Monthly Archives: February, 2011
Tolkien Prof makes the Washington Post
While it mentions LOTRO once, this piece in the Washington Post isn’t MMO-centric, but rather honors an internet celebrity who’s doing a lot of good for the works of Tolkien these days. Many LOTRO players are fans of the so-called Tolkien Professor, a teacher and podcaster named Corey Olsen. I’m a fan myself, and have …
The RIFT Advent Calendar
Counting down until RIFT’s head start on the 24th! Me too! It helps not to think about it — I really hate the month before MMO launches, because I go crazy and everyone else goes crazy. It’s like a teenage hormone overload (“I HATE YOU! Oh wait, I totally love you!”) that I’d rather just …
Respond to Mary Worth in the comments section!
I’ll get the ball rolling: “It’s illegal except in Singapore!”
iPhone: Battleheart stole my soul
There was a Penny Arcade strip about Minecraft in which Gabe kind of meanders through the world trying to figure out what to do when he finally “gets” it — and then says, “Oh no. Oh no. I’m in some real [bad word] trouble here.” He knows the game’s about to steal his soul by …
Quote of the Day
“You can now buy a $5 pregnancy test that casually wields far more CPU power than an Apple II. The Xbox S controller — by itself — packs more raw processing muscle than a SNES.” ~ Vintage Computing and Gaming
Should RIFT go dark?
The frequency and duration of RIFT’s beta events (six so far and counting) have a few bloggers wondering about their purpose, not to mention the absolutely massive list of patch notes that seem to accompany each of them. As we head through the last few weeks before the head start/launch, the questions of how Trion …
/AFK: The Final Countdown Edition
Two and a half weeks left, and RIFT players will finally be able to colonize Telara for good. This isn’t a lot of time to get one’s affairs in order — families need to be abandoned, jobs quit, pets sold the circus, catheters set up, etc. Hopefully, we’ll get it all done. Or, y’know, we’ll …
Fellowship of the Flux Capacitor
[I'm playing LOTRO with the Back to the Future soundtrack blasting] Wife: What are you playing? Me: Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future-style. If I can get my horse up to 88 mph, I travel back in time to The Hobbit.
The Average Age of Gamers
2004: 29 years old 2005: 30 years old 2006: 33 years old 2008: 35 years old 2009: 35 years old 2010: 35-37 years old (also, for some reason, 32 years old) Average age of a PC gamer in 2010? 42 years old. Does this make you feel old, young or indifferent?
