Will 2009 be the best year ever for MMOs?

In 2007, you could have surprised absolutely nobody by predicting that 2008, last year, would be the biggest, best year ever for MMOs. Triple A titles abounded — Age of Conan and Warhammer Online were both just going to tear WoW a new one, but heck, even WoW was coming out with its second expansion. … Read more

Spinal Tap “Unwigged and Unplugged” coming to town!

May 22, 2009, Spinal Tap “Unwigged” is coming to the Foxwoods Casino, one the of the two Indian resort casinos here in Connecticut. This is Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer as … themselves … and they’ll also be playing some of their songs from “A Mighty Wind”. Grrr. Ever since I moved to … Read more

Spellborn dev chat, part II

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After the fold is the second half of last Friday’s developer chat. Again, any errors in transcribing it are mine, and for the actual chat right from the mouths of the devs, you can find the full MP3 recording over on Historian’s site.
In this half of the transcript, we learn about what’s coming for PvP, solo and group instances, what’s coming for the end game, how solo friendly the game is, and much, much more.

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