Whatcha reading? The Fellowship of the Ring? Dude, Gandalf isn’t really dead. Oh yeah, and Frodo like totally wants to keep the ring at the end but Gollum grabs it and falls into Mount Doom.
Busy busy weekend but I found a little time to play in the Lord of the Rings Online Open Beta. I played a Hobbit minstrel in the stress test; time to check out the other classes to see what they were like.
MMOs
Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
38 Studios better watch itself
Kendricke at Warcry reports that Jason “Dymus” Roberts has left his position at SOE of EQ2 Lead Designer. It’s rumored that he may join the crowd at 38 Studios in their unannounced MMO. 38 Studios has some great talent. But if they come out with another generic fantasy MMO that tries to be everything for … Read more
An MMO Brokerage?
Brenlo has said that your Station Pass money is distributed proportionally among the games you play based on the time you play them. Well, if SOE can do that with their games, why can’t they do that with other people’s games? I’d pay $29.99 a month if my “Station Pass” could buy me access to … Read more
Project Darkstar
Could this be the first seed of the Metaverse? Sun has given their Project Darkstar to the open source community. Project Darkstar is a generic backend that can support any sort of game or other collaborative activity transparently allocating servers and managing data so that if your game is meant for 5 players or 5,000, … Read more