It’s been a couple of weeks since I first starting playing the HTML-based survival horror game with a substantial group from Evil Avatar, but I have to admit, I’m still having fun. By this point with most games I play, I’ve already sucked all the entertainment value out of it and am ready to ditch […]
Offline again (maybe…possibly…yeah, more than likely)
I’ll be out of town at a business conference down in sunny Phoenix, Arizona for the next three days. I might be able to make it online every now and then, especially since my hotel room is confirmed a hard-wired high-speed room. However, any time scavenged online is likely to be spent defending Malton. It’s […]
Champions Online!
So, first they sold the City of Heroes/Villains franchise to NCSoft, and then they got the Marvel MMO pulled out from under their feet. Now what’s a studio like Cryptic that only knows superheroes supposed to do? Why, that’s easy! Create a brand new superhero MMORPG based on an ancient pen and paper game license! […]
Urban Dead: it’s like a text-based ‘Night of the Living Dead’…kinda
So, I’ve been hooked on Urban Dead since sometime last week. It’s essentially an HTML interface survival horror game, with emphasis on the “survival”, and not so much on the “horror”. You join hundreds thousands lots of people online in a persistent world that is one large, sprawling city. You gather up with a group […]
Out for a while
I’m going to be away from the site for a few days. My wife’s grandmother passed away this weekend after a year-long battle with lung cancer. I don’t want to say she “lost” the battle, as so many people in these sorts of situations do. It’s always sounded so horrendously pessimistic to me. But she’s […]
Talk about a shake up
Scott Kurtz appears to be true to his word when he said that he was planning to shake things up in the PvP universe, and that things might not be the same when all was said and done. This must be how it begins. The way I figure it is that Skull must be some […]
Ficlets has competition
I know that there are other entries in the short collaborative fiction space, namely Novlet and Portrayl (both of which were profiled along with Ficlets by ReadWriteWeb a while back). But they hadn’t gained the same amount of traction and their user bases are still relatively small. However, a new challenger has appeared on the […]
Fail dart
A couple of co-workers and I decided to play a friendly game of darts over our lunch hour today. In the process, we experienced our very own “fail“. We were playing a certain type of dart game that I was unfamiliar with. Basically, you begin with 300 points and you continue to throw the darts, […]
A photo of my shame
Some may doubt my wife’s gaming prowess. May I submit to you proof that my wife is indeed, “1337”. In the photo below, my wife’s Mii is the one in the orange hat with shades. She has left me with, what, five top scores? Out of nearly thirty? A paltry sum, I declare, but I […]
Of tropics and crossbows…and gamer wives
I’m lucky in that I’ve latched onto an amazing woman for my wife. Besides her phenomenal cooking skills, her excellent brain, and her beautiful body, she also happens to be a lifelong gamer. She honed her skill on the Sega Genesis, playing Sonic the Hedgehog games. More recently, she’s been addicted to various MSN “casual” […]