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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 ]
Roger Dickey from “Money Talks” speaks about monetizing social games. He’s the creator of Mafia Wars and he also headed Fishville and advised the international product team while at Zynga. At 3:00 minutes, he confirms that Zynga isn’t relying on innovation but waits for a competitor to get the right mix for a game and [ READ MORE ]
The discounted offers we got for Thanksgiving are sometimes indicative of where a certain game is headed. I’ve ranted once about how expensive certain Facebook games are and how inexpensive online games have become. I used RIFT as example, because getting a real MMO for $5 was news back then. Well, for Thanksgiving, they brought [ 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 ]
Google+ Board games could be pretty near, according to Bat in the Attic. So what kind of features do we need in order to play a roleplaying game like AD&D online? My list would be: Party Character sheets Dice rolling Battle maps Campaign map NPC interactions (portraits, descriptions) Dungeon Master tools Whiteboard/blackboard for free drawing [ READ MORE ]
Amidst reports that MacOs Lion breaks Adobe products and Flash especially, a few websites sought the sensationalist angle. Is there animosity between Apple and Adobe? Sure. How else can we explain Steve’s open letter. However, I don’t buy the whole “technical and performance” issues argument, despite the fact I’m on a Macbook Pro and my [ 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 ]
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