My MMORPG Attention Stages

I’m still on MMO break, playing a lot of Team Fortress 2 and other single-player games, but I almost got caught by LoTRO this week. In years past, I think I would have succumbed to the lure of Middle Earth and re-subscribed to scratch my MMO itch, but I moved through my usual MMO attention [...]

Two weeks to Valentine’s Day

I’m one hundred percent sure my wife wouldn’t know what the hell to make of these gamer Valentine’s Day cards, but I think they’re awesome. Link goes to Geekadelphia, who’s linking out to Hawty McBlogger’s site.

My Mythic Valentine

Clue number 3/13 arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
I used to have a girlfriend who talked about hunting me down. She made it sound like a good thing, but, really, it wasn’t a good thing.
You know, when someone first jokes about stalking you (at least, you want to believe it’s a joke), you’re flattered, kinda. It’s [...]

Sony MMO’s on Steam, and gaming behind the curve

It’s been about two months since I’ve played any MMO, which is probably my longest MMO-free stretch since Everquest released almost ten years ago. I’m really enjoy a bunch of different single-player games that I missed while I was obsessing over one MMO or another, but I still feel the occasional pull to log into [...]

Out of the crash comes innovation

I lost my earphones for my smartphone just before Christmas, and with all the busy-ness of the holidays, I never managed to buy a new pair. I do all my podcast listening from my phone on my daily train commute, or while I’m running errands on the weekends, and I didn’t listen to anything from [...]

Quake Live and gaming nostalgia

I’ll try to avoid “uphill, both ways, barefoot, over a 14.4 modem” reminiscing.
My earliest 3D online gaming experiences were playing Quake and its variants. I started working for a dot com startup company in 1996, making hardware and software that connected your guitar to your computer. I was the tech support guy, and it was [...]

Quake Live beta

Quake 3 in a browser? Yes please!
I just got my beta invite today, and I played the first “training” match. It’s pretty sweet! I’m sure I can’t talk about anything more than “There is a beta, I’m in the beta”, so I’ll hold off on impressions until beta testers are released from NDA’s, but I’m [...]

Where do videogames go when they die?

If you’ve been involved with technology in some way over the past 20 years, you’ve probably saved files on now-extinct or endangered storage media. A Google search for dead media will find plenty of thoughtful speculation about the future of storage information. Prompted by Muckbeast’s pointer to the removal of the Threshold MUD entry on [...]

Shifting sands: EGM and Threshold MUD

By now, you’ve all probably heard that EGM will no longer publish magazines, and the 1UP network has been sold to UGO.
You also may be aware of the Threshold MUD entry being removed from Wikipedia (thanks for the pointer, Muckbeast!).
Both events remind me that we’re still living in the dawn of the digital era, and [...]

Feeling guilty

I haven’t blogged in a couple weeks, and it’s because I’m avoiding something…avoiding doing something, and avoiding saying something.
I think I’m done playing Warhammer Online.
My place of employment closes up between Christmas and New Year’s, so I’ve had almost two weeks off. I was planning to use that time to level my archmage from 33 [...]