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Category Archives: gaming

Expounding on a Topic

So over on Corp I wrote a little bit about my current gaming interests. I figured I’d expound a bit more here, since it’s more of a personal nature. I’m sick of fantasy games. Completely, totally and actually sick of them. I’ve played them to death. I’m a late bloomer, because I didn’t start on […]

Gaming Rig, Ho!

What-ho, ho-down? Been doing a lot of work lately. It doesn’t stop me from dreaming up gaming rigs for people that ask “What the heck should I buy if I don’t want to spend too much?” It boils down to a list like this, and about $900. The video card is bang-for-the-buck, RAM and hard […]

When Response Time Fails

So Lummo the Magnificent linked up this article that my old cohort Joe Blancato wrote for The Escapist. It’s all about how CCP, magnificent overlords of Excel Online, not only had their own little GM Darwin problem, though to a slightly lesser degree. Only slightly, because it can’t be proved that there was anything more […]

I’ve Been Called Out

That figures. I come back from my honeymoon and I find that I’ve been meme-tagged. Something about “he needs to update this thing more.” Funny how it works. So…five things that most people don’t know about me:

Liquid > Bar, We All Know That

My older, slightly hairier clone Raph Koster put up his 10 Commandments of Online Worlds. Number 6 gets me, because he doesn’t want PvP in his game worlds. World games. Whatnot. But even funnier is the exchange over on Broken Toys wherein he and I debate cleaning and haircare and he admits that he is […]

Nothing New Under the Sun

There’s this piece over on Gamasutra, a good one. It’s an interview with Chris Crawford where the first thing he really says is: Well basically, new ideas don’t go anywhere. So the industry is just rehashing the same stuff over and over. During the 80s there was a lot of experimentation, a lot of new […]

Console Makers Have Cranio-Rectal Inversion

It’s a red-letter day for consoles. First off we have Phil Harrison spouting off at German mag Der Spiegel with the following statements: We believe that the PS3 will be the place where our users play games, watch films, browse the Web, and use other computer functions. The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do […]

It’s Either Ego or Unceasing Optimism

Vaporware darlings Infinium Labs, progenitors of the Phantom, have an announcement to make. Instead of closing up shop and admitting their box is truly vapor, they’re changing their name to the Phantom Gaming Service and to…heh. Hahheehoohohoholollerskates++! To double the amount of stock currently available to the public from 600 million shares to 1.2 billion. […]

The Hits, They Keep On Coming

Bruce is still at it over on the Vanguard forums. He’s trumpeting his usual battlecry of “I’m important, I’m important” and as per usual, he’s getting all sorts of backlash. Popcorn, anyone?

When Worlds Collide

When a pompous blowhard meets a down-on-his luck developer, you know wacky sparks are going to fly!! The new reality sitcom, “Bruce n’ Brad” coming to you this summer season, from CBS! CATCH THE FEVER!! There’s always something about Bruce talking in the third person that makes me laugh.