In an investor Q&A yesterday, John Riccitello (CEO of EA) announced that Mass Effect 3 was going to be tweaked for a larger market via some handwavey changes that involve game mechanics. You might think that – with an eye to the console best sellers of last year – they’d be aiming to CODBLOPSify the [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Bioware tweaks Mass Effect 3 for a larger market
Posted in general mmo, tagged bioware, dragon age, larger market, mass effect, wow on May 6, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Optimisation doesn’t belong in my MMOs
Posted in general mmo, tagged gurps vehicles, mmo, nils, optimisation, spreadsheet on May 5, 2011 | 50 Comments »
A long time ago, in the esoteric pen and paper RPG world of GURPS (don’t worry if you have never heard of it), somebody wrote a gaming supplement called GURPS Vehicles. It contained rules for players to design and ‘build’ any kind of vehicle they could imagine, from any genre, and then use it in [...]
SOE joins Sony security-breach party, legendary weapons – good or bad?, and why can’t we have more villains like Loki?
Posted in general mmo, tagged 4.2, legendary weapon, loki, security breach, SOE, station, wow on May 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yes, another day, another gratuitous Thor link/screenshot. (ps. I loved this film.) Tom Hiddleston’s turn as Loki is probably one of the best things about Thor, and this is where (after Marvel et al screwed up Doctor Doom in the Fantastic 4 films) we finally get to see a proper charismatic personal nemesis with some [...]