Monthly Archive: August 2010

Adult Themes in MMOs – Selling Point or Limiting Factor?

Psychochild has an interesting article up this morning dealing with the problems of sex in MMOs. Essentially, it boils down to America not being ready to accept sex out in the open; we’re too prudish to accept and express our sexuality, so any game emphasizing it is destined to fail. I wouldn’t argue with this, …

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Catching Up On Summer Reading

Ah, summer. The sun is out, the grass is green, flowers are blooming. Students everywhere are loving life right now. Two months off from school to do with whatever they’d like. It’s a little different for me as a first year substitute. I’m so used to having something going on during the summer (college, work, …

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Rewind: So You’ve Decided to Go Casual

The following post was original published here on September 30th, 2009. When the blog turned a year old, I noticed that it was one of the top posts on the site (along with being one of my personal favorites). Except, when I posted it, a lot of you hadn’t discovered us yet.  So, here’s a …

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I’ve Hit the Sticking Point Again in WoW

Over the last couple of days, and partially due to Syp‘s great Road to Mordor columns, I’ve been playing more LotRO than I have in the last quarter year. As I reloaded the game, I couldn’t but feel a little deja vu. I’d been here before, reloading the game exactly as I had almost a …

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