Come for the games, stay for the drama.
DINA: Oh, it was a busy night. We’re sitting here in Snake-Eye’s camp, and I have old Lizard Breath sitting next to me. DERA: … I don’t think that swim you took in the Venom Flow river left you smelling like sunshine either, Sewer Skin. DINA: Snake Eye is a huge hunter, totally vicious, a … Read more
Via boingboing, I found a great LA Weekly profile of Devo co-founder Mark Motherbaugh’s turn from New Wave post-punk icon to noted, “quirky”, soundtrack and jingle writer for his omni-art creative emporium, ‘Mutato’. That swept me back thirty years to those dusty shelves in the back of the Uxbridge Free Public Library’s fiction stacks, and … Read more
I really really REALLY wanted to level last night, so I made a promise to myself and to anyone in earshot that yes, THIS TIME, I was going to start on those Kunzar Jungle quests, and damned be he that gets in my way. Just for fun I checked on groups in guild — apparently … Read more
This game just turns the cute — I mean, the kawaii — up to 11… So after you choose your life’s destiny, all very solemn, your Mirror King (who’s a girl, but let’s not quibble) sends you off to find a World Mirror that will set you on your path (I chose: monster friend). But … Read more
We know very little about Star Trek Online, but what we do know doesn’t sound much like Star Trek. Very “gamey”, not very “worldy”. You form a group in a city (or starship or starbase), choose a quest (mission) and beam down, run the quest, beam back up. OR, you get in your shuttle, meet … Read more