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J., of Shadowbane fame, pointed me over to lover\’e2\’80\’99s quarrel between a developer and an empire. After reading a fairly recent review of Anarchy Online at gamesdomain.com, Jason Booth, a developer at Turbine, seemed to take issue with the following paragraph: With such experimental technology and

Under terms of the agreement, VU Publishing has been granted the exclusive license to manufacture, market, and distribute Dark Age Of Camelot at retail locations throughout the United States and Canada. Mythic Entertainment will publish the online pay-for-play, massively multiplayer game for the PC CD- ROM platform. “Leveraging Vivendi Universal

I’ve seen a lot of Ultima Online in my day. I’ve seen Firedog and I’ve seen Rainman. I’ve seen Sunsword days I thought would never end. Okay, so I’m not James Taylor. Neither is James Taylor anymore. Quick, before I derail once again, here’s

News from the world of off-line games (For some of you, it is news that such games still exist), as Gamespot reports massive layoffs at SirTech’s Canadian outpost. Progress on two major projects has been stopped: Wizardry 9 and Jagged Alliance 3. SirTech cites financial troubles as the reason

Computer games are good for you, says a study from the British Economic and Social Research Council: “People who play games regularly seem to develop a mental state that we have seen before only in serious athletes or professionals SUCH AS ASTRONAUTS, whose life depends on concentration and co-ordination,” said

Well, great, whose bitch am I going to be now? Shortly after finally spitting out Anachronox, Eidos/Ion Storm spit out marquee-name designers Tom Hall and John “Hubris? Never heard of it” Romero. I guess the prospect of Daikatana 2 never really caught on\’e2\’80\’a6 Opposition to the

Funcom to Industry: “If we release the game early, does that mean we can charge early, too?” Pushing the envelope of tolerable software beyond the pale, Funcom’s Anarchy Online has been reported to actually have been online now. A hiker carrying a camera had been tracking this elusive abberation