Blogosphere
Why Do You Read Random Battle?
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I just read Jaye’s latest post over at Journeys with Jaye, and it got me thinking about the writing I’ve been doing here at Random Battle. The focus of this blog has never been very much about my personal gaming sessions, but I also don’t consider this a hard news blog. I’m certainly not posting [...]
World of Warcraft Resources: WoW Insider
Sunday, September 14th, 2008I wanted to take a moment and give a shout-out to WoW Insider today. WoW Insider is one of the sister sites of Massively, and if you’re a fan of World of Warcraft, you want to read them. I’m pretty consistently amazed by both the knowledge of the game and passion for playing that their [...]
Experimenting With Ads
Saturday, September 13th, 2008You may have noticed over the last two weeks that ads have started appearing on my site. It was a small experiment on my part to see how lucrative it was. When I started Random Battle, I had made the decision to not have ads on it because I find them distracting and annoying. However, [...]
Open Beta? More Like Free Trial
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Can we stop pretending that an open beta is anything but a free trial? This complaint ties in with a post I made last year where I complained about the practice of using an open beta as a marketing tool. Whether they openly admit it or not, many companies do exactly that. I don’t know [...]
Free Subscriptions to Online Games for Bloggers
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008I haven’t really paid attention to what people have been saying in response to Tobold’s full disclosure post (wherein he publically stated that he got a media account for Warhammer Online), but based on the hubbub at other blogs it sounds like people are being pretty negative about it. I completely agree with Mr. Jennings [...]
Housekeeping Stuff — New Links
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008I just went through the links on Virginworlds and a number of the more obscure sites I read and added a whole mess of new gaming blogs to my Google reader. Too many to list, actually, or I would. Any that don’t get pruned will eventually show up on my sidebar anyway.
I like to do [...]
Warhammer Online - Analyzing the Response
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I’m not going to give you my long-winded impression of Warhammer Online because 1) I didn’t play it long enough in beta for a proper review, and 2) everyone on the internet has been exploding with that information since the NDA belatedly dropped this morning. I suggest you hit any one (or all) of those [...]
Ranting Into the Ether
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008My friend Sam pointed me towards Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog (former writer for Time, WoW fan), where he highlights this little gem of a quote from the McCain camp:
“If the shareholders of The New York Times ever wonder why the paper’s ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than [...]