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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.”

Jeff Kaplan leaving as World of Warcraft lead designer, moving to new Blizzard project

Adam Martin breaks down the (not very) hidden subtext behind the recent NCsoft ‘restructurings’. All this waffle about becoming “a unified organization under NC West”, and the reporting by bloggers and journalists that this was “consolidating” the subsidiaries and offices (they were already consolidated, you know) … what a load of

Only in 2009 can you have the intersection of game balance kvetching, business ethics, and charts about the Great Recession. And believe it or not, this time it’s not even me! This was brought to my attention by a hit on my referral logs from my earlier primal scream

Raph Koster breaks down the recent Eve hoohah. Lots of folks lose their livelihoods when an empire falls, and players invested in BoB are likely upset that years of work were lost. But EVE is not a game about the height of the Roman Empire. It’s a game about

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