be patched for dedicated server. Counter-Strike will be picking up the pace again once we release our new Map and Mod. Still a work in progress! More info here

That's it for now... Enjoy the site, post anything you find that needs fixing so I can take care of it right away. We are using the Site maintenance and Repair Wiki for now.

Front Page News (11/21/2008 - 1/7/2009)

ParaDOX — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:34:00 GMT

Welcome to "The Foundation" and PG Gaming Community!

//Updated January 7th, 2009

Happy New Year!

A complimentary Front Page Update to keep you up to date on what really matters in the communities of Paradises Garage as well as the gaming world and Real Life.

New Starwars Map and Mod Coming soon!!!

The MC Mapping Community team headed by ParaDOX have been working on a new Starwars Map for CS 1.6. This promises to be a challenge both to us and the HL1 engine. The test compiles are already taking 10 + hours to complete. This map will make the starwars_trench series look small. We will announce the Beta testing for the map as soon as we are ready for the Beta stage. Check the Beta forums for more info.

Simultaneously the MC Modding Crew headed by Astraea (DarkMidoriko) are also working on a CS 1.6 Starwars Mod. It is already in the final stages of Alpha development. We will be setting up a dedicated server for this in the near future.

The combination of a new map and mod should keep the CS 1.6 starwars fans busy for months!

Call Of Duty (5) - World At War Released

We had a chance to play this game during its beta release stage and I must say, this game was AWESOME (despite their last release of COD3). Sadly, the beta was closed thus forcing our hands to go out and buy the full retail version. This game is currently available around the world in retail stores and is now available on steam for $49.99(US). Personally, this is what I was really waiting for, which is to get this game on steam. Now that its available, its only a matter of time until we will have games going in this game with a fully up to date server. When we finally get the Dedicated server files, it should still be available on IP/Port of 67.93.155.120:28960.

Left 4 Dead

Another recent game release, Left 4 Dead by Valve, has become some members latest desire. This game was played during the beta release by most members causing this game to have its own server (currently up to date). This game is also available on steam for $49.99(US) Our Public server is available to any member of our Steam MC Community and their friends at the following IP/Port of 67.93.155.118:27013 so be sure to keep an eye on that. The server is currently setup for Versus mode. Just join the server and have your friends follow you.

Quake 3

Although not in anyway new to the community nor the gaming world itself, this game has now emerged as another game we have currently found time to play. PG has a fully operational and available Quake 3 server available to all thouse who want to get back into this game. 67.93.155.120:27960 is the IP/Port. If you have Xfire you can click the link on the server list on the left to auto join us.

Also, {MC} now has an {MC} Community steam group which everyone is welcome to join. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/MCCommunity is the page to go visit where you are also able to join. If not, get in touch with an {MC} member to get an invite to join. We will be using this group for events (MC Reunion anyone?) and a board for you to see whats going on in this community.

-Posted by {MC}Rush Retrospective (November 21th, 2008 At Approx. 6:07 PM EST)

-Edit by {MC} Troop (November 22nd, 2008 At Approx. 9:19 PM EST)

-Edit by {MC}ParaDOX (January 7th, 2009 at approx, 8:29 AM EST)

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Front Page News (11/9/08 - 11/21/08)

Rush Retrospective — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:35:00 GMT

//Updated November 9th, 2008

A complimentary Front Page Update to keep you up to date on what really matters in the communities of Paradises Garage as well as the gaming world and Real Life.

Typically, we would enjoy a good melee of knives, stun grenades, claymores, C4 and hand grenades. COD4, one of the main fancies of the {MC} community over the last few months is for once, not the main topic of this update (although still a long time favorite for us). Instead, we are going back in time. 1944, a year of releasing the dogs, artillery strikes, and makin huts is todays focus. Thats right, we are now playing (for now) Call Of Duty 5 - World At War (beta). Many of us got a hold of beta keys for this beta on PC and it so far is not disappointing.....I'm going to buy it when it is released on Steam. If you come around to our vent (shut up and get in the vent), we can show you how to get a hold of a beta key so you can join us (it's free). Then you can join us at our server at 67.93.155.120:28960 which is a hardcore free-for-all/team death match server.

Also stay tuned for a new site update in the works...you will not be disappointed.

