Archive for July, 2007
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Monday, July 30th, 2007You know how I was talking about how it makes me sad that my kids won’t get to play the games I love because the games won’t be technologically impressive by then? Well, I was hunting around on the web today for fun, and look what I found. It’s a homebrew 3D remake of Chrono […]
How I Spent My Weekend: A Reflection
Sunday, July 29th, 2007I got up on Saturday morning and for the first time in a while I felt like playing something other than an MMO. This was strange, because for some reason, single player games don’t usually do it for me these days any more. I don’t know if it’s the relative brevity of the content, the […]
Theft as Motivation
Thursday, July 26th, 2007We now return you to your regularly scheduled MMO commentary… I have a group of friends that I play pen and paper D&D with on a regular basis. Every Tuesday night, we huddle together in a basement, order four pizzas, drink a ton of mountain dew, and pretend to be heroic adventurers on epic quests. […]
Hey, Look At Me! I’m Getting a Free Dagger!
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Well, Amber sold out. Can you believe her? I mean, you go to someone’s website on a regular basis for thoughtful MMO commentary, and next thing you know they’re a crony for KingofSwords.com. King of Swords sells swords, so it’s kind of related to fantasy MMOs I suppose, but I’ve lost my faith in her. […]
I Must Have A Spectral Tiger
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007Oh. My. God. Lookie:
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That would be the new mount available in the latest expansion to the WoW card game. It’s the rarest card in the set, and I absolutely must have one for my blood elf rogue. Unlike previous vanity mounts, this one is actually a real mount. It comes in both level 40 and […]
It’s Cool That Some Politicians Are Playing Games…
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007… but this GamePolitics news item made me chuckle. It looks like we have a Senator who also plays a level 70 Priest in World of Warcraft. Cool, huh? Finally gamers have some long-awaited clout in the Senate. Nice!
Except, oh, wait… he’s not a Senator… he’s a House of Representatives congressman from… where? Guam. […]
FusionFall: Cartoon Network’s New Game
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007This is genius. For those of you who don’t feel like wading through a lengthy press release, Cartoon Network is making an MMOG. With so many possibilities for a virtual world based on their many cartoon universes, it must have been hard to pick just one to set their game in— so they didn’t. FusionFall […]
Why Do You Hate Friendship, Mr. MMO Designer?
Thursday, July 19th, 2007How often have you seen this happen:
Someone buys a game that just came out and sinks 40 hours into playing. He has a mid-level character and a decent amount of money and items, and then he finds out that a friend of his is also playing and has a similarly-leveled character… on a different server. […]
Gaming Isn’t Ours For Much Longer
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Raph’s talking about it. Razorwire’s talking about it. PlayNoEvil’s talking about it.
If you’ve been living under a rock, here’s what everyone is talking about:
Last night at the Digital Life preview a Mattel rep–who, just to make the conversation extra surreal, actually looked sort of like Barbie–told me that in the first 60 days of its […]
I’m Feeling Especially Orcish Today
Monday, July 16th, 2007We all know that many players identify with their MMO characters on some level. It’s hard not to– you spend a good amount of time controlling these toons and running around in their shoes. Lots of people tend to make characters that share features with their real life self, be it age, coloring, or body […]
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