Come for the games, stay for the drama.
On February 17th, 1980, around 10PM, I was so frustrated with some puzzles in Dungeon (which would later become Infocom’s flagship game, Zork), that I found out where on the University of New Hampshire’s engineering school’s VAX-11/780 the game was installed, and printed out all the text in the game, hoping that would give me … Read more
It’s the wave of the future. No, it’s not the wave of the future. Handing the level making tools to the players is the wave of the past, and it’s made game after game stick around for years past the “sell by” date. Half Life, Warcraft III, Unreal 2… It doesn’t take a genius to … Read more
Given a games company founded by the developers of the PvP-centric MMO Shadowbane, and the fragfest shooters DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D, making a game centered around a bloodless card game where kids could battle monsters with funny monsters of their own must have been a little tough. Stingite over at The Friendly Necromancer says that … Read more
Being a Drogorn civic planner must be the most interesting job in the world. I can just imagine the presentation at the planning meeting: “Well, Jim, what do you have for us today?” “Well, today — something really exciting — here’s the plans for the new Elementary school!” “Oh, very good. Very good. This covered … Read more
Gas Powered Games, creators of Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Siege II, Space Siege, and Supreme Commander, is bringing the Warcraft III “Defense of the Ancients” mod to your computer in an entirely new game. Raise a demigod, crush the enemy, it looks like a cross between DotA and Shadow of the Colossus. If you’re at all … Read more