January 2011
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PC Gamer Awards Lord of the Rings Online “MMO of... →
Release the Balrog of Celebration!
PC Gamer came out with their annual “games of the year” list, and while the list had some fairly predictable – if well-deserved – winners…
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Letters to my Kids: What I think happens when we...
The world is a crazy place. Unexpected things happen all the time, and while I may plan to be around to have the Important Conversations with my kids, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Or today. Hell, I could choke to death on the ham sandwich I make for lunch. These things happen.
There are things I want my kids to understand about me — what I think about the Big Questions like life and...
Burning Wheel, in Review →
With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year (I’m looking at you, NaNoWriMo), the automatic assumption is that no one will get…
World of Tanks sets World Record →
MMO game metrics are tricky beasts, and pretty much any marketing group worth it’s weight in hair gel will be able to come up with some kind of number that sounds impressive to
(Also,…
CardMon Hero enters second round of Beta Testing →
CardMon Hero is a free-to-play MMO in which players can create, discover, recruit and summon “Mercenaries” to do battle using a deck of cards, although unlike some other card-dueling MMOs,…
Wizard101 takes home Reader’s Choice Best MMO of... →
Although print magazines may not make much of an impression in my daily life (the only time I touch one is when I carry my wife’s Entertainment Weekly to the recycling bin), there’s no denying the…
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What's up, January 2011 edition
Things have been fairly quiet here on my home-blog, as it were, but nothing’s been very quiet for me, so I figured I’d document my current areas of activity, just so people know.
Those of you who see what I see on Twitter and in GReader might be aware that I’m writing stuff for MMO Reporter now. It’s a newish gig, but a topic I enjoy, and I’m learning a lot about...