Games
CCP Reaches New Heights. By Climbing a Mountain. For Real.
You know how I said that I didn’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’m not writing about what I enjoy? CCP developers Solomon, Diagoras, and Punkturis were also not willing [...]
GDC 2010: Coming Full Circle, but With a New View
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’t my first time at GDC since I had attended it [...]
I Really Have No Idea What I Want in an MMO
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’ve played an awful lot of MMOs out there, partly because none of them have ever really captured me like that, even though I [...]
How to Develop a Free-to-Play MMO Model that isn’t Irritating
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’t been surprised to see more and more games coming out using this model. However, while [...]
Rise From Your Grave! Heatwave Revives Gods and Heroes
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 [...]
