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How I Spent My Wednesday: Gordon Walton on Austin Game Development

This atypical bit of straight reporting done as a courtesy for Kain Shin and Quoc Tran of the Austin chapter of the IGDA. If you’re not a game developer, your interest in this article may be lessened. Or heightened, depending. If you ARE an Austin area game developer, and

Bill O’Reilly Hates Everything You Like

As seen in this podcast description of his frothy/ing radio show, Bill O’Reilly just plain doesn’t like you. Did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? \’e2\’80\’a6I really fear for the United States because, believe

FBI, NCsoft close pirate Lineage 2 server

Press release Federal search warrants were served on owners of L2Extreme who were also questioned during the raid. L2Extreme was providing its users with unauthorized service and code for NCsoft’s online computer game, Lineage\’c2\’ae II. The warrants enabled officials to halt L2Extreme’s operations while collecting further

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Matt Mihaly, who is among the few paying attention to a game you probably never heard of that makes a LOT of money, posted a story about how they sent legal threats to a site that charges for gold-farming guides. That company (whom I am carefully not naming!) sent a

World of Warcraft Discovered By Mainstream Media: “Like Second Life, But With Orcs”

OK, it’s not THAT bad. Quite a bit actually to hit on. Two clueless mainstream news stories, take your pick. From Slate: World of Warcraft is lame, because it’s not more like Second Life. The most obvious thing to add is customization. The MySpace generation expects a personalized

Apparently, I’m Going To Jail

Scott Jennings hid under a girl’s bed for three months.

This Time, It Really IS All About Me

As part of some mild blog cleanup, I edited the About Me page on the blog. Also note that my email has changed from scottj to sjennings -at-brokentoys-org because the spam was just becoming overwhelming and it was all from the blog email. Yay for spam.