Web Log 4/24 — Friday is Free Day edition

Penny Arcade starts off Freeday Friday with a little bit of snark about the Chronicles of Spellborn payment plan. While it’s true that you can now use a credit card like for every other game… I think trying to figure out their Coins-based plan is a fun game all on its own, don’t you? Reported … Read more

The end of the age of the auteur game designer?

NCSoft’s first quarter report came out, and they don’t want to talk about their space marine-fps-mmo, Tabula Rasa, except to say they are fairly disappointed bu its performance. I should refer to it by its full name, Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa. Richard Garriott, if you don’t know of him, is “the legendary video game programmer … Read more