It has been one month since Aion Online has hit the shelves and about the same for Champions Online. This is right about the time where a gamers mind turns to “virtual tourism” – the end of the first free month. The following was in the recent release of the “October Community Address” from…
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Because I said so . . .
Because I said so… There is no more presumptuous a pundit than a blogger who perceives themselves to be profound. That’s my story and I ‘m sticking to it… Why? After a brief trek around the “blogosphere” lately I have been left feeling as if I had a rubdown with coarse grade sandpaper – in…
The Easy Road or the Hard Road
The Easy Road or the Hard Road There is a moment, at the end of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the version with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka) where Willy Wonka turns to Charlie and says, “Do you know what happened to the little boy who suddenly got everything he ever wanted?” In…
Kiss Me First
With a “Salute” to Tipa at West Karana from whom I borrowed the idea (and I am proud to announce she has agreed to be a guest on an upcoming show) call this the “Kiss me first” edition… Usually I get kissed before I get…. As we must all know by now, the Activision/Blizzard gorilla…
Bring out your dead
What do Medieval Europe and Aion Online have in common? They are both beset by a plague spread by rats – only in the case of Aion Online the rats are called Gold Sellers. As we discussed earlier in our virtual pub (“Methinks thou dost protest too much”) gaming forums are full to the…
Stepping out of the MUD
Not long ago I listened to an interview with Dr. Richard Bartle as the guest. He spoke of when he and Roy Trubshaw created MUD, the multiuser text based game that was to serve as one of the bases of all that would come later in the world of MMOs. Dr. Bartle spoke of how…