Troop was ~~not~~ here (hence why I'm ~~doing an update~~ lying to you).

-Posted by {MC}Rush Retrospective (November 9th, 2008 At Approx. 8:26 PM EST)

-Edited by {MC}Troop (November 10th, 2008 At Approx. 3:50 PM EST)

Front Page News (10/8/08 - 11/09/08)

Rush Retrospective — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:42:00 GMT

Welcome to "The Foundation" and PG Gaming Community!

//(Finally) Updated - October 08, 2008

An unroutinely update regarding additions and changes in the {MC} Community, gaming world and RL in general.

Not a very large update...maybe.

First update would be our current gaming appeal. It seems that AOC is more of a backseat passenger rather than the main driving force in the community at the moment. It is still being played...just not to its full extent. This does not mean it is dead. The foundation still exists, and one day live again...again. So if AOC is the back seat passenger, who is driving this vehicle down the freeway? No one, the car is about to run into the guard rail and fly over the overpass on another car -[CoR]. Instead we have upgraded to a friendly chopter (7 kills ftw). Thats right, COD4 is once again the new hotness in the {MC} gaming world. There is a pretty good game going on everyday starting around 8pm and lasts untill ?. Any one can get in on this game, but no mercy shall be shown, claymores don't descriminate...except against me. So shut up and get in the vent so you can get to the chopter if you want to live. Don't be a passenger in the car....or Hugh Jackman.

Portal: Prelude, a free portal mod which takes place before the GlaDOS take over of Aperture Science will be released this Friday to the public and is available to anyone who has Portal already installed on their PC. This mod is stated to be L O N G E R than the original portal as well as more story oriented. Ohh and harder...yeah, I should add that. The vALVE release of portal was too easy. The download will be available on our site Friday as well as the Portal Prelude site (www.portalprelude.com).

Download Portal Prelude: Here

Update Portal Prelude: Here

-Posted by {MC}Rush Retrospective (October 8th, 2008 At Approx. 12:50PM EST)

-Updated by {MC}Rush Retrospective (October 9th, 2008 At Approx. 6:24AM EST)

-Updated by {MC}Rush Retrospective (October 31st, 2008 At Approx. 8:43PM EST)

Front Page News (6/29/08 - 8/31/08)

Rush Retrospective — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:14:00 GMT

//Updated - June 29, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

What's happening in the MC community? Well for starters, Age of Conan was released a little over a month ago. It's an MMORPG based during the time of King Conan as written by Robert E. Howard back in the 1930s. The game is getting great reviews and is loved by most of the people I hear talking about it. There is some bad press as well due to some of the major bugs that affect some people. Some of which we have some fixes posted for, such as the OOM (Out of Memory Error)

Long Live The Foundation!

The Foundation is still growing. We are over 100 strong now! We are still recruiting quality, mature and dedicated team players. We have built our Tier 1 City, and intend on getting it to Tier 2 and 3 as soon as possible. If you are interested seek us out on the Bloodspire PVP Server or post in our Guild Forums. The AoC section of our Forums will grow as needed with new sections for Guild and AoC related information. We look forward to seeing you all in Hyboria!

The Guild forums section will be undergoing a restructuring in the coming weeks to allow for a more structured environment.

In other news, there are a few AoC holdouts, those that either don't want to pay per month or their computer can't handle AoC.

Ventrilo: It's where we live... If you really want to know what's going on with us, come visit us.

The site will be undergoing a Hyborian facelift when my schedule permits. I am open to suggestions and any graphical assistance is welcome. This theme will still be available to those who prefer it.

LLTF!

-Posted by {MC}ParaDOX (Posted June 29, 2008 at Approx. 12:00AM EST)

Front Page News (6/1/2008 - 6/29/2008)

ParaDOX — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:24:00 GMT

Welcome to "The Foundation" and PG Gaming Community!

//Updated - June 29, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

Long Live The Foundation!

The Guild forums section will be undergoing a restructuring in the coming weeks to allow for a more structured environment.

In other news, there are a few AoC holdouts, those that either don't want to pay per month or their computer can't handle AoC.

Ventrilo: It's where we live... If you really want to know what's going on with us, come visit us.

The site will be undergoing a Hyborian facelift when my schedule permits. I am open to suggestions and any graphical assistance is welcome. This theme will still be available to those who prefer it.

