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Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbow’s End” free to read… so go read it

November 29, 2007 by Tipa

Way back in the 70s, Vernor Vinge wrote a short story called “True Names” which is about a bunch of people who hang out in a virtual world, talk, hack, have fun… until some of them start dying, one or more of them may not be human at all, and the only way to find … Read more

EQ2: Okay, a Sarnak, a Goblin and a Burynai walk into a bar…

November 29, 2007 by Tipa

A Sarnak, a Goblin and a Burynai walked into a bar, and seeing all were of an adventuring type, decided to form a guild together. They went on many adventures, and after awhile, realized that though they really liked each other, they had different goals. The Sarnak loved exploring and seeing new places. The Goblin … Read more

Rock Band: Online

November 27, 2007 by Tipa

I checked the Buzzkillaz gamer score last night on Xbox Live and… well, we’re lacking. It showed that we’d unlocked everything up to the tour jet, but all those solo achievements were missing, since we’ve been playing it in band mode since we got it.

Star Trek Online: No more Captain Kirk?

November 27, 2007 by Tipa

Via Tobolds, more news: apparently Perpetual and STO have been on deathwatch for awhile, and last-gasp development is trying to change the direction of the game to more casual. It didn’t sound very hardcore to me anyway… Free to play? Merde… This is definitely not how I saw the game being released.
Reaction on the STO Forums and [ STO Source ] has been muted. Perhaps with months of little attention to the title, it’s slowly lost fans to keep the community alive.
F13.net has some usefully cynical commentary, as usual.

Does the end of Perpetual mean an end to Star Trek Online?

November 26, 2007 by Tipa

According to this article over at Massively, Perpetual Entertainment, who recently closed down their nearly-released Gods & Heroes MMO, is about to shut down altogether. It was clear from all we’ve been hearing over the past year that they were in trouble, but who knew just how bad it was?
The dev blogs they’ve been posting have shown Star Trek Online at a somewhat early phase of development — we’ve mostly seen some level design and know little about the actual gameplay — so I doubt it would be unrealistic to think that Perpetual’s STO game hasn’t much more going for it than a design document, a demoralized development team, and the Star Trek license itself.