Monthly Archives: March, 2010
I Love These Guys So Much It Hurts
Seriously, I know I gush about Fallen Earth and their dev team a lot, but how can you not develop a crush on them when they’re constantly pumping out stuff like this?
Galactic Keep Teaser Trailer Released
Touch Arcade went to PAX and brought back a bit of new info in the form of a teaser trailer for Galactic Keep: Space Battles. Oddly enough, this is my #1 most anticipated iPhone game, and it looks like it’s shaping up to be terrific. It’s meant to mimic a solo tabletop RPG session, with …
Escapism Is A Good Thing
On the recommendation of The Casual Stroll to Mordor folks, I’ve begun to listen through the backlog of The Tolkien Professor, a college professor named Dr. Corey Olson who recorded several lectures from his course on Tolkien and his works. (As a side note, I really appreciate that the professor doesn’t ignore or gloss over …
The Grass Is Greener In My Mind
I have some sort of debilitating sickness in my head that always works against me when I’m deep into a MMO. It’s one of the things that causes me to stutter out in the mid-levels of a game and reroll an alt or jump to another title. I think of it as “the grass is …
LOTRO: Burglar Life
One of the best things about LOTRO, in my opinion, is just how different the classes feel from each other — and, in many cases, how different they feel from contemporary classes in other titles. I’ve spent a good deal of time with four of the nine classes, and while some of them shared types …
Nostalgia Lane: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
When I started doing the Nostalgia Lane series, I quickly realized that I could spend the first ten articles in it discussing nothing other than adventure games. MAN, I loved me some adventure games back in the day — King’s Quest, Space Quest, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, The Longest Journey, etc. People were quick to …
/AFK – Njub Edition
As everyone is drinking in the goodness of PAX East, we at the Syp residence are hunkering down into T-Minus Baby mode, where a little bundle of pink squirminess is due just about any day. But what day? Today? 3am? Right in the middle of Easter Sunday service CLEAR A PATH SHE’S HAVING A BABY …
Syp Bueller’s Day Off
I promised my wife that after this busy week, I’d give her my full attention today. So no posts for me! However, if you haven’t already, head on over to Massively to read my latest LOTRO column, A Day At The Festival.
