As I’ve already mentioned, the use of scanning probes to tri-, quad-, or quintangulate on various cosmic phenomena is a
Life in a Wormhole: Don’t Shoot the Good Guys #eveonline
The formidable weaponry of our fully armed and operational battle station has been brought to bear on a hapless intruder
Life in a Wormhole: If you’re going to be a Criminal, be a Smart Criminal #eveonline
Over emails the next day, CB points out that instead of a floating tower in space with guns, e-warfare modules,
Life in a Wormhole: The Moving-day Hangover
It’s one of those days you remember from college; everyone’s moving a bit slowly, trying to make as little noise
Life in a Wormhole: … if it is possible to avoid hitting. #eveonline
I drafted my evemail, aiming for a mix of “we’re all just trying to get along” and “we have no
Life in a Wormhole: What do you mean, “Neighbors?”
There was a moment of stunned disbelief following CB’s question. I hit d-scan several times on several characters and got
Life in a Wormhole: Time to Get Lost
Gor has advocated for starting the trip further into the evening, so as to avoid the prime hours of activity
Life in a Wormhole: The Adventure Begins… with shopping.
A flurry of communications followed my initial email about the empty wormhole. Questions. Queries. Calculations. A whoooole lot of calculations.
“My name is John Crichton…”
I haven’t been compelled to write about the sorts of things going on with my time in-game with EVE up
EVE Online: Crafting. In. Spaaaaaace.
“A million and a half? Are you joking?” Wyl glanced over his shoulder at his corpmate, who sat across the room,
PLEX for Good: EVE Players Donate In-game Funds to Real-world Disaster Relief
The economy of EVE Online is a strange one — possibly unique, in that the value of the game’s currency
Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple — “Swallowed Whole”
Despite crazy schedules and a newborn to deal with, Chris and Tim and I managed to get together last night
Eve Online: The Mystery and Allure of the Alt
I experienced a bit of serendipity last night on the EVE Online website. I had reset my settings for Aura
Sci-fi MMO Vendetta Online coming to Android Tablet PCs (and phones?)
Independent game developer Guild Software Inc has launched an Android version of Vendetta Online, giving early adopters and Android fanbois the chance
Doctor Who MMO? FanTAStic!
I’m a relative latecomer to Doctor Who fandom (joining the throng during the Eccelston reboot of the franchise), but that
EVE Online: Missions, Agents, and earning Faction Love
The most striking thing about EVE Online is the way in which the game is not like its digital brethren.
Parallel Kingdom: How Did I Not Know About This?
“I found a cool little game for the phone,” I told my wife on Friday. “Yeah?” She replied. She’s a
Four Years Later: A Newbie’s Return to EVE Online
A few months ago, a couple of my kinmates on Lord of the Rings Online – one of them, our
Dude, stop calling it “Wife Aggro”.
“Hang on a sec, guys,” I read in the group chat window, “I’ve got Wife Aggro.” I’ve read this phrase
Burning Wheel, in Review
With holiday schedules, an incoming bearcub, and all the other insanity that seems to surround the end of the year
Are Virtual Worlds Part of the Cause of our Real-world Recessions?
That’s the question asked in a recent article on Terra Nova, which offers some (very solid) arguments for the idea
International "Change Your Account Password" Day
Two days ago, hackers gained access to the servers at Gawker Media and, with it, access to the account information
The Play’s the Thing: A New Holiday Acting Event for LotRO Thespians
Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online has popped to the top of MMO news many times, most recently due to
A long time coming.
Back in 2006, I wrote this short post: You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up
The Library of Worlds, Part One
[Full disclosure: about 80% of this was designed by Alexander Newman for 10.10.10. He was a great helped while I
Burning Wheel (finally)
I got a copy of The Burning Wheel… hmm. My first mention of it on the blog was early 2004,
Finding the fun in Star Wars again
Jeffs Gameblog: Episode IV: What we know, what we don’t know. Some good thinking on the original Star Wars movie.
“Is it a ‘supers or ‘comics’ game?”
Gerald (@Linnaeus on Twitter) put together a really good post on the differences between the different games out there that
Wasting time playing DnD
No, I’m not saying that playing DnD is a waste of my time, settle down. Breathe. I ran into a
Brain Damage
Randy’s running this low-powered supers-in-Gotham thing. Interesting background. Interesting atmosphere. Running it with Mutants and Masterminds, which is a 3.x