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E3

Finally home from E3. I seem to have picked up the travel crud common to any event where you eat one meal a day and sleep 3 hours a day for a week.
There’s a lot more coming about the MMOG things we saw at the show, so if you haven’t checked out Massively’s E3 coverage, […]

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Fly safe!

Yep, I got sucked back into EVE Online recently. (I blame the guys from The Drone Bay and Turpster.) EVE has just always fascinated me as a game, despite the fact that after monkeying around with it off and on for about a couple of years now, I still suck tremendously at it. One of […]

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

QQ moar, AIM games

As you know, I work for Massively, which is a division of Weblogs, Inc. which is owned by AOL / Time Warner. Yep, we’re sucking from the corporate teat. Guilty as charged. Gotta pay the bills, and as I’ve said, I love my job.
That said, we have only the teeniest of contact with Corporate. Most […]

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

OMG

This weekend marks my “elevation” to a full-fledged Raid Lemur* for my guild. I’ve done assist before many times, but this is the first time I’ve been left all alone on my own to herd quite that many cats at once. To say it’s a bit nerve-wracking is an understatement. I just hope I do […]

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Half-Life 2 + 9 year old’s fanfic + FARK.com = epic win

I’m not a huge FPS person (Bioshock being about the extent of my FPS gaming, currently) but I couldn’t help laughing myself silly at this. After all, anyone who’s been connected to gaming at all knows about Valve’s titles and characters.

Epic win, I’m telling you. For the full text of the 9 year old’s fanfic […]

Monday, January 28th, 2008