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Apparently, being a DIY punk involves giving a talk that has nothing to do with what you promised you’d talk about. Game design theory is very complicated, he said, because people are overthinking the problem. “Theories in design are as timeless as the fashion of hats,” he said. The

From the upcoming Company of Heroes megapatch: – Timer tuned on Overwatch Cancel. – Lieutenants area of effect bonuses had an unintended side effect of slaughtering retreating infantry. These values have been modified so that this does not happen anymore, but still maintaining the efficacy of the Lieutenant’s leadership bonuses. – Lieutenants

Apple, if this rumor is accurate, blazes new trails in screwing over developers. (edit: * According to comments here and on the Kotaku story, the agreement in question hasn’t changed. * The default EULA Apple supplies to its app vendors (which can be replaced) specifically denies refunds. * Also, iPhone developers who

Blizzard can stop advertising in addons, but they can’t stop it on websites! “Hey, I like games with orcs. This game has orcs! Sign me up!”

The recent Blizzard add-on mess has brought up – in my mind anyway, as well as some others – some age-old questions about player rights in games through exposing a pretty core dichotomy in how people look at online games. On the one side, you have the people who take

In Ultima Online’s Publish 13 notes Darkfall’s March 21 notes, Runesabre Tasos notes that availability is improving even though you still can’t technically buy the game, and then goes on to explain: We have been permanently banning all accounts that we detect are using 3d party software

Announcement on the official forums Which sucks for these guys. Also, apparently, for this guy, who plans to cease development of a mod which, though donation-ware, has supported him as a full time job. Possibly because his addon has more users than most MMOs. Speculation is that this was