Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa When I created my alt EVE character, Etha Preve, as part of CCP’s “Power of 2” promotion (have a second account for cheap for six months), I didn’t have any specific plans for her. But I’d always wanted a good hauler to help with the mining and just moving stuff around. Last week, she finally … Read more
The mega-EVE alliance Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA), one of the alliances that keep the nullsec Providence region mostly safe and pirate free, was dissolved today. CVA leaders are calling it an account hacking and have vowed to either get CCP to roll the hack back or to form a new alliance from the ashes of … Read more
Oh, let’s call a spade a bloody shovel, shall we? Attack from a safe distance with a rifle? CHECK. Kitty pet that does all the hard work (including running to town to sell loot!!??) CHECK. Yeah. My Torchlight character is a hunter, no two ways about it. But in old Mythos fashion, she could have … Read more
Tactical, party-based RPGs in a browser? For free? Yeah, it exists. For all that it is a tie-in to Bioware’s forthcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins, EA 2D’s Dragon Age Journeys is not only an introduction to the lore and characters of that game, but an excellent RPG in its own right. In first chapter of … Read more
I loved the IDEA of a modern, casual update to the classic Infocom adventure game, Zork. The devious puzzles, the humor, the sense that something wondrous (or at least hilarious) was right around the corner, but mostly the puzzles. We’d get together in UNH’s McConnell computer cluster and try to figure them out — for … Read more