by Will Hindmarch | Mar 18, 2009 | MMOs, RPGs, Sci Fi, Video Games
At Ten Ton Hammer, a member of the notorious/infamous/renowned Goonswarm writes about EVE Online: There is a jagged fissure of insanity which runs through the heart of the EVE playerbase, a kind of feverish bad crazy that you simply don’t find in other online...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 19, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs
This post by Christian Lindke, in reaction to my “Noob’s Lament” post last week, got me thinking again about the value of noobs. This started as a comment to Christian’s post, but expanded into more musings once I got the Matrix metaphor in...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 10, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
This thing’s been sitting in my drafts for a couple of weeks, hoping for some blast of insight that would turn this post into a serious analysis revealing some essential kernel of the gaming experience. With Jimmy Fallon as our proxy noob. But who the...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 3, 2009 | Fantasy, MMOs, Movies, RPGs, Video Games
Machinima isn’t typically my thing… but tell me this isn’t story + game: The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo. Wonderfully done. Fight scenes this complicated can be headaches to choreograph and cut, but the elaborate layers of action here...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 26, 2009 | Board Games, card games, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
This was tough, but we’ve got the winner in our Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria contest. We had some great entries submitted to us in comments and via email, but there can be only one winner. Some submissions were wonderfully provocative, some cut to...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 19, 2009 | Board Games, Design, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
Krist Novoselic, bassist of Nirvana, tries out Rock Band: More recently, while walking through a one-stop shopping center, I encountered the Rock Band 2 video game. It was set up on display for customers to try. I know about Rock Band, because Nirvana has some songs...
