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So today some old-school video games from Richard Garriott’s collection were moved into the hallway outside our offices. Here one of our artists admires the particle effects from 1985.

Busy today, so not nearly enough time to give this the mocking it deserves: Axl Springer opens a new tabloid within Second Life Clearly, the event horizon of Second Life media propaganda has not nearly been reached yet.

Unlike Ubiq, I’m not going to bravely come out and be the lone voice of liberalism in the game industry. Suffice to say that I was pleased at the result, but only because the Republican majority has been anything but conservative in its actions. (Note: invading sovereign countries and

NotAddicted has a review of every MMO to date’s attempt to make a HaRDc0RE PVP server. Worth a read/chuckle. In most cases, the amount of people who beg for a hardcore PvP server is infinitely greater than the amount people who will actually play it for more than

Gamespot has a story on a WoW guild that was banned for “wall-hacking” AQ40 because, well, let’s just go straight to C’thun, OK? The usually insightful PlayNoEvil security blog asks “uh, isn’t that supposed to be impossible on an MMO? With, like servers and stuff?” Hah.

From Korea, land of the morning calm and the evening starcraft, comes this report: Virtual reality that has been the craze of so many Koreans is moving into the real world _ violently. Hyon-P, a compound word derived from \’e2\’80\’9chyonsil” (reality) and an online game term “Player Kill’

…1UP (by way of “Games for Windows”, formerly “Computer Gaming World”, and I’m all out of parentheticals) posted a review of Neverwinter Nights 2. The reviewer disliked it – not because of weak dialogue or heavy system requirements or a clunky user interface. No. The reviewer disliked it because in