Yes, video games can make you cry

It seems like years now that pundits and bloggers have batted around the video-game cocktail party question, “Can video games make you cry?”. Meant as a measure of maturity for the medium, the question considers whether gamers can become as emotionally invested in their characters as other mediums like books and movies.
Tonight, I found out [...]

Best $5 ever

So I’ve been playing Prey all weekend after buying it on Steam for $4.95. If Valve keeps offering deals like this, I’m going to be one seriously happy customer.
I’ve been out of the FPS loop for years now. The only FPS I’ve played, I think, is HL2 and some of the expansions. Prey is no [...]

Prey: $4.95 weekend-only deal on Steam

I rarely talk about FPS games here, but they were a long addiction for me in the mid 90’s; Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life and various mods all got a lot of play time in our offices.
I’ve been meaning to write a post about Steam and how much I love it (after hating it along [...]

Why I don’t think I’ll play Age of Conan

When Everquest was released in March of 1999, I was just 10 months away from the birth of my daughter. She’s grown up with me playing mmorpg’s, and she’s always been involved. Whether it was just sitting on my lap and watching me play DAoC (and maybe hitting the space bar during long horse rides [...]

Still loving LOTRO

A month or so into Lord of the Rings Online, and I’m still enjoying myself, much more than I expected. I have a hobbit minstrel who’s level 23, and a Man captain at level 13. I had to make an alt because I needed bank space and someone to boil my hides for my hobbit [...]

No WAR for you, six months!

Mark Jacobs talks about the Warhammer Online delay until Fall ‘08 over at the Warhammer Alliance message boards (the first post, by mbj, is Mark).
I’m in the WAR beta, and I’m glad they’re holding back. I won’t talk about the details of the beta and why I’m glad, other than to say it didn’t feel [...]

And now for something completely random

During my “I hate mmorpg’s” period of the last few months (I need a “Blue Period” label for it, make it sound disgruntled and artsy or something), I played through Half-Life 2 again, prepping for an Orange Box purchase (which I haven’t done yet, it’s on my list!).
Firing up HL2 necessitated installing Steam again. I [...]

Define “Fickle”

Ok, I’ll save you the search. “Fickle: marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability: given to erratic changeableness”. That could sum up my blog, and my mmorpg habits over the last couple months.
I know when it changed. Sometime around November, I lost the desire to blog or play mmo’s, which resulted in my [...]