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From The Archives:
A Star is Born
Remember the superhero MMO from 2009? Neither does anyone else. It was dumb. So dumb I was compelled to write this.
Dead Island
A stream-of-gameplay review of Dead Island. This game is a cavalcade of bugs and bad design choices.
The Loot Lottery
What makes the gameplay of Borderlands so addictive for some, and what does that have to do with slot machines?
Quakecon Keynote 2013 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
PC Gaming Golden Age
It's not a legend. It was real. There was a time before DLC. Before DRM. Before crappy ports. It was glorious.
This is probably my favourite panel
Blown up in very high definition you can clearly see John Rhys-Davies’ skull prosthesis. The skin tone and wrinkles don’t match in a straight line. Somebody in the upscale should’ve caught that.
(on further thought, just to clarify; I don’t mean TwentySided should have caught it, I mean when the movies were upscaled beyond the original release resolution it should have been caught before they put the Blu-rays out.)
Following a plot in an RPG campaign can be difficult, since you’re playing for a few hours periodically. Depending on schedules, that could be once a month or so.
Try reading the next chapter of a book once a month and see whether it’s easy to keep track.
It’s harder if you’re not really interested in the plot, and the names are long, strange to your ear and often start with the same letter. Oh, and the teller of the story is changing it on the fly to keep up as people in the audience drop out and others come in.
I think it’s fair to compare this to a storyteller, rather than the referee of an RPG campaign. The ref here is trying really hard not to let the players derail his plot.