Latest

News here now that IGE is out of the picture, Wowhead has decided to become a part of the ZAM Network. and here. That last link is bothering some folks… according to the author (the former director of web acquisitions for IGE), Affinity is still very closely connected to IGE

By request, our European office has requested equal time for all the jobs that I’ve been pimping here in Austin. They need a wizard specifically, so if you are a networking and server wizard in the general area of England, they want to talk to you. If you are

Julian Dibbell, friend to all RMT, writes for the New York Times on the emerging new markets in Chinese gold farming. At the end of each shift, Li reports the night’s haul to his supervisor, and at the end of the week, he, like his nine co-workers, will

This one you can blame Cuppytalk on – what does my playspace (PC and videogame) look like? (Follow the link for trackback from other Bloggers That Must Obey All Memes). Well, actually, both are pretty spartan. My PC space (thumbnails) : home-desk.jpg And my video space: home-video.jpg So,

Playnoevil has a link to a trade paper story  in Russia about the author of a Ragnarok Online server emulator losing out in court and being sent “conditionally” to prison for 3 years. The damaged party claimed that Kiseliov had used an illegal copy of the ‘official’ server part’s

As a followup to the last post, a reader linked this article about why Eve is different. More than 3 million people have tried EVE. A fraction remain. Why? Probably because most of them want to play a game. And EVE isn’t a game. It’s a revolution.

Amongst the seemingly never-ending navel gazing prompted by any public mention of SWG (and especially the NGE), Steve “Moorgard” Danuser brings up a point that’s been rubbing me the wrong way for a while now: Online games and virtual worlds are not the same thing. If you’re