An Eve-related video that’s full of win

I was catching up on my blog reading and stumbled across this gem on Ander’s Eve Pirate blog. I’m sure those who still regularly check out Eve blogs have already seen it, but I know there are a few former Eve players reading who might have missed this. And it’s too good to miss.
Short summary: [...]

Still mad about that “Close World of Warcraft” bit?

During an interview last summer, Richard Bartle was asked “If you could take over control of one major MMORPG - which would you choose and what would you do with it?” His answer, ” I’d take over World of Warcraft and I’d close it”, stirred up the blogs and discussion boards. I loved his answer, [...]

Lots of searches for Christians and GTA

Since I posted about the GTA IV banner ad over on Gamepraise, I’ve had a bunch of new search hits.  WordPress lists the top 10 search terms that people used to get to your blog in your blog stats. In the last two days, I’ve had eight different searches land on my page.
- christian gta
- [...]

Keen’s Age of Conan bullet points

Keen has been actively discussing design choices for Age of Conan, and he made a post listing where he stands on various issues. I agree with a lot of what he says, maybe because we played on the same server in Dark Age of Camelot, and we know a) how good PvP can be [...]

But Dad, I’ve seen decapitation before!

I’ve debated playing Age of Conan previously in this blog, citing concerns about violence and nudity, plus the conflict with the Warhammer release date. Since WAR is pushed to fall, I’ve had to confront the issues of violence and nudity and how they relate to the relationship my daughter I have concerning video games.
I started [...]

Your bible and the relationship with Grand Theft Auto IV

I was googling around earlier trying to remember the name of “Left Behind”, the game where people left on Earth following the Rapture have to band together to defeat the anti-Christ. Van Hemlock noted an unusual search string in his blog stats (”huge archway which only let people of good nature, game”), and I was [...]

The best $20 you could ever spend

Steam weekend deal, Civilization IV, $19.95! If you don’t have Civilization IV, or (god forbid) you’ve never played any of the Civilization games, it’s so absolutely worth the money.
Civilization is definitely my desert island game (if I couldn’t play a mmorpg, might be Eve Online if I could). Civ I was the game that convinced [...]

Trackmania Nations Forever: Spam your friends!

I had about 45 minutes to kill while Darkstar One is downloading from Gametap (yay, new content) and I’m waiting for Bill Maher to start on HBO, so I fired up Trackmania again.
It’s totally non-realistic racing on (so far) short crazy tracks. There are about 25 tracks to unlock on the first level, about half [...]

The Guild: Best Youtube Ever

There’s a good chance I’m months behind on noticing The Guild, a series of short videos about 6 seriously dysfunctional guildmates playing an mmorpg. It’s uncomfortably hilarious , like watching Larry David, or Jason Alexander as George Costanza, completely embarassing themselves in a public or semi-public forum.
The stories and the jokes are spot-on, revealing all [...]

Who’s on Gax? Social networking for gamers.

I’ve spent the morning dinking around with my profile at Gax. For those who might not know about Gax, Gary Gannon and Ryan Verniere of Massively Online Gamer created a social network for gamers. As much as I enjoy blogging on Word Press, I was experimenting with Gax to see if I could get a [...]

Age of Conan, or Warhammer?

First of all, I’m still on mmorpg break. This post is purely speculative, and it’s not like I’m going to plunk down $5 to pre-order Age of Conan and get all fired up about something new and shiny, only to realize I’m still burned out.
Ahem. Now that I’ve finished lying to myself, I’ve been debating [...]

If you’re switching WordPress themes…

…don’t waste 45 minutes of your life trying to remember how to mask out 904×160 pixels from a 1280×1024 screenshot in Photoshop for your blog header. WordPress does it for you if you upload an image larger than your default image header size. I kinda forgot that.
Now I know a lot more about Photoshop, which [...]