Rather Infrequent Open Thread
The no longer anywhere even remotely approaching nightly open thread at Ultima Aiera.
Tagged: United States
I'll Be Traveling Today
Since I’ll be spending most of today in the air, as it were, there probably won’t be much in the way of other articles posted to the site. Though I’ll try and check comments from time to time, and will have access to email whilst in airports.
"The most important…decision that the video game industry has…faced."
That’s what Jennifer Mercurio, Entertainment Consumers Association vice president and general counsel, is terming the looming Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association Supreme Court decision, for which oral arguments are being presented tomorrow....
Ultimate Ultima Collection for sale (6 days only!)
He’s asking $30,000 US for the whole lot, but trust me when I say: it is nothing short of an insane collection. Indeed, about the only thing he isn’t selling is a gold master...
Opposing California's "violent video games" law
Also known as AB 1179, California’s “violent games law” was passed back in 2005. In short, the bill stipulated that “all violent games be required to have a large ’18’ sticker placed on [the]...
Quoth Warren Spector: most game devs are "still making cartoons"
The former Ultima developer is evidently a bit down on the approach many big-name game developers are taking these days: …one of his main problems with games’ stories is their tendency to be dude-centric...
