Monthly Archives: February, 2009
Tabula Rasa RIP
Well, it looks as though tomorrow will see the end of Tabula Rasa’s one-plus years of active deployment in the MMO battlefields. Other than an extremely short (2 weeks) stint in the game, I have no vested interest in the title, but I always find it incredibly sad when a MMORPG shuts its doors. It’s …
Star Wars Episode XLVIII –
(Great, now I’m afraid to hotlink an image ever again… guess I learned my lesson!) Just a quick note to point out that Star Wars: The Old Republic has launched a new webcomic devoted to bringing a colorful backstory to the events surrounding the upcoming game. Jedis going “blah blah meditate blah”? Yup, it’s there. …
Apologies!
Hey guys, I’m terribly sorry for the picture that appeared in the previous post. I found a cover image of the Dreamfall game, and it looked normal when I posted it, but apparently it got changed after the fact to something less than savory. I changed it, and apologize — that’s obviously not the sort …
Friday Quickies
Hm, Darkfall’s launched in perhaps one of the most stilted, weird launches in MMO history to many mixed reviews. Will anyone be surprised/disappointed when this settles down to a very niche space in the MMOsphere and ceases to be news in, oh, a month or so? Speaking of that “niche” word… with the possible exception …
Making The Mish
One of the aspects of my life that I won’t bore you with (at least, not at length) is that I usually drift off to sleep at night designing games — and MMOs, mostly — as a way to disconnect my mind from the day. A year or so ago I got fixated on the …
DDO Rolls 1d3
Wow… Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO) just turned 3 — has it really been that long already? When it first came out, I was right on board, first train and pulling that whistle. Choo-choo! DDO seemed like it had a great chance to forge a new path in MMOspace — a solid IP that was …
Steal These MMO Features — Please!
Feature theft — or “borrowing”, for the conscience-addled developer — is a common enough way of life in the MMORPG world. WoW starts putting exclamation points above people’s heads as some sort of text-less “click here dummy!” icon system, and then suddenly everyone else is doing it, just with a fresh coat of paint to …
Tuesday’s Tiny Adventures
I’m still digging myself out of a really long, busy weekend of work and school, so instead of any one topic today… many mini-topics! D&D Tiny Adventures I’m not a total Facebook freak, but I do enjoy staying in touch with friends and family through it. Lately I’ve been hearing buzz about a fun little …
Bill Roper For The Defense
It’s always cool to see MMORPG devs support each other instead of getting into snarky hissy fits (although those are entertaining in their own right), and recently Champion Online’s Bill Roper came to the defense of WAR, especially in light of the recent sub numbers and layoffs. As for Cryptic’s own titles, he gives this …
Conan the Retiree
There was only the briefest of times when I was intensely interested in Age of Conan, possibly brought on for my past love of FunCom (The Longest Journey rules!) and the idea of a savage, brutal fantasy world with an edgey, non-PC nature to it. Then that quickly evaporated as reports of the game started …
