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	<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com</link>
	<description>Blargging on the future of Online Communities, Game Development, Technology, and the Internet</description>
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		<title>CCP Reaches New Heights. By Climbing a Mountain. For Real.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how I said that I didn&#8217;t want to report gaming news on this blog, despite the fact that it is what I mostly want to write about? Yeah. Screw that. Why keep a blog (blarg)  if I&#8217;m not writing about what I enjoy?
CCP developers Solomon, Diagoras, and Punkturis were also not willing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/04/ccp-reaches-new-heights-by-climbing-a-mountain-for-real/</link>
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		<title>What is it with Game Journalism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, no, this isn&#8217;t a rant about journalists, I&#8217;m sorry to disappoint. Really, it shouldn&#8217;t be considering it is where I &#8220;got my start&#8221; so to speak. In fact, the very first thing I ever did related to the game industry was to work as a site manager for the WarCry Network when they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/03/what-is-it-with-game-journalism/</link>
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		<title>GDC 2010: Coming Full Circle, but With a New View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before midnight yesterday I stumbled back into my apartment after taking a flight from San Fransisco back to Austin. I was in California, of course, for the Game Developers Conference, one of the largest events in the world for the game industry. It wasn&#8217;t my first time at GDC since I had attended it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/03/gdc-2010-coming-full-circle-but-with-a-new-view/</link>
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		<title>I Really Have No Idea What I Want in an MMO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I really do wonder if I could ever find an MMO that would truly please me, that would really capture my ideal, and would engross me for years on end. I&#8217;ve played an awful lot of MMOs out there, partly because none of them have ever really captured me like that, even though I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/03/i-really-have-no-idea-what-i-want-in-an-mmo/</link>
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		<title>How to Develop a Free-to-Play MMO Model that isn&#8217;t Irritating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007, there was an awful lot of talk about how Free-to-Play games with microtransactions were not just interesting, but also a very viable direction to take. At the time, I did not disagree with this, and I haven&#8217;t been surprised to see more and more games coming out using this model. However, while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/03/how-to-develop-a-free-to-play-mmo-model-that-isnt-irritating/</link>
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		<title>Rise From Your Grave! Heatwave Revives Gods and Heroes</title>
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You may recognize the name Gods and Heroes from a few years back. It was a game being developed by Perpetual Entertainment, the studio that was also developing Star Trek Online before they closed their doors. Whenever a studio closes, it is always a sad. Developers find themselves out of work, and the games that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/02/rise-from-your-grave-heatwave-revives-gods-and-heroes/</link>
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		<title>Cheyenne Mountain Files for Bankruptcy</title>
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As much as I&#8217;d hate for it to seem like I&#8217;m coming out of blargging-retirement just to talk about how Stargate: Resistance and Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is filing for Chapter 11, and it really is more of a coincidence than anything, I practically feel required to talk about this one.
I&#8217;ve been skeptical about Stargate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/02/cheyenne-mountain-files-for-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<title>Bigfoot Networks&#039; Guild Partners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
While I normally don&#8217;t make a point of posting up actual work-related stuff &#8211; then again, I&#8217;ve not made much of a point to post up anything lately, sorry! &#8211; I am definitely making an exception for this one. I&#8217;m pretty happy to say that our new Guild Partners program, my little pet project, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2010/01/bigfoot-networks-guild-partners/</link>
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		<title>Added an Image Gallery for My Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the title says, I added an image gallery page for the photographs I have taken &#8211; and those I have yet to take! You should go take a look at them. I&#8217;m not a professional by any means though, so be forewarned.
Granted, none of my pictures really have anything to do with the main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2009/12/added-an-image-gallery-for-my-photography/</link>
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		<title>On Cloud 9: Why Meebo Sucks &#8211; A Problem With Some Cloud Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of last month I started a little experiment to use web-based applications for most all of my computer-needs. Some of my experiences doing this were positive, but some of them were also rather negative. As a result, I believe I have a better idea of what I&#8217;d look for in web-based applications, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emergentfuture.com/2009/12/on-cloud-9-why-meebo-sucks-a-problem-with-some-cloud-applications/</link>
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