In Everquest 2, the latest patch news indicates that the Koada’Dal language primer will now be readily available for Freeport citizens. Considering how easy it was for Kelethin and Qeynos citizens to learn the language, this levels the playing field for evil characters looking to learn the language of the high elves. What’s the big deal? [...]
Archive for March, 2007
A few days ago, Kathy Sierra made a great post on the Creating Passionate Users blog called “What tail is wagging the ‘user happiness’ dog?”. I was reading this article for my primary profession, and started realizing the same basic ideas could apply fairly easily to game designs (or really, any project that involves customers/end [...]
Want to work for Sony Online Entertaiment? Here’s the San Diego jobs I’ve managed to parse from Monster.com’s listings: Senior Oracle DBA- Contract Senior Oracle Database Developer Software QA Engineer- TEMP Customer Service – Game Master Senior UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator Senior Java Developer- PS3 I was checking the listings actually to try to find out [...]
Per Reuters: “Sony Corp. will unveil Wednesday “Home,” an online network for its new PlayStation 3, which supports streaming video and advertising and will host virtual characters in common areas and private rooms.” What’s astounding to me is that Kotaku was dead on when they posted rumors of this announcement last week. In fact, it would certainly [...]
As reported by the AP: BEIJING, China (AP) — China will not allow any new Internet cafes to open this year, state media reported on Tuesday. Xinhua News Agency said 14 government departments, including the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information Industry, had issued a notice saying that “in 2007, local governments must [...]
As Ryan Shwayder announced over at Nerfbat, Green Monster Games is no more. In its stead, there is now only 38 Studios.
How Close is Too Close? …or How I Came To Love Kotaku.
Posted: March 6, 2007 by Kendricke in Gaming Sites, The Gaming IndustryI’ve been mulling this idea ever since returning from Sony’s San Diego Summit. It was a three day romp of media hype and interaction between SOE’s PR and players, casual bloggers, and news site admins. Shortly after returning home from sunny southern California, I started scrutinizing the event with a bit more hind sight. I started [...]
I’ve decided to spend a little time here and there mentioning some of the sites I visit on a regular basis in an attempt to drive what little traffic I can in their directions. So, to start with… I met these guys at the recent San Diego Summit who I spent a fair amount of [...]
It was only a matter of time. SOE announced this week that come April 1, the price for a Station Access account is increasing to $29.99 from the current $24.99 model. This comes less than a year since the last increase, which increased the price from $21.99. Now, the unofficial (i.e. – SOE didn’t come [...]
