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I spotted echoes of this story when I was in Korea and now Arnold Hendrick’s Tidbits newsletter (email only, so no link) found the original story: NCsoft gets a criminal court conviction, Lineage bot makers cry foul. Many echoes to the past here. (note: 1000 Won = $1, or at

“Seed“, an MMO where you are an intergalactic repairman, also launched during E3. Consensus seems to be: interesting graphic look, some good ideas, doesn’t actually work. Or as Soukyan posted on F13: Apparently, I am a floating head now. I don’t know if this is a beta tester

Atari’s response to FiringSquad about recent yanking of support for NWN1: Hey, uh, fans can still make modules and, uh, NWN2 is way cool! As a comment to the story said: When someone answers your question with the answers to a completely different question; you can be sure their

An interesting opinion here that states, bluntly: Apple has no real corporate interest in the gaming community and does not see computer games as a path to success or a better image for Apple. Why, given the multi-billion dollar level of return on investment in gaming? Well… uh… they’

CNet has an interesting article questioning Second Life’s fiscal sanity: “Second Life” currently runs on 2,579 servers that use the dual-core Opteron chip produced by AMD. Each server is responsible for an individual “sim,” or 16 acres of virtual “Second Life” land. At peak usage that means

Raph Koster weighs in with a fascinating discussion of what went into UO’s gloriously failed ecology design. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). The last big element, however, was that there were a fair amount of team members who saw the whole system as a boondoggle, and not worth

Police seize video games in a killer’s apartment based on Jack Thompson’s advice. “Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer,” Thompson told the paper. (Link, and bad joke, from q23)