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Scott Jennings

We're Losing The Spam War

This may not be the most popular blog on the Interwebs, but it’s one of the oldest. Thanks to that dubious distinction, I seem to be inflicted regularly with the leading edge of spammer technology. It started with comment spam: someone posting links upon links upon links, usually of

The Remains Of The Day

Vanguard team moved to the SOE mothership, thus bringing to a final close the Sigil story. And yes, I’m still alive – work is eating my time lately. Amazingly, given a choice between designing an MMO and writing for my blog, I sometimes choose the former!

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

EA acquires Bioware for more money than you can count. Edit: or, apparently, more money than the media can count, either.

RMT Cyberwar

As always, Korea is somewhere off in the future, being all Blade Runnery. Despite the barrage of inquiries, the troubled sites are keeping mum until then. Only Item Ria, which experienced connection problems, posted a notice on its site explaining the reason behind the shut-down. “We were under pressure from

Three Unconnected Notes On The Situation

Guess SOE isn’t publishing Gods and Heroes after all. EA Mythic tells Warhammer Online beta players “shoo“. Mark Jacobs explains that it’s not a big deal, using lots of words. Scott notes that the letter doesn’t begin with ‘Folks’, thinks the EABorg implants finally kicked in. ‘THEY’

World of Adcraft

Fan-made commercial for a sneaker contest: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PH5LlV6cm0] Actual commercial for, um. Trucks: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_622w_ttiU] Yes, the Apocalypse is among us. Expect four horsemen and plagues shortly.

Bragg v. Linden Settled

The lawsuit brought against Linden Lab was settled out of court yesterday. Apparently, Bragg was given his SL account back as the result of a “misunderstanding”, SL’s TOS was changed, and no doubt money changed hands from one party to another. If it had gone to trial, it would