Sorry for the silence for the last few days. I’ve been doing some business stuff that took me a little out of my way. Normal blogging will resume momentarily.
Entries from January 24th, 2007
Best selling PC games of 2006
January 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Industry
NPD has released sales info on the top ten titles for last year. They are: 1. World of Warcraft 2. The Sims 2 3. The Sims 2 Open for Business Expansion 4. Star Wars: Empire at War 5. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion 6. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 7. Age of Empires III 8. The […]
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The Persistent RTS
January 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · MMO, RTS
Wahoo Studios thinks it has the formula for the elusive real time strategy persistent world. (Read Joh Callaham’s interview with Jason Faller on Firing Squad.) No word about the game, dubbed Saga, on the company site, though. The interview covers the usual basic bullet point stuff – factions, units, what “persistent” means…what’s not clear is […]
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Neverwinter Nights 2
January 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Review, RPGs, StrZone/XtrGamer
You can find my NWN 2 review here at Xtreme Gamer. Though strategy and wargames are my bread and butter (well, air and water) I like a good RPG and Neverwinter Nights 2 is a good RPG. The review reads really negative because as I was writing it I was annoyed by a lot of […]
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The Cultural Divide
January 16th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Me, MMO
A year ago, I wrote about how everyone’s love of Oblivion was leaving me out in the cold. A hot, new title that became the game de jour for weeks. I eventually addressed that and found that they were mostly right – love it or hate it, Oblivion is a game worth talking about. (I […]
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Gamer’s Bookshelf: Guns, Germs and Steel
January 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Gamer's Bookshelf
Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel sets out to answer a single question and finds a single answer. Q: Why did the European powers have such an historical advantage over the world they dominated? A: Geography. Sure, the book is more complicated than this, but not much. The east-west movement of crops […]
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