{"id":491,"date":"2006-11-19T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T19:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/19\/sunday-shorts\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T19:02:59","slug":"sunday-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/19\/sunday-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Gamespot had screens of a new game called <em>Myth War<\/em>, I got my hopes up that it would be a revival or spin-off of the great Bungie fantasy wargame. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/rpg\/mythwar\/index.html\">Sadly, no<\/a>. It&#8217;s just another fantasy MMO. Wake me when they set an MMO in Moghul India.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/vgrc.ddstuff.com\/articles-474.html\">VGResource editorial<\/a> on how many gamers only use reviews as hooks to validate their own opinions, preconceptions or wishes has only one real surprise. Apparently there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Gerstmann\">Wikipedia entry on Gamespot&#8217;s Jeff Gerstmann<\/a>. And people care enough to vandalize it.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed <em>City Life<\/em> the first time around, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/citylifeworldedition\/index.html\">new &#8220;World&#8221; edition<\/a> coming out in a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Nine days till <em>Rise of the Witch King<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pjsattic.com\/corvus\/2006\/11\/november-round-table\/\">Gaming Round Table<\/a>, on the subject of &#8220;grammar&#8221; in games. I&#8217;ll have more to say about this once a certain review of mine is posted, since it will make more sense with some context.<\/p>\n<p>Still looking for a guest blogger for November. Any volunteers would be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Gamespot had screens of a new game called Myth War, I got my hopes up that it would be a revival or spin-off of the great Bungie fantasy wargame. Sadly, no. It&#8217;s just another fantasy MMO. Wake me when they set an MMO in Moghul India. This VGResource editorial on how many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-7V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}