Scott Jennings

Sadly, the biggest story to hit Austin yesterday wasn’t an April Fool’s joke – Time Warner, the local cable provider, announced that tiered pricing and bandwidth caps would be coming into effect virtually immediately, for Austin/San Antonio TX, Rochester NY, and Greensboro NC. It’s no coincidence whatsoever

Funniest: City of Heroes wins, hands down, but I’m old-school and biased. Almost Most Disturbing: World of Warcraft forums translates each and every post into Blizzard’s vision of roleplaying. Not A Joke But Should Be: If you live in Austin, hope you switched off of Time Warner! (UVerse

Keen has the write-up of GMs supposedly being selective with service based on who’s city you’re pwning. Fact? Rumor? YOU MAKE THE CALL (because I’m a horrible carebear who doesn’t own the game and should pray for death, so I can’t). Aventurine continues to open

Well, if you’re going to clone World of Warcraft, you could do worse than listen to the guys who cloned Everquest. Jeff Kaplan gave an opinionated talk that will probably have WoW players posting furiously for weeks. “This is the worst quest in World of Warcraft,” he said. “I

Apparently, being a DIY punk involves giving a talk that has nothing to do with what you promised you’d talk about. Game design theory is very complicated, he said, because people are overthinking the problem. “Theories in design are as timeless as the fashion of hats,” he said. The

From the upcoming Company of Heroes megapatch: – Timer tuned on Overwatch Cancel. – Lieutenants area of effect bonuses had an unintended side effect of slaughtering retreating infantry. These values have been modified so that this does not happen anymore, but still maintaining the efficacy of the Lieutenant’s leadership bonuses. – Lieutenants