Archive for the ‘ Game PR ’ Category
Jon Schindehette has an interesting post over at the WotC site about art style, specifically when it somes to armor. He ends with the following conclusion: Armor should look appropriate to the culture, environment, materials available, and technology, first and foremost. If the armor doesn’t pass that test, then it doesn’t matter whether it is [ READ MORE ]
Everyone’s familiar with the famous last words list – you know, the RPG one. Here’s one: I’ll take off my armor so I’m silent and slip past the dragon. In a recent discussion about whether Warhammer Online is a failure or not, someone brought up a Marc Jacobs interview. One of his quotes has become [ READ MORE ]
As a fan of League of Legends, I feel a bit guilty for not playing for at least a month. I haven’t even read about the last two heroes. However, what’s important is that other people are playing and some of these other people happen to be a Congressman taking a stand against SOPA right [ READ MORE ]
Riftforge is finally open for a limited public playtest. You can start playing immediately by entering this secret passcode – SOFIA. eu.riftforge.com Playtest objectives Riftforge playtest objectives are two and we expect your feedback on both: Collect balancing data on the RPG classes Improve the interface and overall interaction with the game Playtest feature list [ READ MORE ]
With the recent announcement of a new World of Warcraft expansion, Blizzard has confirmed my belief that their transformation from a cult game company to a mainstream one is complete. Blizzard wants to be the Disney of video games now. Also, they also want to move their sinking (subscription numbers wise) flagship to shallow water [ READ MORE ]
Blizzard has caused quite a stir when they announced that players will be able to purchase Diablo 3 items of real money. Admittedly, they won’t be creating these items from thin air but they will take a cut from every transaction that occurs between players. Now Blizzard is testing the water for introducing RMT to [ READ MORE ]
I recently completed two Drizzt trilogies in the span of a week. I started reading chronologically: first, the Dark Elf trilogy; and then, the Icewind Dale trilogy. The books have built quite a fan base, judging by the comments at Amazon. As a big fan of roleplaying games (AD&D in particular), I thought the books [ READ MORE ]
Of course, I meant to use the full title of the 1964 Kubrick movie but I ran out of space. So here it is: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crunch. Yes, crunch, that’s right. So who is Dr. Strangelove in this case? According to some game blogs I [ READ MORE ]
Marketing a game is mostly PR, and by that I really mean reviews by different gaming websites. Yet, I continue to try new advertising media usually with a test budget of few hundred bucks. SponsoredTweets is a service that acts as an intermediary between tweeter users who would like to monetize their fan base and [ READ MORE ]
You have probably heard that Minecraft is a runaway indie sensation. So of course, I went ahead and generated a map with seed “Riftforge“. OMG! This has to be one of most beautiful minecraft maps I’ve seen. There are huge hills with enormous caverns, some floating islands, and other goodies. My castle is on top [ READ MORE ]
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