LLTF!

-Posted by {MC}ParaDOX (Posted June 29, 2008 at Approx. 12:00AM EST)

FPS Newsletter // Volume 1 // June 6th, 2008

Rush Retrospective — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:52:00 GMT

The FPS Newsletter

Cost: Free
Volume: Number One
Release Date: June 6th, 2008
Editor and Writer: Rush Retrospective
Website: www.paradisesgarage.com
Contact: RushRetrospective@paradisesgarage.com

Eternal Silence 3.0 Release

June 6th, 2008 - This day will mark an important day in 3rd party source mods everywhere, that is, a new long awaited update of the ever popular (at least in the minds of many sci-fi enthusiasts) Eternal Silence. This update, to version 3.0 is a total overhaul of the old release version 2.3 which came out last year. Many updates from 2.3 to 3.0 include:

New and Updated Ships/Vessels for both NGM and UTF
Updated Flight Systems
Updated Dogfight Systems
New and Updated Maps
New and Updated Objectives
New and Updated Scenery/Atmosphere/Skins
New and Updated Map Areas
New and Updated Models
Updated and More Pulsating Action/Fighting
And Much Much More

Upon this release, a new demo/teaser trailer was released to wet your taste buds. Before you check out this game, you should definitely check out the video below:

YouTube Source
File Swap Source // Download High Def.

Downloads

Client Download -- Eternal Silence 3.0 -- File Planet
Dedicated Server Download -- Eternal Silence 3.0 -- File Planet

Image Archive

Eternal Silence 3.0 Image Gallery

Battlefield Heroes

Listen up soldiers! This game is very tight under wraps...I mean seriously, you look on there website and you see very little change, but they are calling for a release this summer, so whats up. Here is what you need to keep a look out for:

OPEN BETA!

They have said a few times in the past that there will be a public beta. Currently, they initiated an online login system for The Battlefield Heroes Website which in my guess, may allow for limited "open beta" registration, depending on who signs up. In the past, I have seen sites have login systems where you register and you get practically...well nothing really. Then one day, POOF!, the online registration for some reason unknown, just disappears. In the past, this may signify as an e-mail collection bucket in which everyone who registered in a given time period will receive an e-mail to participate in "public beta." The use of a user name and password allows for those who did register to login to a secure location given by EA so they can play while saving their presets/characters etc. This theory may not be true but I have seen this in the past so for your own sakes, its always a good reason to register, even if in the end result, you get nothing, at least you gave it a shot in which something good may have possibly came out of it.
They are also looking for german and french speakers to help do some foreign language work for the game. If anyone wants to get behind the scenes look on this game and has those abilities, check out that website, you won't regret it.

More to come.

Front Page News (3/29/2008 - 6/1/2008)

ParaDOX — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:31:00 GMT

//Updated - March 29, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

So, the front page was getting a little stale, so I'm going to do something completely unheard of. I, {MC}Troop, have updated the front page of the site.

The {MC} Community would like to encourage everyone to participate in Earth Hour today. On Saturday, March 29, 2008 ~~(that's today)~~, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights (and any other electronics) for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone to conserve energy, save money, and support the environment. After all, most of us do live on Earth. If we plan to continue to live here, we need to take care of it.

What has the {MC} community been up to recently? Well, if you look to the left of this web page, you will see that we have added the Call of Duty 4 Server to the front page. We play CoD4 for a few hours each today, and we're starting to get more and more people to join in. Go get it! Don't forget to join us in vent while you play.

After over six years of dedication towards the {MC} community, our friend (space)Cash has been invited into the {MC} clan. This means that he is ~~now my equal~~ still a minion compared to me.

Between the Netherlinian elephant graveyard, the rants about bacon, the "no right click", and the "Troop is still here..." It's good to know that some people are finally understanding a bit a {MC}'s (and my) sense of humor. Actually, it only takes a little while on ventrilo with everyone here to understand these things, because they are primarily inside jokes.

Our source servers are down! Oh no! The machine died, and we have no time to fix it (because we're busy updating the site) // (or transfer the servers) right now. Hopefully nobody gets any cravings to play source, because they could be like this for a little while.
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the CS:Source server is up.

