Other Games

Non-MMO games.

Death 2 U vs the Queens of the Stone Age

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I took my fictional metal band, Death 2 U, on stage last night. Packed stadium. Roaring crowd. Wetting-their-pants crazy to see us, just last week an unknown band playing in someone’s basement, cover Queens of the Stone Age’s “No One Knows”. No one knew how nervous we were. This song is HARD. Even on “Medium”. … Read more

Dice

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I refuse to believe that any day that begins with finding your dice, can be a bad day. Those blurry bits of plastic saw me through a lot of hard times. Not long ago, I’d have sat right down, pulled out a clean character sheet and rolled up an adventurer. When I found these while … Read more

Babylon 5 – I've Found Her

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Busy day in the blog… Years ago, Sierra was making a Babylon 5 game. It looked slick. I upgraded my computer so I would be able to play it. I loved Wing Commander, and I loved B5, so this game looked perfect… and then it was canceled. Fans decided not to let it go that … Read more

Wasn't "Gil" Their First?

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FF12’s First Tie-In Product Restores real-life hit points! Now I won’t have to go into stranger’s homes and open up all their chests for Potion.

Text Adventures

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I saw this Wall Street Journal on Modern-day Text Adventures on Slashdot. That brings me back – way back – to 1979 and the computer clusters at the University of New Hampshire. Someone had installed ADVENT on the DEC-10s – that’s what we called Crowthers’ “Collosal Cave” adventure. To say that changed my life would … Read more