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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

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

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

“Soldiers heading to Iraq use simulations like today’s video games in order to prepare for war,” (Illinois Governor Rod) Blagojevich said in a statement. “That may all be OK if you’re a mature adult or a soldier training to fight, but is that really necessary for a 10-

I don’t think (online multiplayer games) get impacted at all (by the current recession), because people who play them are addicts … Losing their jobs makes them more likely to play because they have more time to play. — Michael Pachter, gaming industry analyst (via Massively) (explanation of post title for

Via GigaOM, DFC Intelligence’s top 10 global list of MMOs – by income generated. Takeaways: 1: OMGCHINA. It’s not broken down in the figures, but my suspicion is China is a pretty hefty portion of World of Warcraft’s revenue stream as well, despite the revenue per user being

Adam Martin has a plan for dealing with recruiters. I’ve never failed to appreciate the sheer… gumption of recruiters who call you on your work phone. “Hi, this is Scott. How’d you get this number. Oh, you got it from my business card passed down from three other