Starwars_Trench2, {MC}ParaDOX's ~~final~~ latest starwars_trench based map, has been uploaded to cstrike-planet (it only took roughly a year). It has yet to be accepted for downloading.

Troop was here...And Rush ~~Conquered...~~ wishes he conquered.

-Posted by {MC}Troop (Posted March 29, 2008 at Approx. 7:00PM EST)
-Edited by {MC}Rush Retrospective (March 30th, 2008 at Approx. 6:00PM EST)
-Reedited by {MC}Troop (April 1st, 2008 at Approx. 3:44PM EST)

Front Page News (1/11/08 - 3/29/08)

Rush Retrospective — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:01:00 GMT

//Updated - January 11th, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

As I lie in bed each morning I ask myself why I should place my feet on the floor, there are a few precious reasons that I've ever been able to come up with. Chance to escape Doded's morning breath? Sure. Cake. Its too early to eat it, yes. But people its never too early to think about it. And of course, the ever present possibility that I might finally happen upon Suicidal Youth and be able to give him the present I've been holding for him....BAM! Still, the most persuasive argument I've ever been able to come up with is the fact that I get to come to this community every day and help keep people entertained.

This front page update is mostly for the gaming world, since there has been much recent activity that just may change the {MC} community. Some involve the Half Life 1.6 engine. Some the source engine.

Haven't gotten Portal yet? Number one, I question how you have been living your life these last few months but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. And what you gotta do is to go over to Steam Powered and get yourself a copy of Portal: First Slice (by clicking here!). There is a catch, however. You MUST have an NVIDIA video card in your PC. Valve will automatically detect the video card and allow you to download this game. If you have Portal already, than you cannot get this. Although, don't fret! you can still get Half-Life2: Deathmatch, Half-Life2: Lost Coast and Peggle Extreme! The reasons for such an offer? NVIDIA and Valve have now formed an alliance, or so you can all it. For the most part, its like NVIDIA and Valve will coincide themselves so that Valve will produce their games more oriented toward the power of NVIDIA video cards. Sad to say though, ATI and Valve had a similar alliance/offer a few months back.

Speaking of bondings of two companies, Valve, as of yesterday, bought Turtle Rock Studios. What is Turtle Rock Studios? Well Turtle Rock Studios may be the basis of this current day community. Yes, Turtle Rock Studios are the makers of Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero and Counter-Strike: Source. They are also the makes of the anticipated Left 4 Dead coming out later this year. Before anyone jumps up and says "wait, valve has always owned counter-strike." Well, Turtle Rock Studios have always been the official owners of the Counter Strike series. Just like Team Garry is the official owners of Garrys Mod. Valve, before yesterday, were only the distributers and advertisers of this game and the game in turn was build off their engine. With this bonding, some good, which we hope may come out of this. We can only hope that Valve (although we won't hold our breath), will expand the potential of source by adding vehicles into the game. Then, and only then, will we see a Starwars_Trench_Source.

Only 11 minutes after the purchase of Turtle Rock Studios, Valve released an update for Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero updating the in game ads in 1.6 and the official placement of in game ads to Condition Zero. This may be a very dangerous move made by Valve and is a threat to all gamers of a generation of online games with in game ads. Leave it to Valve to kill beauty for a quick buck.

Eternal-Silence, although a mod that we haven't publicly touched lately has made an update. It seems that this amazing mod is looking for beta testers. Many of us from the community have experienced beauty of an ever changing game throughout the beta tests of Dystopia. This means were jumping onto this opportunity. What does this mean to you? It means if you hope to find us on a Sunday afternoon, than you too better register on their forums and make a post telling them you want to beta test. You can find this by heading over to Eternal-Silence and hitting up this thread.

Recently, I purchased the old [CoR] site and its making me so happy. Currently, the front page probably looks better than it ever did under [CoR]'s ownership. It has the great effect of our space (or cyber-space) imperialism with our nations flag into new territory. But why would we stop there? Ohhh yeah, thats right. Just the other day, I acquired the old [CoR] server IP! Thats right, that last dying breaths of [CoR] are now sealed in a jar on Rush's shelf. The IP is 66.254.117.182:27015 and has the best of {MC}! 24/7 Starwars2 under the [CoR] name without the CoRulosis. And Reign isn't even banned! Everyone wins.

Until next time...