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Scott Jennings

Kotaku Is Awesome

Apple, if this rumor is accurate, blazes new trails in screwing over developers. (edit: * According to comments here and on the Kotaku story, the agreement in question hasn’t changed. * The default EULA Apple supplies to its app vendors (which can be replaced) specifically denies refunds. * Also, iPhone developers who

Marketing War Is Everywhere

Blizzard can stop advertising in addons, but they can’t stop it on websites! “Hey, I like games with orcs. This game has orcs! Sign me up!”

Rights, Profit, Drama

The recent Blizzard add-on mess has brought up – in my mind anyway, as well as some others – some age-old questions about player rights in games through exposing a pretty core dichotomy in how people look at online games. On the one side, you have the people who take Blizzard’s

Darkfall Improving, Now In 1999 Instead Of 1997

In Ultima Online’s Publish 13 notes Darkfall’s March 21 notes, Runesabre Tasos notes that availability is improving even though you still can’t technically buy the game, and then goes on to explain: We have been permanently banning all accounts that we detect are using 3d party software

Blizzard: No Charging For Addons

Announcement on the official forums Which sucks for these guys. Also, apparently, for this guy, who plans to cease development of a mod which, though donation-ware, has supported him as a full time job. Possibly because his addon has more users than most MMOs. Speculation is that this was sparked

A Subtle Commentary On Faith

Don’t shoot the puppy.

This Just In: Women Exist In The Gaming Industry

Tom Chick at Fidgit justifiably lambasts a clueless blog posting. Women are being “left on sidelines” in the “video game revolution”, according to the LA Times… But the real question is – assuming it is, indeed a Bad Thing – what can be done about it? And the answer to this, I