“Fallout’s glitchy debut hasn’t occasioned many debates about the level of polish expected in a game at release, and Amazon has yet to be carpet bombed with one-star reviews. People seemed to be annoyed at the news of the game’s flaws, but they were annoyed while on their way to the store to buy it. It…
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The Bright Center of MMOs
“If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” – Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker talking about the desert planet of Tatooine “For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and…
The Back Page – Friday, August 14
Welcome to the back page for Friday, August 14, 2010 Yes, I said August 14th … Yes, I do know what the date really is, and it’s not that I’m superstitious or anything (knock wood). Still, you can never be careful. O.K. so its Friday (fill in the date) during the month of August…
Pucker Up Butter Cup
Riddle me this… Quick what do Donkeys, people and multiplayer games all have in common? Give up? They all have a**holes Next one – this one’s easier. What do Tabula Rasa, The Matrix Online, Auto Assault, Asheron’s Call 2, Earth and Beyond, Motor City Online (let’s hope Need for Speed by the same publisher…
We’ll always have Dalaran
For those of you who may not have noticed yet, one of our favorite websites, Lorewriter.com, has gone permanently dark – the owner of the site having gone on to bigger and better things. Even though I appreciated it while it was there, too often we don’t appreciate something until it’s gone. There are those in…
I don’t get no respec
“I don’t get no respec”… well at least not yet anyway. It is a subject recently heard in many a barb in Star Trek Online (STO) fleet chat these days. Of course those of you who have been following the news out of Cryptic lately know that the patch with a respec, federation versus federation…