I’d hate to call this pack of fallacies an informed interview, since that presupposes a reasonable grasp and analysis of facts, but there are plenty of grandstanding quotes from a lawyer who like to misdirect the blame for violence onto video games. It’s the same paranoid, "blame the culture" crap that promised we’d have packs …
A lot of folks are complaining on the World of Warcraft forums about the slow peer-to-peer distribution system that Blizzard chose to distribute their game patches. I can’t say I blame them, cause its painful to watch it download at a glacial 4 KB/s while a bittorent for the same file downloads at 210 KB/s. …
Dungeons and Dragons turned 30 this past Saturday, just 6 months older than me. What better way to celebrate than by watching the Dungeon Majesty teaser! first seen here: Boing Boing: Live-action women’s Dungeons and Dragons show
The nwe Paranoia role-playing game is out and here is anRPGnet: Review of Paranoia XP. This post is mostly for Jason who’s the only Paranoia player I’ve ever known. I stuck to more traditional fare like D&D and TMNT in middle school. The original PARANOIA is one of the best roleplaying games ever published, a …
Doc Searls has a good summary about Viacomm and Dish Network settling their recent spat over carrying Viacomm’s bundle of channels. Unfortunately, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Why not? I think it’s because nobody who makes most of their money on advertising wants to see consumers become customers. Viacom, for example, is …
This flash recreation of the Dark Tower board game from the 80’s is a true labor of love. Don’t confuse it with the comic strip Dork Tower.
Yes, leave it to me to post my gift giving advice to one week prior to Christmas but you still have the weekend to shop. If you’re looking for a good gift for that special geek in your life, I’d highly recommend picking up a Nintendo GameCube. The chief reason is the low price and …
Came across an interesting tip today that if your x-box magazine demo cd doesn’t work you should boil it. Back in my day we had cartridges and if they didn’t work you blew on the connectors. And we liked it!
Thanks to Google Groups and the atitvout project, I got my MAME Box outputting the display signal through the tvout. It didn’t work until I changed my X-Free config file to use the Vesa VBE driver instead of the ati driver.
Galactic Civilizations is a better MOO than MOO3, that’s my first impression having played the game for about a week now. I haven’t played MOO3 and based on the overall bad reviews of it I will stay away. StarDock’s game definitely has that “just one more turn” appeal that hypothecially may keep you up until …