Monthly Archives: June 2006

The end is nigh!

By Matt | June 20, 2006

(as seen on Shacknews) 
And I had just signed back up to DAOC again.
While EA acquiring Mythic …yeah, that's what I said, probably won't affect DAOC, it'll most likely kill Warhammer. Damn.
Somebody play that funky bugle tune. 

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Bartle stole my idea! Ok, not really…

By Matt | June 20, 2006

I noticed on Lum's (Scott Jennings's) blog, this post about a post Richard Bartle made on his blog . He talks about about having a useful friends list in an MMORPG.
Which is a great idea and was even better when I talked about it last year (see #3). Ok, not quite the same, but along [...]

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Lucas Arts president is pretty retarded.

By Matt | June 16, 2006

(originally seen on ShackNews)
You’d think the last company making public statements about how to make games would be Lucas Arts. I mean come on. Their in-house development is a joke and the development houses they hire are never on time (Except Obsidian, but we’ll talk about that in a moment).
But, instead, we have the [...]

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Ever played Battlefield? ‘Cause these Posters are pretty good.

By Matt | June 16, 2006

Carl H. Schorlemmer III is my new friend. Why do you ask? Because he takes WWII posters and makes them relevant for today's youngsters. A fair amount of those are really good, but some them are great:
 

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I don’t get it.

By Matt | June 16, 2006

Great, I can now buy .PDF versions of Hasbro’s (Hasbro owns WOTC) D&D books for the (and this is part that sticks in my craw) same price? WTF? What is the advantage to that? I can now buy the books that normally come hardcover, digitized and…print them out? This makes absolutely no sense to me. [...]

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