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Metaplace, the 2.5D virtual world Raph Koster and company have been working on, is now in open beta.

Apparently while I was out of town last week, the lawyers were busy. I think I’ve posted quite enough opinion about NCsoft and Tabula Rasa to sit this one out.

Eurogamer reviews Darkfall, gives it a 2/10. While playing for a few hours of reasonably solid combat only netted me a few increases in sword handling, a kindly fellow informed me that it would only take me “about six or eight hours to get good”. On further questioning, this

Wagner James Au weighs in with the news: according to Nielsen, Second Life pwns World of Warcraft, biyotch. Based on audience surveys regarding a hundred non-casual, pre-installed PC games, Second Life is the most played of all, registering average playtimes of 760 minutes a week per user, nearly

As the title says, I hate WoW achievements. Why? Because I enjoy PvP in WoW. Specifically, in battlegrounds. Yes, I’m sure that’s not hardcore enough for you leet gank groups that cut your teeth on the blood of the damned in Darkfall or blow up Titans in Eve

Richard Bartle recently posted the presentation slides from his IMGDC keynote. Note: bad presenters slam their entire presentation script into each Powerpoint slide, then read droningly from each slide, word for word, as if their audience were a crowd of illiterates waiting for the shaman to explain the pretty picture

Feministing dislikes Noblegarden. (I do too, but only because it’s really tedious.) To be a bit more serious, they do have a valid point, and one that could have been minimized very easily with intelligent design (for example, requiring both players to trade an item to activate the bunny