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  • Valve: Portal

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    From Xboxyde: Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology. After watching the trailer…wow. This game looks awesome.…

  • Defense of the Ancients (DotA) AI

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    DotA is a great game with many game options. If you are new to this blessed game and wish to expand your knowledge and/or practice, your only real option is to play on Battle.net with human teammates and opponents due to the lack of Artificial Intelligence built in. If you suck, you’re bound to face…

  • New World of Warcraft Forums

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    Blizzard’s forum software has always sucked balls. It was about time that they re-code it and give it a face lift. Well, they have released their new forum Beta test for World of Warcraft, check it out! Features: New design New Avatars Most Valuable Poster (MVP) Status* A Search that works (their non-working search had…

  • Warcraft III: DotA Allstars (Defense of the Ancients)

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    I was one of the many gamers addicted to World of Warcraft a few months ago. I have recently kicked the habit and have headed back to my Blizzard roots (well, more like my Blizzard upper trunk/lower branches) and have dusted off my Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne cds. But its not to play Warcraft…

  • Spore, Sim-City/Civilization on Steroids

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    I hadn’t heard much about Spore until today. I’ve watched a video demonstrating the game and was floored. From the minds that brought us Sim City and The Sims, this game is bound to be pretty intense and feature rich with regards to game/player interaction. Here’s a quick run down: The game starts you out…

  • MMORPG Laws

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    My pal Casey over at MaisonBisson.com has made a follow up post to my MMORPG Cheating post. I figured it warranted me making another post rather than simply replying to his blog. He writes: Matt says my attempts to analogize online roleplaying games to more familiar contests like chess or automobile racing are “just silly.”…

  • MMORPG Cheating

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    My friend Casey over at MaisonBisson posted an article (Wide World of Video Games) where he shoots down the ideas of laws that are being built around MMORPGs and the reasons behind them. I don’t entirely agree with his statement: One argument is that these games occupy players time and cost money, so in-game theft…

  • World of Warcrack and the future of MMOGs

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    [[innerindex]] I began gaming in the early 90’s. Looking back at what gaming was then compared to what it is today causes me to do a double take. Things have changed so much so fast. Of particular note is the Online Gaming industry. What started out as geek-only text-based fantasy games has morphed into a…