I noticed while touring Azeroth recently that the colour yellow doesn’t get much use in the palettes in Outland and Northrend. And desert zones don’t really translate at all – it just seems to be a climate that isn’t Outlandian, along with jungles. I wonder how many deserts will be left after the Cataclysm … [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Trick or Treat?
Posted in general mmo, tagged chocolate, guilds, hallowe'en, kinship, sweet swap, sweets on September 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Over the past year, I’ve been running ‘sweet swaps’ for our LotRO kinship. It involves members of the kin giving me their real life details (name/address) and then me doing some shuffling to enable everyone to send and receive a goody bag. Think Secret Santa, but outside of Xmas. In fact, it did actually start last Christmas [...]
What can change the nature of a man?
Posted in geekery, links, single player games, tagged good old games, planescape torment on September 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Probably the most cleverly plotted RPG ever made, and with one of the most engaging settings ever written. I don’t think we’ve yet seen its like again. Now available on GoG …
When a man is tired of raiding, he’s tired of … MMOs?
Posted in general mmo, tagged mmo, old gameplay, raiding, tired on September 28, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I don’t know about any of you but I’m just not as into raiding these days as I used to be. I still enjoy the social side because I like the people in my regular raids a lot, but I know that I used to … care more. When I first started raiding properly in [...]
The strange and misleading art of achievement-o-mancy
Posted in general mmo, tagged achievements, cataclysm, prediction, what are achievements used for on September 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s amazing how much you can tell from a list of achievements! I know this because, like a lot of other people, I’ve been scanning the new Cataclysm achievements as they get updated on websites from the beta information. It feels like reading tea-leaves, or poking through the entrails of some small furry creature, or [...]
Gaming News: Good Old Games is dead or is it?, Facebook revises gaming platform, Civ 5, Frogster axes senior management
Posted in general mmo, tagged civilisation 5, facebook, frogster, gaming news, gog, planet michael on September 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Next weekend, Arb and I are off to the Eurogamer Expo so hopefully will be able to share a few hands on thoughts. And when I say hands on, I mean screens viewed dimly over the backs of a bunch of other gamers, most of whom are taller than we are. Looking forwards to meeting [...]
CCP announces Vampire MMO! And it’s based on Masquerade.
Posted in general mmo, world of darkness online, tagged ccp, mmo, vampire, vampire the masquerade, world of darkness online on September 25, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Tim Bradstreet is one of the quintessential V:tM artists Dear Mina, Finally, the wait is over. V. There will be a White Wolf/ CCP Vampire MMO, and it is due out in 2012 (at the earliest). The announcement was made at White Wolf’s Grand Masquerade event, as predicted, and is all over twitter on #grandmasquerade. [...]
Cataclysm: Peacebloom v Ghouls
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged blizzard, free realms, minigame, peacebloom v ghouls, plants vs zombies, popcap, wizard 101 on September 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Anyone who was paying attention to the latest list of Cataclysm achievements will have noticed a couple for surviving waves of “Peacebloom v Ghouls.” And if, like me, you love Popcap games you were probably dancing around at that point, because it could only mean one thing: Plants v Zombies comes to Warcraft. And as [...]
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