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Tipa It is the best selling science fiction novel, ever. It has been adapted as a film, a mini-series, a duology of genre-defining video games, a comic, the basis of many songs, paintings, poems and other works. Frank Herbert’s 1965 Dune is as gigantic a presence in the science fiction world as Tolkein’s The Lord of … Read more
Exhausted by centuries of abuse and war, Earth is a dying planet. The best and brightest have fled to neighboring solar systems for a second chance at life. Most of the world’s wildlife is extinct, and people treasure those animals that survive, like an accidental toad, or a sheep placidly grazing on a rooftop garden. … Read more
Massively.com’s Rubi had been hinting all day at something special for the Wednesday DDO meetup (9PM EDT, all are invited)… The big secret? We were going to explore some of the paid content in Dungeons & Dragons Online, courtesy of a double armload of 90-minute guest passes. Nights of Eberron was great tonight. I bought … Read more
Students and faculty alike were shocked this afternoon when Merle Ambrose, Headmaster of Wizard City’s prestigious Ravenwood Academy, left the Spiral and led police on a merry chase through the streets of Austin. He left behind a cryptic recording. Close friends Gamma and Bartleby have refused to comment. Austin commuters report a second person in … Read more
A good intellectual property (IP) can more than provide a setting for a game; it can in a single word tell a player what his or her role is without even knowing one thing about the game itself. The very best IPs are open enough so that the game developers have plenty of room to … Read more