News

Update for 2025!

2025-03-18T22:09:00Z

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

2020-12-08T23:00:00Z

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

2016-03-18T01:48:00Z

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

2013-03-16T18:29:00Z

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!!!!

2012-06-28T21:50:00Z

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

2012-02-25T05:09:00Z

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

Front Page News - April 2011

2011-04-20T12:55:00Z

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.