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Scott Jennings

The Scourge Of Google

Richard Bartle indulges in understatement on contextual advertising. When my book first came out, there were ads for gold farmers on its Amazon page and there were also ads for them that popped up for Google searches on my name. My name was being associated with a service of which

You Can, Actually, Go Home Again

Kind of busy so no thumb-sucking analysis like I kind of have an urge to do, but a trend seems to be emerging I think is worth looking at: going back and fixing your old stuff instead of/in addition to adding new stuff. Cases in point: the big one

CCP Comes Out Of Left Field, Shoots Everyone In Head

CCP announces new first-person shooter console MMO that expands Eve Online The announcement, with the trailer tagline of “one universe, one war”, came at the end of a talk about the history of CCP. It left many GDC Europe keynote attendees — perhaps expecting an announcement for World Of Darkness, CCP’

I Feel Unclean

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU

The Dear Leader Will Save Us In Raids

Apparently NCsoft, according to this well-written and fact checked piece in gamesindustry.biz, is blazing a trail in opening new markets to MMOs. Sales in North Korea accounted for the largest chunk of sales profit – 57 per cent in total. North Korea’s highly militaristic “army first” state ideology should

"Let There Be Gnomes." And There Were Gnomes.

Eurogamer has an interesting piece interviewing Blizzard on the making of World of Warcraft. Blizzard would soon learn that playing and talking about EverQuest was a world away from actually building its own MMO. “We knew that it was a mammoth undertaking, but I think, at the time, we had

Interview With Noted Blogger Involves Tractor References

Grinding to Valhalla is a site that apparently wants to interview each and every MMO blogger (there are quite a lot!). Today’s my turn.