Come for the games, stay for the drama.
A throwaway comment in a Wired.com article led me to Giant Bomb, a new game review blog started by Jeff Gerstmann, the Gamespot editor who was rumored to have been canned when he gave a poor review to a game that advertised heavily on Gamespot. They don’t cover MMOs, but I think those of us … Read more
Tobold posted today about a site hoping to be for MMO gaming what Wikileaks is for the real world — a way for players in the betas for upcoming games to alert people to potential problems in the game. These sorts of leaks can be useful — news that a game is a horribly buggy … Read more
Arthur C. Clarke, grandmaster author of some of the greatest science fiction ever written and inventor of the geosynchronous communication satellite, is dead today. He’s one of the last from SF’s Golden Age. He worked with Stanley Kubrick, to turn his short story, Sentinel, into the movie (and accompanying book), 2001: A Space Odyssey. Without … Read more
I had the pleasure of being on SUWT #22 this weekend. I was first on SUWT #12, so I guess I’ll get another chance to mix it up with the crew on SUWT #32! The fights, the yelling, the smashed windows, the death threats and broken relationships that make podcasts fun, are all here. Our … Read more
One of the dubious advantages of moving from one guild to another is learning new ways of defeating old encounters. Delusions of Grandeur kills Venril Sathir and the Overking in entirely different ways than did Clan of Shadows, and I had to suppress my urge to shout “you’re DOING it wrong!” because, hey, DoG gets … Read more