Weekly Poll: Favorite Festival

As the end of the Anniversary events draw near, we at CSTM thought a fun poll would be to ask which of the LOTRO festivals is your favorite.

What are Lotro Traits & Deeds?

What are Traits & Deeds? Deeds are like “special goals” that reward your character with a title, skill, Turbine Points, or trait. For this guide, we’re focusing on the trait aspect of Deed rewards....

Review: Altec Lansing InMotion AIR

Altec Lansing has a 70-year history in audio tech, and the expertise it's accrued over that time is evident in the InMotion Air wireless speakers. The sound quality is great. Altec Lansing hasn't cut...

Review: Veho Mimi Qube Wi-Fi Speaker System

The Veho Mimi Qube Wi-Fi looks deceptively simple. It's a single small speaker that can fit in the palm of your hand, but it's capable of more than first seems possible. The size of...

Review: Canon Pixma MG5250

As you might expect from a Canon printer, the Pixma MG5250 has clearly been designed with amateur photographers in mind. Thankfully, it does photos justice with excellent colour reproduction, especially when printing on photo...

Lenovo IdeaPad S205 11.6-Inch Netbook Available Now

Lenovo has started selling their newest 11.6-inch netbook ‘IdeaPad S205‘ via its online store. This mini laptop can be yours for a starting price of $499. In case you didn’t remember, the IdeaPad S205...

Portal 2 Update Released

Updates to Portal 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:Portal 2Fixed: Occasional crash after Alt-Tab/minimizing or running in a window...

Now Available – Universe Sandbox

Universe Sandbox, the ultimate space simulator, is now available on Steam and is 10% off until May 6th at 10AM Pacific Time.Create and destroy on a scale you’ve never imagined! Spawn a massive...

Bullroarer: Pineleaf Previews Update 3

Today we will look into the new skirmishes: Attack at Dawn and The Icy Crevasse. These are the first new non-epic skirmishes to be introduced since the original release of the skirmish system.

New Release – Capsized

Capsized is now available on Steam and is 10% off through May 5th!Your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. Using your jetpack, and tools such as the Gravity Hook, navigate...

Weeklong Sale – Sol Survivor 50% Off

Sol Survivor is now available for 50% off until May 6th at 10AM Pacific Time!Jump in to intense turret defense action! Build turrets to defend your colony and the innocent colonists within. Smash...

LEAD: Prologues

CSTM's LEAD takes you through each of the individual race's Prologues, up to the start of Volume 1 Book 1

Ask Elb: Why are Champ-tanks Squishier than Guards?

Morlag of Landroval asks: Why are champs in glory, with a shield and heavy armor, still so much squishier than guards? Is it the guard reactives or some other mechanic I'm missing?

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Recommended Reading: Cosmetic LOTRO

One of my favorite new blogs recently added to my feed reader has to be Cosmetic LOTRO. It would simply be greedy of me to keep this blog to myself!

Player Achievements for the Week

Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you’ve accomplished this past week.

Hydrophobia Prophecy preview

Hydrophobia Prophecy is being released on May 9th, but before you get excited I should warn you that this is not the next installment of the series that was originally marketed as a trilogy. No, this...

Lenovo IdeaPad G770 17.3-Inch Sandy Bridge Laptop

Lenovo is getting ready to drop a new Sandy Bridge laptop for the mass market. Known as the IdeaPad G770, the system sports a 17.3-inch 1600 x 900 display, a choice of either Intel...

Sol Survivor Update Released

Updates to Sol Survivor have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:Sol SurvivorAdded campaign levels to Survival Co-op.Fixed multiplayer survival times not...

Gigabyte GS-AH6G3N 14-inch Laptop

The new Gigabyte GS-AH6G3N 14-inch laptop supports Intel’s new 32nm micro-architecture and the LGA 1155 socket, allowing the laptop to operate with the new Intel Core processor family, which brings a 25% performance improvement...