DATELINE: January 11, 2011. The following image is posted to the German home page of Frogster’s “Runes of Magic”, one of the most popular free-to-play MMOs with over 4 million users. The image was quickly removed, and the Frogster community team ...

In Reid's defense, no one involved in the development of Rift is likely to be shot into space this year.David Reid, marketing VP at Trion, on Rift’s new finger-in-the-eye advertising campaign targeting World of Warcraft: If you’re an MMO gamer, Azeroth ...

In Reid's defense, no one involved in the development of Rift is likely to be shot into space this year.David Reid, marketing VP at Trion, on Rift’s new finger-in-the-eye advertising campaign targeting World of Warcraft: If you’re an MMO gamer, Azeroth ...

As some of you know, I have interests in gaming that go beyond the killing of orcs for their pants. Earlier this week I filled in on the well-respected “Three Moves Ahead” wargaming podcast discussing the new monster “War In ...

Discuss: Caption suggestions here. See the original post here: Public Relations In The Gaming Industry Described In One Helpful Picture

Starting with this posts, comments on blog stories are being moved to a new system. Which system, you might ask? These new forums over here! Read more from the original source: Because A Decade’s Been Long Enough To Forget!

Starting with this posts, comments on blog stories are being moved to a new system. Which system, you might ask? These new forums over here! Read more from the original source: Because A Decade's Been Long Enough To Forget!

Somewhat relevant: how hard-core wargames actively alienate potential customers through having painful UI. Imagine this scenario. You are the Supreme Allied Commander for Allied forces in Europe during World War II. You walk into your office and your aide-de-camp says “Good ...

Massively has the story of an Anarchy Online player event. If, that is, by “player event” you mean “player gets a GM account and starts killing people a lot”. Please also keep in mind that a great many of these activities ...

Massively has the story of an Anarchy Online player event. If, that is, by “player event” you mean “player gets a GM account and starts killing people a lot”. Please also keep in mind that a great many of these activities ...

SOE’s kind of busy with launching DC Online and all, so could you just uninstall the beta manually yourself? And come in on Saturday? Yeah, that’d be great. (GoogleCache due to DCO beta forums being taken down.) I’m sure you all ...

For those of you just joining us: I love search terms (things people search for on Google that bring them to this site). It’s like a window into the collective gestalt. A very scary window. With teeth. Here: People With Long ...

…take away the keyboard. View original post here: The Most Radical Solution To Barrens Chat Ever Conceived…

I have to agree with W. James Au -- this is pretty big. Possibly gamechanging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxmyXxeczuE If you look at that and think to yourself “um, that sucks, why would I care?” — it’s not for you. It’s for the people who ...

Monkey in the middle of a metal detector Hat of the cousin of the tax collector Automatic sensors in the president’s skull Do you have yesterday’s time? What up, dog? – Was, Not Was 2011 will be an interesting year for MMOs. Without a World of Warcraft ...

The original post, from the Dragon Age 2 forums: Do we know if DA2 will have a better range of racial diversity? I was dissapointed that Dragon Age, a game that seem to use elves as an allegory for black ...

A yearly tradition I have is making wild predictions, and then noting how badly a job I did of it a year ago so that you can feel free to ignore what I did. Far be it for me to ...

Pic courtesy of NWN Second Life markets itself to the Facebook generation as… um… There are issues here. (Hat tip: New World Notes) Go here to see the original: The Small Cute Puppy Has Fallen So Far

Bringing Barrens chat back, uh huh Blizzard’s “WoW Chief Project Manager” (which I presume is like a producer, except with more words) J. Allen Brack is interviewed by the Guardian regarding some game release or another set to happen next week. And ...

Every time you ask Blizzard community reps about this leak, God kills a murloc baby. MMO Champion has what is probably the best analysis of this. Unsurprisingly, Activision Blizzard is in full license molestation mode. Note no sign of the long rumored ...

Eric Heimburg at Elder Game is pissed at SOE. And not for the usual “you broke my SWG” topic. Are you kidding me, SOE? You guys are a huge bunch of pricks. You patented my technique. I know you guys have a ...

…including message management for the TSA. Read more from the original source: MMOs Teach Us EVERYTHING

“How many MMOs have ever worked in the U. S. market? Pop quiz… Two. World of Warcraft and Everquest.” Strauss Zelnick, Take Two CEO, 2010. “We haven’t announced any MMOs. Competing in that market in the U.S. is a real risk. It ...

MGM finally pulls the Stargate license from Cheyenne Mountain after a protracted court battle “They took everything I owned and they took … besides my personal property they took my good name,” he said. “When I watched Iron Man, that was ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyMB19q7ms See the original post here: WoW Lore Is Very Important

Mmmyeah, if you could not come in ever again? That'd be super. Rumors and signs are running rampant that the yearly tradition of mass layoffs at EA are about to hit again. Earnings call scheduled for 11/2 — traditionally this is when ...

Champions Online goes free to play, goes class based, players explode. Read more from the original source: My Name’s Jack Emmert, And I’m With The Subscription Is Too Damn High Party

Hi, I’m Scott, this is my blog, and this is my semiannual political screed. Gentle readers who wish to avoid sullying their news of tractors and gaming drama with talk of the wider world are invited to move to the next ...

Farmville and other games by Zynga, LOLapps, and other big names in social gaming collect your personal information – and the personal information of everyone on your friends list – and then turn around and sells it to data enrichment ...

Matthew Weigel, of Dungeon Runners, [classified], The Old Republic, KingsIsle and his own blog, with basic information on coding online trade systems. (Yes, it’s basic, but how many games can *you* name that don’t support it?) Originally posted here: “Doveryai, No Proveryai”

Apparently 4Chan weighed in on the EALouse website, briefly deleting it and then replacing it with some dadaist commentary about blouses. It was quickly replaced, of course. Silly kids, to *really* take down a website you use lawyers. Read the original, in ...

To cut off the flood of emails, texts, IMs, and queries in the hall: * Yes, I saw it. * I have even less comment then Sanya does. * Suffice to say that is a time in my life that has passed and ...

The proper thing to type in the dialog is, in fact, "DIE DIE DIE I HATE YOU DIE DIE DIE" So evil you’ll wonder why someone hasn’t already invented it: CAPTCHAs that force you to type in ad slogans. Yes – this is, ...

Since I’m not doing anything for AGDC aside from driving random Europeans around strip malls, have a tractor. Go here to see the original: By Popular Request

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrdDNa5Wue8 The slides, which I completely failed at actually displaying at the time thanks to the video cable falling out of my iPad, are here. View original post here: Here You Can View On This Blog A Presentation About This Blog