For as much as this blog has seemed MMO exclusive lately, I’ve actually done a fair bit of console gaming as well. The biggest chunk of this has been on my DSi, as I can take it with me on the go, but I’ve spent a little bit of time with my Xbox 360 too. …
Monthly Archive: October 2009
MMO Wanna-Be’s
(The title may not be grammatically appropriate but darned if it didn’t look wrong without that apostraphe!) Lately, it seems like a new MMO is launching just about every month. Games are coming out of the woodwork and pushing the limits of what we expect to see in a new MMO. This is a great …
Community Spotlight: Darren from Common Sense Gamer
I read a lot of blogs. More often than not, I find myself wanting to know about the person behind the website, what they get out of writing, and what keeps them doing it. Then I thought, “Hey, they’re just people, why not ask?” So, today, I’m happy to present the first of what I …
Actually, story does matter.
Sometimes, trolls get the best of you. I mirrored yesterday’s post on WoWRiot and the very first commenter, Pink, threw this out at me: “go rp nerd. no1 cares about what a quest involves, only what the reward is.” The asshat couldn’t have even read the article because what I’m saying is that I stopped …
Did NCSoft fire their writers?
Just a brief quote that made me wonder. This is from Gamasutra’s interview with Brian Knox, lead from the Aion Online team: “We had some really talented writers — still do, actually.” Okie. What I read from that is that some of the more remarkable writers got cut. His little correction (“— still do, actually.”) …
Overthrowing the Black Claw in Aion
Yesterday was a pretty lucrative day for me in Aion. I started the morning right on the edge of 17. I had something like 20k experience left until I leveled up and a quest log full of enough quests to clutter the right side of my screen. I don’t know whether I’m getting a lot …
