Scott Jennings

From In Concept: To facilitate better and more challenging player-vs-player combat, the ability to recall will be removed from those who are an aggressor to another player. Players who wish to start a fight with other players will find it more difficult to escape if their attack goes

Allen Grey informs us: Chris Foster, recently appointed lead designer of Asheron’s Call, rises to the challenge of answering some difficult and rather pointed questions about the future of the latest MMORPG game from Microsoft. Chris gives many clues about features we may see coming soon as well as

Here’s some source material an eagle-eyed reader pointed out to me that was already on Designer Emeritus Dragon’s website. You know, with all the thought he’s put into this, he should work on a game or something. On requiring that ORPGs require you to roleplay On

Reading over my last update I see that I forgot to include this: PvP/PKing, while often referred to as the only reason to play such games as UO and AC, is also a failure when it comes to immersion/roleplaying. The reason why is simple – in all of these

Let’s talk about roleplaying. It’s a valid topic of discussion. After all, two out of four letters in the abbreviation ORPG refer to it. It must be important. Yet very few people in ORPGs roleplay. Why is this? (ignoring the few thousand people who immediately pipe up “cuz

Mary Kay Bergman took her own life this week. She was a voice actress who, among many other things, did all the female voices for South Park. Her web page was/is here. This isn’t about South Park – I don’t even get the Comedy Channel, and although you