Amidst the uproar and ridicule over the wacky new controller design for the Nintendo Revolution, it’s great to see some more level-headed commentary on what Nintendo might be trying to accomplish. Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution’s new controller is an insightful article about how Nintendo has positioned itself as an innovation leader [...]
Stealing in online games is becoming high tech. Now clever criminals are using bots to kill player characters and rob them in Lineage II. And I thought PvP was hard against other humans.
The Escapist is an attractive magazine that covers gaming, both the digital sort that’s so popular with the kids today and the more analog variety that keeps older gamers like me playing tabletop and roleplaying games. It’s beautifully rendered, and the articles are, for the most part, thoughtfully written and thought-provoking.
It’s unusual to see the [...]
I used something similar to Gatherer a few versions of WoW ago, but I lost all its data when I failed to back up the data files before installing a WoW patch. I’m now armed with better knowledge and better tools, including a Lua script called gatherMerge for exporting gathering data and merging it with [...]
I just recently started playing Second Life, a massive online world in which the players themselves create most of the content. It’s amazingly addictive, and brings to mind happy memories of playing a character in the text-based online world, LambdaMOO.
One of the issues that often comes up in online worlds is that of gender. An [...]
Like much of the PC-gaming public, I’ve been playing Doom 3. And like most of the PC-gaming public, I’m enjoying the hell out of the game (pun fully intended). The overall experience is exactly like being one of the Marines from the movie Aliens, only without the nasty little face-huggers.
id‘s latest game shows that John [...]
Bowman is a clever Flash game that features one-on-one combat using bow and arrow. The physics and gratuitous violence to stick figures make the game well worth the (free) price of admission.
It also gives me SCA flashbacks. I used to engage in one-on-one bow combat, albeit with blunted arrows instead of the deadly little barbs [...]
After more than a year and a half away, I’ve returned to Anarchy Online, largely due to the positive review X-Play gave the Shadowlands expansion (4 out of 5). Many of my old favorite Web sites for AO information are sadly out of service, but they’ve been replaced by some newer and better sites.
Case in [...]
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