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Tabula Rasa to Close

It is with regret that we must announce that Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009. Before we end the service, we’ll make Tabula Rasa servers free to play starting on January 10, 2009. We can assure you that through the next couple of months we’ll be doing some really fun things [...]

From One Turbine To Another

You may have already read Darren’s short post on the Monday night group’s decision to jump from DDO to Lord of the Rings Online. From his post: “Is DDO a bad game because we left? No…it isn’t. I think this is just a case of some of the more glaring flaws of the game just being [...]

Thoughts on Borean Tundra vs. Howling Fjord

I’m still not quite to 74 yet; I hit Monday, opened the closet marked ‘work’ and a hundred thousand pingpong balls flew out of the tiny room at me in a hilarious Lucy-esque display. So, been a bit busy. Still, I have many awesome things to say about Lich King. You can hear me say [...]

Up In the Conference Call

I’m just in a bit o’ this week’s Conference Call from GWJ; Rabbit and I tossed a few questions at Bethesda’s Pete Hines about storytelling. Watch the softball action! Episode 110 - November 19th, 2008 Wrath of The Witchlysium, Resistance 2, End War, Mirror’s Edge, Gears of War 2, An Interview With Bethesda’s Pete Hines, Your Emails [...]

MMOs Are Not Like Other Products

In a comment to my post yesterday about Warhammer, Snafzg said: “If you’re releasing a product you’re damned right I’m going to compare it to another established product in the market. If you launch something that doesn’t compare in terms of quality, why should people give you the benefit of the doubt, especially as paying [...]