By Frank on November 26, 2008
The other day I was jawing with a friend about MMO development, how it’s changed over the years, what are the significant changes, and how great Chinese takeout is (hey, why talk all business). The conversation was going pretty normally until he started talking about how bad developers had it, saying, “It must be real [...]
Posted in Gaming, Internet, Uncategorized | Tagged development, Gaming
By Frank on November 26, 2008
Looks like that neato YouTube-distributed show “The Guild” is coming to an XBox distribution near you.
See that? There’s hope for all the rest of the millions of people putting up their ass (sometimes literally) on YouTube in the faint glimmer of a chance that they might be discovered. Who knows – you could be the [...]
Posted in Gaming, Internet | Tagged Gaming, youtube
By Frank on November 24, 2008
So, as many folks are reporting, the MMO Tabula Rasa, Richard Garriott’s latest foray into insanity, has officially been declared dead. Lots of reasons from a declining playerbase to game-breaking bugs, to short-sighted development, to Richard’s mental state have all been stated, but the important thing to say, is, another one bites the dust.
Along with [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, mmos
By Frank on November 24, 2008
So it looks like the new fangled thing around town is Rogue. No, not the guys and gals who like it from behind (or so the shirts say) but the new in-game web browser, which allows you to browse that adult website of yours while you’re fighting off your enemy of choice in your favorite [...]
Posted in Gaming, Internet | Tagged Gaming, web browser
By Frank on November 22, 2008
So in yet another shift on the forums for WAR for which I am a moderator, I came upon, among all the wonderfully positive threads declaring the death of the game, a thread regarding the mass exodus (“mass” being, certainly, the always reliable statistic of mass of forum posters”) of the game. In it was [...]
Posted in Gaming, Serious Business, Warhammer Online | Tagged Gaming, mmos, Warhammer Online
By Frank on November 21, 2008
Sanya Weathers, former community weenie at EA Mythic and currently writing over at Massive Gamer Magazine, popped up a nice little recent piece about the value of wording responses in a way to subtly elicit the response you want. Basically, the crux is that the word “but” is a negation of whatever is before the [...]
Posted in Internet, Philosophy, Social Geekery | Tagged game PR, Philosophy, random thoughts
By Frank on November 21, 2008
So are you a basement dweller with aspirations to make some really great games, and of course, to make boatloads of money? Are you somehow cowed or otherwise intimidated by the fact that teams of developers make iconic titles like Halo 3, Half-Life, Final Fantasy, and other juggernauts? Concerned that your titles are just going [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on November 20, 2008
No, you can relax – Wiimusic or anything like it isn’t coming to the PS3 anytime soon. Although to be honest, I was, frankly, confused when I saw Eternal Sonata not only pop to the top of my GameQ from spot 3 to spot 1, but that it also had shipped, arrived, and been received [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on November 20, 2008
So marking yet another milestone in the war of PC gaming, it seems that Blizzard’s hugely successful World of Warcraft franchise has hit a new note, logging 2.8 million units sold in the first 24 hours, according to Gamespot.
Let me tell you that once, a while ago, this needle was firmly in my arm. Not [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, mmo, world of warcraft
By Frank on November 20, 2008
Looks like Kotaku has a brief article about the new Wii Punch-Out game, which will have an interesting new peripheral – boxing gloves.
There’s nothing like actually feeling like you’re a little scrawny geek taking on huge, overmuscled guys than getting winded trying to punch with these babies. Hey, I’m optimistic as always. You never know [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, wii
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