INSERT STEAM METAPHOR HERE So I woke up at 4:30a, as I do sometimes, being old and cranky. However, today it had a bright spot in that I was able to play Half Life 2. This is a good thing, since apparently no one else can. Even the retail, in a box versions
ANDA’S GAME Thought the tales of MMOs inhabited by third world sweatshops grinding out a few measly gold pieces a day are a bit sci-fi? So did this guy. > Do you know who these people are that you’re killing? She didn’t answer, but she had an idea. She
CRUNCH CRUNCH BABY Catharsis Diatharsis Damocles I’ve personally experienced crunch time, both within and without the game industry. Ironically, the crunch time I experienced outside the gaming industry was far worse, so I’ll describe that. I like project charts. They’re pretty. They show where everyone is supposed to be, what
IN RELATED NEWS, TOLKIEN ENTERPRISES SUES EVERY MMO THAT HAS AN ORC IN IT In a “Can they really do that?” moment, Marvel is suing the City of Heroes developers and publishers for, basically, having a bad name filter. Marvel claims the firms’ are responsible because the game is played on servers operated by the companies, raising the question of whether a company is
A BRIEF, CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL NOTE For some reason I’m not terribly torn up at Arafat’s demise. I’m also not convinced things will get much better as a result. Kind of gives you a little perspective about our own political troubles.
SCOTT UPGRADES BLOG, THEN WALKS AWAY WHILE IT BLOWS UP Don’t have time to trick it out in all the fancy colours, so you get the default WordPress theme for right now. It adds stuff. I like stuff. It also makes the web site not run approximately as slow as a Commodore 64. I like Commodore 64s.