Many games claim to be the best of it’s genre, you will certainly find their descriptions littered with buzzwords like ‘unique’,’sandbox’,’cutting edge’. Of course many of a games features don’t appeal to all players and one persons holy grail is anothers poisoned chalice, Pinning down the qualities that make a game good isn’t a simple [...]
Posted in Games, News on 8-Jun-2009 at 07:23 pm UTC
Tags: Gaming Resources, mmos, RTS
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I read an “interesting” article about MMO addiction, I shall call it an article as I believe that is what it originally aimed to be, before being filled with what at times feels like general malice towards MMO games and their players.
You play a MMO, You are weak!
Smashing the first misplaced statement, I play MMOs, [...]
Posted in Games, News on 17-Feb-2009 at 10:53 pm UTC
Tags: addicts, MMO
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There is much chatter at the moment regarding Real Money Transactions (RMT) AKA microtransactions, this is largely due to hints that Bioware could made SWTOR will be driven solely by RMTs and with no subscriptions. Additionally in the last week other have announced RMTs for other games, SOE has released the Station cash that can [...]
Posted in Games, News, podcasts on 16-Dec-2008 at 10:15 pm UTC
Tags: Games, RMT
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I was reading that Amy Winehouse is to be immortalised in wax (shudder) at Madame Tussauds this year as according to the manager she is requested by guests. No I haven't visited Tussauds for many years but I seem to remember it being about getting to see life-like figures of famous people some of [...]
Posted in News on 13-Jul-2008 at 09:51 am UTC
Tags: Madame Tussauds, News, Winehouse
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In a news item over at Paul Kidby's website, Terry Pratchett has posted a small note about “an embuggerance”.
It's sad but Terry's humour shines through in the post. Wishing him all the best in the future.
Posted in News on 13-Dec-2007 at 02:18 pm UTC
Tags: News, Terry Pratchett
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