Gamer Lays It Down

Posted on March 7, 2008
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With industry luminaries bemoaning the state of the PC games market and prophets of doom proclaiming the death of PC gaming around the web, its nice to see someone who cares enough to tell the devs and publishers how it should be. I’m not going to add anymore to this, Mark says it all.

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Wordpress 2.5 Should Improve Embed Handling

Posted on March 6, 2008
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This peice of news comes as a relief to me; as of next week, once WP2.5  is released, the problems with the layout of this post should be a thing of the past. An excerpt from the Blog Herald’s WordPress Wednesday post detailing some of the improvements follows the jump. Read more

BBC Talks To EVE’s Economist

Posted on March 6, 2008
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The BBC has an article up on its website about the role of Dr Eyjo Gudmundsson, CCP’s pet economist, and how the game could be used to model real world economics. As usual with the BBC coverage of gaming, they don’t really go into that much depth with the article but at least it is highlighting the role that virtual economies may play in studying how real economies behave. Peronally I think that the political aspects of EVE and the upcoming elections for the Council of Stellar Management are alot more intriguing.

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New NIN Album Released Online

Posted on March 6, 2008
Filed Under Creativity, Music, Web 2.0 stuff, links | 1 Comment

I apologise for the lateness of this news (it won’t be news to people who were paying attention) but this one completely passed me by, too much time spent in WoW methinks.

(Note: clicking on the ‘read more’ link will lead you to what looks like a broken page, this is due to the embedded music player, everything still works as it should its just the layout thats screwy. Wordpress can’t handle the <object> and <embed> tags. If anyone has any suggestions for fixing this feel free to let me know in the comments)

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Gary Gygax 1938-2008

Posted on March 5, 2008
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There are unlikely to be many people who have influenced the culture of today’s gamers as much as Gary Gygax. His creation has become synonymous with role-playing games since it hacked and slashed its way into existence in 1974. An entire generation owes much to the imagination and creativity of Gary and the game known to many simply as DnD.

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EVE Online - Now Available on Steam

Posted on February 28, 2008
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As announced, the largest online universe is now available through Valve’s digital delivery system, Steam. Go forth and get it now, a universe is waiting.

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The obligatory Entrecard post.

Posted on February 27, 2008
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It seems that everyone else is doing it (well not everyone, but quite a lot of people) so I thought I’d relate my experience with Entrecard. I don’t normally write about this kind of thing but I reckoned that this was worth a mention. Maybe I can convert you to using Entrecard on your own blog (if you don’t already). Read more

Its eating me up…

Posted on February 25, 2008
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I have something to write about, but I can’t write about it. Sucks to be me eh?

In other news:

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Simon Of Space is now available

Posted on February 18, 2008
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Simon Of Space, by the author known as Cheeseburger Brown, from whose pen came The Darth Side and other great works of internet science fiction, has been published and is available from Amazon US, Barnes and Noble and direct from the publisher.
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The Writers Are No Longer Revolting

Posted on February 12, 2008
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Yes the writers strike I wrote about is now over, screenwriters will be returning to work tomorrow. It seems that the threat of disruption to the annual circle jerk that is the Oscars was too great. Unfortunately this does not mean that we’re getting the rest of season 2 of Heroes, Season 3 starts filming in April and should hit screens stateside in September. No news as to when we’re getting season 2 over here in blighty, I would expect it to be about a year after the states does :(

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