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TIME AND PLACE Imagine you are a gaming company running a successful MMOG. While readying your servers for not only a patch that adds new content and software, you are also upgrading the hardware of those servers. The day before the patch, one of your customers decides that immediate action

Not posted to Lum, because it would threadjack the thread in question painfully. I may post this as an update in the next day or two, I may not. I haven’t really decided yet. Since I’ve criticized Verant for not responding to their critics, though, I really have

As you may have heard by now, the GodGames family has decided to move on and do something new. Take 2 decided to stop funding the shitty and unfinished games we were publishing. We had a great run in the gaming business, released some fun titles, and threw some hellacious

Ignoring the fact that a roleplay server is a stupid idea (Let me save you time in the discussion forum here, actually. “Players want it!” “Players don\’e2\’80\’99t know what they want. Players will spend 5 minutes on the roleplay server, realize they don\’e2\’80\’99t have

Well, here’s a completely innocuous little update offering up just a mild-mannered informational finger pointed happily at a Shadowbane interview done by IGN. No hysteria, no boobs, no biased reporting, no fan bouys, no lesbian pr0n, no mass-firings, no collapsing ad networks, no CS abuses that are so trite

DAVE ALLEN WHERE ARE YOU? Two emails arrived regarding the state of affairs at Artifact Entertainment and its forward thinking online product, Horizons. The first one was a cut/paste of an update at another website, so forgive me if it reads like a stereo instruction manual. Short of it…

First stop is the King of All Internet Rumors, Fatbabies, who has reported here that “…Sierra was cut virtually in half, with multiple projects being canceled. The Hoyle line will be retained, as all it takes to sell another 400,000 copies is to repackage the thing in a new