According to the New York Times, Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft is on pace to generate over $1 billion in revenue this year. The massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game (MMORPG) has over seven million paying subscribers and is the first video game to reach such a large market in the history of Internet gaming. Just [...]
I’ve been bitten by the Blizzard bug again. This time it’s the new World of Warcraft saga, a huge four-CD massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short. The predecessor, Warcraft III, never gelled with me, mainly due to its complexity and less-than-interesting playing, but WoW is a fun, engaging, and addictive timewaster.
Installation is [...]
Despite NeoPet’s poor privacy and spam policy for older children and adults, I must admit that I’m hooked! I can understand why children and adults of both sexes enjoy it — it’s got the fantasy aspect of faeries and mystic creatures, the feeding and taking care aspects similar to the long forgotten electronic gigapets, the [...]
Man, Empire Earth cheats!
I played a long game today, a stress-relief from life’s rigors. Seven teamed-up hard computers on large islands on a medium-size map, all against me, starting in Prehistoric and ending in Imperial, my favorite configuration. Reasonably challenging, yet a victorious outcome is always certain.
Now, I already knew the computers cheat on a [...]
By all rights, I should have lost the game of StarCraft I played this morning, a replay of which I saved (requires the Brood War extension to view). I started in the southwest corner, and within five minutes had two trenches dug at what I considered to be the most likely points of initial attack. [...]
Looks like Survivor VI is taking applications until July 3rd. While I still love the game (although it’s been replaced by Amazing Race as my favorite show), I just don’t think I’m up for it as much as I used to be.
Oh, sure, I’d love the experience, the new (possible) friendships, the potential prize money, [...]
It has long been said that people are smart, but crowds are stupid. That definitely applies to football (as in soccer) fans.
Today, after the Japanese scored a goal against the Russians in the World Cup finals, riots involving as many as 8,000 people broke out in central Moscow near the Kremlin. One man died of [...]
I am “The Chosen One” — at least that’s what my fortune cookie said last night. But, where’s the fortune?
