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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Last night, a “rogue group” of us OtakuDyne types headed to lowsec for some ratting fun, and ended up going to nullsec to rat, and taking on some players we found. We killed our fellow ratters, and then their friends killed us. Was that all there was to it? Nope, we’d kinda opened a playroom … Read more
My luck held out, and I flew the Gun of Happiness, my PvP-fitted cruiser, back home. Everyone else in our null-sec adventure — on our side, anyway — got sent home via express mail. But we hit them first, and we hit them hard, but they soon outnumbered us and that was that. We’d been … Read more
Ya know those Deep Field shots the Hubble took, where they point the telescope at a seemingly empty part of the sky and find tens of thousand of galaxies in every shot? That’s pretty much how I was feeling when I fought my way to the last “room” of an EVE storyline mission and found … Read more
Aion was my entertainment of choice this weekend. I spent the better part of Friday evening and Saturday playing it. I’ve rejoined MMO comrades from the Casualties of War (COW) guild, first formed as a group of bloggers going into Warhammer Online. The guild has since branched out into a number of other MMOs, including … Read more
Sean E asked me why I wasn’t playing Dungeons and Dragons Online. I hear DDO and I think “hey, another fantasy MMO with wizards and stuff”. Why add a twenty-first to the twenty I already play or have played? And who has that kind of time? I guess it depends on who you play with; … Read more