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PVP and the Honorable Enemy

2006-05-26T17:14:43-05:00

Recently my WoW guild has been having a bit of a debate on the merits of Player-vs.-Player (PvP) within Azeroth. My personal opinion on this is that PvP has its merits, and can be incredible fun, but the system within...

Homebrew. YaRLY.

2006-01-31T09:07:10-05:00

I will never understand the recalcitrance of hardware and software manufacturers to open up their platforms for individuals who want to program their own games. It just seems so counter to my way of thinking – it’s like trying to...

404 Evil Conspiracy Not Found

2006-01-31T07:58:53-05:00

I want to touch base with everyone here on something. I’ve read just about every crank site out there with their ‘reasoning’ about why the hardware for the 360 launch was not more widely available. Several folks want to blame...

Role Playing at Fatherhood

2006-01-25T09:33:50-05:00

So I’m sitting on the boat for the Microsoft Academic Days cruise (which I will be blogging about in a little bit), and I’m staring at the Ocean (with a capital ‘O’ because it is just that BIG), when I...

Microsoft Academic Days for Gaming

2006-01-16T14:44:10-05:00

On Wednesday, I will be leaving for a trip to Mexico and back on board (my first) cruise. The purpose of this little sojurn is to get together a bunch of folks from the academic community that are teaching (or...

New Years Resolution

2006-01-03T10:43:54-05:00

Well, my goal for 2006 is to blog more. I’ve been so incredibly consumed with stuff internal to RIT that I haven’t done as good a job as I might have here and elsewhere off campus. That being said, I’ll...

Two Oldbie's Talking

2005-06-13T16:21:26-05:00

Had a conversation with Mark Wallace today for a book he is writing for O’Reilly (‘hi’ to Tim, who was a thrill to meet). We talked about virtual worlds and use/play thereof and I had an enjoyable cup of coffee...

Graphics Don’t Matter (and other assertions)

2005-06-13T14:59:35-05:00

I’ve been reading “Graphics Don’t Matter”, as well as the “Gamer’s Manifesto”, as well as hanging out on the Serious Games listserv, and even talking to some friends. And they are all saying the same thing: “graphics don’t matter –...

Mutually Assured Destruction

2005-03-31T10:04:29-05:00

Everquest, it appears, still has a thing or two to teach us about online worlds. It has begun the process of, if not dying, then at least no longer growing. New games such as EQ2, World of Warcraft, and others...

GDC is Underway!

2005-03-07T14:38:36-05:00

Well, it is Spring again, and with it another GDC. This year the whole thing picked up and moved to San Francisco - so everything seems a little bigger, and a little grander than the old haunts of San Jose....

Whoa... its bad press time...

2005-01-28T13:55:53-05:00

Just a short one, but I went down to my faculty mailbox today and picked up the latest Communications of the ACM. For those not in higher ed, or in the sciences, CACM is the communications bulliten for the Association...

Who Ownz0rz "you" ?

2005-01-12T09:19:41-05:00

A reader brought the story at http://tinyurl.com/4ztwb to my attention, an odd post of back and forth about who “owns” a character created in a virtual world. This isn’t, actually, the first instance of this argument, it has been an...

Oh We Got Trouble

2004-11-30T10:26:00-05:00

That starts with “T” and that rhymes with “G” and that stands for GAME. It doesn’t seem like a year ago that I was harping on violence in holiday game adds with ‘Ho Ho Boom’. But apparently time flies. This...

An Interesting Followup

2004-11-20T16:59:16-05:00

Just in case you were interested, a follow-up piece to my article on B-Sides. Its posted in The Hollywood Reporter, at http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/video_games_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000724447. Interesting, and I will be back to update the blog for the coming holidays in just a little...

Box Be Thy Name

2004-10-15T08:52:20-05:00

"Thou shalt concieve of a game only as a disc within a box, that shall sit upon a shelf until it is purchased in a store, with cash or equivalent, and this model shall represent my will unto eternity." ...