game design

Ideas, mechanics and pointless quibbling. In a perfect world, we’d all be game designers.

interviews

Actually, that’s interview. Singular. Not plural. Now go to the corner.

MMO

Glorified chat rooms with elaborate hamster wheel mechanics. No wonder we’re hooked.

Rants

Highly opinionated, disturbingly forward. Bonafide proof that we’re not on anyones payroll.

Reviews

Attempting objective and quasi-coherent reviews of things that need to be reviewed. Or not.

A Letter to Curt Schilling and 38 Studios
Thursday, 24 Apr, 2008 – 8:43 | 26 Comments
A Letter to Curt Schilling and 38 Studios

A faint ray of hope in an otherwise darkening genre of gaming.

Conan and Forceful PVE Content
Monday, 21 Apr, 2008 – 16:52 | 23 Comments
Conan and Forceful PVE Content

It’s hard to get motivated to play yet another MMO sometimes. While some of the industry’s most prolific bloggers are comfortable playing the role of their life not being complete until they play upcoming …

My Kingdom for Different Archetypes
Thursday, 17 Apr, 2008 – 15:04 | 15 Comments
My Kingdom for Different Archetypes

Archetypes. For gaming purposes, and we’re mainly talking about Fantasy based games here, we’ve somehow been thrown into a specific template of unoriginality for the last 20 or 30 years.
Waxing intellectual on the subject, Archetypes …

Site Redesign and Douchebag Websites
Thursday, 17 Apr, 2008 – 9:30 | No Comment
Site Redesign and Douchebag Websites

Well, I’m about finished with the site redesign. The former design was pretty to the eye, but the white-on-black was a bit unfriendly to articles.
So, I’ve scoured around and came up with this. I’ve received …

Age of Conan: Twelve Trails of Blood
Tuesday, 8 Apr, 2008 – 9:44 | 6 Comments
Age of Conan: Twelve Trails of Blood

With the recent blessing of a Warhammer fall launch, we turn our short-term attention span on the Govenator’s upcoming game Age of Conan.
Class choice is ultimately important in a class/level based game, especially one based …

One YAY for Warhammer Delay
Thursday, 3 Apr, 2008 – 14:48 | One Comment
One YAY for Warhammer Delay

The recent announcement of the Warhammer Online delay until fall might be sad news for my buddy over at Keen and Graev (and his expected disappointment in this post) – but the delay is welcome …