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Tipa Kyle over at Massively reports that Jumpgate: Evolution has passed 150,000 beta signups. Wow. That’s impressive. With 150,000 testers going through every inch of the game, looking for bugs and reporting them, stress testing everything, seeing that the economy is functional, that all the art assets are working correctly, this game is guaranteed to rock. … Read more
If eBay closed tomorrow, thousands of small businesses that use the auction site for their virtual storefronts would be devastated. eBay has long since stopped being primarily the world’s biggest yard sale, and now funnels an amazing number of gray market and handmade goods all over the world. Similarly, as the nation’s game of record, … Read more
I was going to title this, “Friends don’t let friends play Wizard 101” because it’s so addictive, but I couldn’t. I really, really enjoyed playing my current crush with friends this weekend. I have this dream… that someday, I will fight through the Master’s Tower in Ravenwood and at the end of the battles, when … Read more
The plan was to go to some experience hot zone last night for Nostalgia’s weekly meet-up. But Mantis decided to just farm some of the giants in the Bastion of Thunder while waiting, and then I drifted over there — again, just while waiting for everyone else to log in. Coldheat came over after a … Read more
Wizard 101, why can’t I quit you? I spent most of the night last night working on my LittleBigPlanet level. Well, almost. I spent most of last night feeling like an idiot. A frustrated idiot. Since LittleBigPlanet is based around a physics engine, everything you make there has to actually work to some degree. I … Read more