Tag Archives: gaming

the auction house is the game

Free game idea I’ll probably never implement, and would hate to maintain if I ever did: Yendor’s Other World (or, YoW) – a cross between IdleRPG / ProgressQuest and the Auction Houses from World of Warcraft. The market is the game, the roleplaying is just the background. Characters quest while you’re busy in the [...]

clubhouse games FTW on nintendo ds

I’m really digging the Nintendo DS thing – especially this new game I got for my birthday last week called Clubhouse Games. It’s a pretty cheap buy, but comes loaded with about 40 classic board, bar, and card games. It also seems like they’ve got all the bases covered with 1-cart local multiplayer; [...]

i’m in the nintendo ds homebrew club now

Passscard is the perfect flash card boot-up solution for DS LITE & NDS . It is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3, Neo, SC & G6 etc. Source: Divineo.com – Product Information I’ve just received a Passcard 3 in the mail. Nintendo DS homebrew, here I come! I’m particularly excited about NitroTracker [...]

When virtual banks fail, seek virtual laws

Virtual acts increasingly have offline consequences–at least in those worlds with permeable borders. I would not like to be planning the next masive EVE Onine scam, or the one after it, or the one after that. For now the comforting strains of “it’s just a game” are paying, but some day, some day soon, the [...]

No more Second Life

Over the past few months or so, I’ve given Second Life about 6 hours of my primary life. At first, between all the rapidly aging machines I own personally, I didn’t have a single one that did the place justice. Now though, I’ve got a work machine with enough horsepower to [...]

Video Games Live^WDead

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Video Games Live will not be playing any of the previously scheduled shows, with the exception of Seattle and Vancouver on October 29 and October 30. Furthermore, plans are being made for additional shows in specific markets across North America for 2006. Source: Video Games Live | www.videogameslive.com Bastards. I [...]

West of House

The next documentary I am working on is about Text Adventures, or Interactive Fiction. It is called “Get Lamp”. Source: ASCII by Jason Scott: There is a Shiny Brass Lamp nearby Sweet merciful crap! Man, aren’t I smack-dab in the middle of Jason Scott’s target demographic? I snatched up his BBS Documentary with the quickness, [...]

Yak shaving, book pimping, and feed spooling

Well, of course I’ve lapsed pretty much right back into silence after having shaken this place up and having announced the arrival of the book. The culprit, of course, is yak shaving. Again. True, life itself has been pretty busy lately. The days are booked, the weekends have been filling up–and in spare [...]