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Old Republic Has More Subscribers Than You Do (Unless Your Name Is Bobby Kotick)

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It’s official: per CFO Eric Brown, during an earnings conference call, SWTOR is making a lot of money, with 1.7m subscribers (which Brown went to an unusual effort to quantify correctly as a mix of paying customers and customers with … Continue reading →

Finally, You Will Get Your Chance To Kill Fippy Darkpaw

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Everquest 1 going free-to-play. With the announcement, the frozen-in-amber separate EQMac server is also going away, which disappointed the people who preferred EQ frozen in amber.    

Rumor: WH40K MMO Cancelled, THQ Prepares For Liquidation Sale

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Nothing more than rumor at this point. Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheKevinDent/status/158454172239409152 Kotaku detailing above leak: http://kotaku.com/5876253/thq-wipes-out-games-planned-for-2014-to-ready-itself-for-sale-says-insider The Vigil-developed THQ-published MMO has had a very long and by all accounts troubled development history but was closing in on eventual release. However it’s rapidly becoming clear … Continue reading →

Signs Your Game May Be Popular, #4

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A Congressman stops by to post in your official forums

The Quarter To Three Refugee Camp

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tl;dr: If you’re looking for The Banned Of Lum the Mad Tom Chick forum it’s over here. Quarter to Three is a forum I have posted on quite often over the past decade (yes, that long). It’s a forum loosely … Continue reading →

My Utterly Predictable Top Ten Games Of 2011 List

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10: Catherine Catherine was a game whose core gameplay was awful (essentially a very twiddly platform game). And you didn’t care because the game itself was so compelling. Japan is a society that takes adult games seriously (and by that … Continue reading →

My Life With The Jedi Kill Kult

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It was on an unnamed battle station, set up by Republic spies, where I fell from grace. You see, up until that point, I had seen myself as an honorable man. Of course there was chaos and atrocity all around, … Continue reading →

Blizzard Announces RealID 2.0: What We Should Have Done The First Time

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Welcome to BattleTags, otherwise known as “how every other unified IM service works”. A BattleTag is a unified, player-chosen nickname that will identify you across all of Battle.net – in Blizzard Entertainment games, on our websites, and in our community … Continue reading →

Tools Are Cool

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(This is a post in response to Jon Jones, smArtist for hire’s technolusty blog post from yesterday.) Hi, I’m Scott, I’m a technoweenie. I try to keep everything pretty simple… my primary “work” machine is my Macbook Pro. I’ve used … Continue reading →

Mark Pincus Grateful For Continued Existence Of Bobby Kotick

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Bobby Kotick shows the class, grace and market acumen for which he is so justly renowned, when commenting on an imminent competitor for his corporation’s cash cow: “We’ve been in business with Lucas for a long time and the economics … Continue reading →