So my girlfriend bought me Super Paper Mario yesterday, after listening to me talk about it for the past 2 months. Her first attempt to silence me, arsenic, didn’t work, so the option buying this for me must have been a close second. Of course, I was ecstatic: girls, video games, girls giving me video […]

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Well, anyone who’s been to the site in the past couple of days has probably noticed some changes. First of all, I changed the top of the site, mostly because the theme I started with in Wordpress was well designed and coded, but hideously misshapen (the top part of the site was seriously like 30% […]

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I found this video earlier today, and figured that it needed to be shared. I’m excited for the next game in the Super Mario series and from the looks of this video, I don’t think I’m going to be disappointed.
It looks like there’s heavy emphasis on moving around on non-flat surfaces, which is totally cool. […]

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One thing that games nowadays aren’t missing is quests. There are plenty of quests everywhere, some of them to kill ten rats, some of them to take this letter to the other npc, and some of them to guide you to the next step of your journey. In fact, there are so many quests in […]

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Being a big fan of the original Fable game for Xbox (as well as embittered by how short the entire game was), seeing an article at gamespot about the upcoming Fable 2 piqued my interest.

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In Guild Wars, when you run a mission (or even adventure in the world, which is still instanced for your party), all loot that drops is assigned to a player immediately. This in and of itself is just a new spin on a popular loot distribution method. Most games will simply allow people to roll for the loot if they want it, but Guild Wars assumes that you’ll want all drops, or at least not pick them up if you don’t. It’s a neat-o system, and I’ve always been a fan.

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In light of my last post, I wanted to talk about running, movement, and travel in online games. More specifically, I want to talk about why moving, running, and traveling for no specific reason is often so much better than traveling as part of a quest or duty.
Maybe it’s just the type of player I […]

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Well, after having played Lord of the Rings Online for a couple days after my initial reaction, I’ve changed opinions on a couple of points (and I’ve also gained opinions on a couple of new points!).

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Adrian Crook over at freetoplay.biz wrote an incredibly insightful and useful article regarding some strategies that online game designers can use to lower the barriers to entry to their games, as well as keep the players in their games longer while still monetizing a small percentage of them.

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Recents posts from Tobold’s and Random-battle have sparked a discussion of sorts on the merits and demerits of player-created content in MMORPGs.

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