Scott Jennings

Valleywag doomcasts Second Life for the sin of no longer being trendy. Those who can’t do, teach. Second Life, the most overhyped virtual world, has been abandoned even by its most fervent journalistic promoters, like Reuters and Wired. It’s now pitching itself as an online schoolhouse. The article

Funcom announces $23 million loss last quarter based on $22 million depreciation of Age of Conan expenses, CFO resigns. Shortly after Age of Conan launched, Funcom saw subscriber levels of 400,000, which rocketed up to 700,000 within a few months. While Funcom’s cash position remains robust at

Making Games, By EA’s John Riccitiello: * Recessions are cool, because they put our competitors out of business. * We will spend this year cutting headcount, closing facilities, and minimizing risk. * Cutting headcount, closing facilities, and minimizing risk is a bad idea. Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello says the current economic

So, a more serious look at Darkfall’s incipient release. Most of the traffic on the boards and blogs recently seems to be doomcasting Darkfall pretty harshly. It’s not a AAA MMO, its ruleset is ridiculously hardcore, and it is doing its level best to minimize the number of

For those of you still muttering to this day about something called Trammel, your ship has arrived. Probably one of my favorite aspects of PvP combat that makes Darkfall unique is the incapacitation of a player when they reach zero life (excluding the rare and freakish decapitation). This starts a

Someone asked me “So what would you do if you had a forum with 5 million active posters?” and my immediate answer was “Shut it down.”