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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
This weekend was filled with “real life” stuff, leaving little time for gaming… but I did get some time in now and then. I went ahead and made a kinship (called, unsurprisingly, Nostalgia) on the Windfola server in Lord of the Rings Online — just to make it easier to talk with everyone. I’d prefer … Read more
Thomas Lionblood has been having a bunch of fun, bringing magical artifacts infused with Death power to the verdant green of the Life school. We Life wizards will no longer put up with this blatant disregard for the power of Life. So here I am with my new Life staff standing in front of, oh … Read more
This isn’t Veeshan’s Peak. That’s Thomas Lionblood, the Friendly Necromancer, on the left, though. If your MMO doesn’t have dragons in it, it’s just not a fantasy MMO, is it? You can take out wizards and plucky farm boys and enchanted princesses and evil kings and all that, but if you lose the dragons, well, … Read more
This is my week to be the “on call” developer at work, which means I carry the Pager of Doom and also have to go to bed early and get up early. PLUS, yesterday I had more dental work done and was in so much pain I drugged myself senseless and slept from the time … Read more
KingsIsle brought the servers down. When they came back up again, Bartleby had discovered he now knew the way to the world of Dragonspyre, the evil Malistaire’s last refuge. He doesn’t call himself Malistaire, though. He is now the Necromaster, and Dragonspyre is the plaything he rules from deep within the Necropolis. Or so I … Read more