Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Looks like I'm headed to Rift

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 I got this helpful message* from whoever is running Rift these days: Apparently I have until September 11 to dowload the client and figure ...
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Friday, July 3, 2026

On the end of PlayStation disks

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Sony recently announced that they are going to cease all production of physical disks for the PS5 in 2028 .  Given that they are a market le...
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Thursday, June 4, 2026

On MMO stickiness and (happily) living in the past

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The PC that I am typing this on is quite capable of playing modern games.  It cost a lot more than I would ever spend on one strictly for ho...
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Thursday, May 21, 2026

The State of Gaming in 2026

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  Via slashdot , Microsoft has hired a really influential analyist Mathew Ball (who I had never head of personally*) to get their X-Box divi...
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Friday, January 30, 2026

Project Genie: Make your own world with a prompt?

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Via slashdot , this is the first time I have heard of Google's  project Genie .  Apparently it will let you create an interactive world ...
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Monday, December 15, 2025

It's a Christmas Miracle! UI Scaling comes to LoTRO

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Just noticed this on my normal daily Reddit check in.  UI scaling is finally coming to Lord of the RIngs Online, and is already up on the te...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Are MMORPGs an evolutionary dead end? What is an evolutionary dead end anyway, and how to torture an analogy (part II)

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  This is part two of a post I put up yesterday .  I orginally put up both parts at once, but after sleeping on it I decided to break it up....