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Scott Jennings

Doubt Thou The Stars Are Fire

How PvP works: Step 1: Global war between bitter enemies rages for years and years and years Step 2: As part of that war, someone tries to join one of the warring parties, and after paying his entry fee is told “thanks, no thanks” (this being a common scam, since

Really. Freaking. Tired.

THQ decides Mythic needs to be trumped, lays off 600.

Rituals Of The Betrayed

I have seen a lot of layoffs these past few years. I have survived a number of them. I have fallen to a few of them. I have talked to far too many friends, on the phone, through email, through IM, over beer, watching them tear up from the sense

Really. Freaking. Tired. Of. Posting. These.

60+ people laid off at Mythic today. Edit: official comment.

Fixing MMOs Is Hard

Tom Chick: MMOs are broken! Fix! The Narrator: No, you mean WoW is broken. And now we have: Trembling Hand: Oh come on, they’re broken, fix plz. So I thought I’d share my jaded, broken-on-the-wheel-of-pain response to the above. A caveat: if someone released a game with all

Warhammer Online Releases Big/Small Numbers

Embedded in EA’s quarterly report this afternoon: Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning®, an MMO from EA’s Mythic Entertainment studio, ended the quarter with over 300K paying subscribers in North America and Europe. The good news is that 300,000 is not a shabby subscriber level to be at

But, You Know, Bisexual Vampires Are Totally Cool

Sanya Weathers on… um, lots. Mostly about That Girl In Vent You All Know. But also about Twilight! The sound of your voice is like a vampire’s fang. Not that we believe in vampires, unlike you. And seriously, side note, grow up. The Twilight books are shitty fantasy lite