BUT IT’S NOT SEPTEMBER 1! [Author: Lum the Mad] World War II Online, the game that allows you to smite the wicked Frenchmen, has gone gold and is set to arrive in stores June 5.
“WE’RE PANDERING TO THE BASEST INSTINCTS OF MAN? AWESOME!” [Author: Lum the Mad] The New Yorker has a story up about the evolving of the seamier side of Ultima Online (which would be, um, most of it). Certainly hyperinflation and mass extinction are not, while they are happening, a lot of fun, and U.O.’s designers acknowledge the commercial costs of the
STAR WARS GALAXIES: PROBABLY WON’T SUCK [Author: Lum the Mad] On a Computer Screen Far, Far Away Last Thursday I had an opportunity to watch a closed-door preview for Star Wars Galaxies, a MMOG expected to be released sometime in 2002 barring production delays that often accompany games of this scale. Also introduced was gameplay from the future expansion which
SALON DISCOVERS GAMING GEEKS LIKE LARGE-BREASTED WOMEN; ALSO RUMORED TO BE ABOUT TO CONFIRM THAT SOME WOMEN ARE ODDLY CRANKY EVERY THREE WEEKS [Author Wagner James Au, Salon’s idiot savant of gaming, was also at E3, thus proving that even the barely coherent are getting disgusted with Mike Wilson. The confluence of porn and games was surely at its most evident on the GOD lot. Gathering of Developers was founded by exiles from
J CASTS RES SPELL ON XRGAMING, REAPPEARS AT NEW BIND POINT [Author: Lum the Mad] And speaking of raising from the dead, J. and company have surfaced here, complete with soothingly familiar layout and a report from E3. In probably related news, I was just told by my bank that XRGaming’s final check to us bounced. Guess I shouldn’t have waited a month
AN ARTICLE THAT ONLY PERIPHALLY INVOLVES SHADOWBANE, THUS SUCKS [Author: Lum the Mad] Jessica Mulligan’s “Biting the Hand” column managed to convince Skotos to cast a res spell on it. Thus you’ll find it here. That is all.