Only in Fallen Earth! There are many measures which we apply to games in an effort to determine if we will be a “virtual tourist” or actually take up residence in a given virtual world. In a similar vein, not that long ago, one reviewer for our local paper, upon the presumably embarrassing incident of…
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The Fun Factor
Why do we continue to play video games – sometimes long after we have ceased having fun doing so? That is a subject Julie is exploring a bit for a “piece” she is writing for Virgin Worlds. However it did lead us to ponder over a related area… For those of you who have not…
Mark of Excellence
Welcome to the mark of excellence edition… What, you may ask yourself, do a wheel chair, video games and excellence all have in common? The answer quite simply is when a video game is accessible to everyone and we mean everyone. Two discussions on making games accessible recently drew our attention to the matter. The first is…
Out On A Limb
Ok…let me go out on a limb here. In fact let me go WAY out on a limb here. Fallen Earth by Icarus Studios puts more “Virtual” back in the virtual world than any other mmo on the market today – if you dispute me, argue the point. If you don’t believe me, go out…
The Back Page
So “why The Back Page?” you might ask yourself. Simply put, ever morning our local paper features all its heterogeneous miscellany on its back page. As what we wish to write about today are only loosely related, at least for today, we will have the same bent. First up…Fallen Earth We have noted a few…
When a game isn’t your cup of tea
When a game isn’t your cup of tea A few days ago the subject of a Fallen Earth review came up over “Clan Chat” (In Fallen Earth a clan is the same thing as a guild) about a lack luster review that was plagued by being greatly mundane and perhaps even possessing a degree of…