Why there isn't a final version of Exult yet
The Exult Team posted a news update a few days ago, and in the hustle and bustle of traveling home I completely forgot that they had done so. Fortunately, Petrell reminded me, so for...
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
Nightly Open Thread
Pluto is still no longer considered a planet (bah!), but Planet X might be getting another shot at stardom. Or, rather, planet Tyche, a rumoured megaplanet located way far out in the Oort Cloud....
I totally missed the Titans of Ether's December Update
Actually, I think I saw a note about this at Dino’s, but never followed up on it. My bad. Anyhow, the Titans seem to have had a relatively quiet December. Zini was tied up...
Codex Dragon Does Dragon Age
Felicia “Codex Dragon” Day has been tweeting about her latest “mystery project” for the last couple of months (if not more), and today news broke concerning exactly what that project is: a six-episode Web...
Nightly Open Thread
Suppose for a moment that BioWare’s The Old Republic MMORPG fails commercially. Will the Star Wars franchise survive?
History in the Making: Civ IV's Theme Wins a Grammy
I wrote, previously: “for those of you who haven’t heard: the theme music from Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, has been nominated for a Grammy award, in the “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists” category. What...
Ultima 6 for Super NES…Online!
Twitter user and Ultima fan Cody Baxter alerted me to this online Nintendo Super NES emulation site, at which it appears that the NES port of Ultima 6 is available to play for free....
Nightly Open Thread
Blizzard…a twenty-year legacy of awesome, or a two-decade legacy of fancy window dressing on unoriginal ideas?
Richard Garriott has a plan to beat Zynga
There is a fascinating article about Richard Garriott’s new company, Portalarium, and its plan to take on social gaming giant Zynga at GamesBeat. It’s a pretty informative article, actually, structured around a discussion with...
Nightly Open Thread
The sum total computing power of humankind’s general purpose computers, world-wide, is approximately 6.4*10^18 instructions per second. Additionally, humankind’s total storage capacity, world-wide, is approximately 2.9 × 10^20 optimally compressed bytes. Respectively, that’s the...
