This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
The Virtual Citizenship Association appears to be a recently founded group to promulgate rights for virtual world users. There isn’t a rights document per se up there yet, but it does start out by bluntly declaring that “living in a virtual world gives us the status of citizen there,” which under strict definitions seems a bit overreaching.
Their social contract includes the following points:
Earth Eternal is the new MMO from Iron Realms, which of course runs Achaea and other text-based games. The graphics look charming and given their experience, I expect the gameplay to be pretty solid — and like their other games, it’s going to be free to play, with upsells for in-game items. Looks like quite a competitor to Runescape, in that case. Worth checking out.
I love the fact that this is a FAQ:
So many MMOs run out of money before release. Will you?
No. We’re completely funded, to the point where we can release and then operate for months with absolutely no revenue if need be. Earth Eternal will be released, period.
Looks like Nyko is making an adapter for old controllers to the PS3. Hopefully it will work for Guitar Hero guitars — since I have four of the damn things, and expect to get 2 more for the 360!
And I haven’t tried, but I presume old dance mats also don’t work on the PS3 since they lack the PS3 button? So useful for that too, maybe.
Once this show up, I’ll be able to move the PS2 out of the room altogether, since I have yet to bump intoany games, be they PS2 or PS1, that don’t work on the PS3… except for FFXI, that is, which is on the hard drive. I don’t play it anymore, so that’s no big worry for me…
I am shamelessly reprinting a bunch of stuff from Clickable Culture’s post on this because, well, I love stats.
- 69% of Gen Nexters say new technologies make it easier to make new friends, compared to 53% of Gen Xers.
- 86% of Gen Nexters are at least occasional internet users, compared to 91% of Gen Xers, 73% of Baby Boomers, and 46% of Seniors.
- 51% of Gen Nexters say they sent or received an instant message in the past 24 hours, compared to 22% of Gen Xers.
- 54% of Gen Nexters have used a major social networking site such as MySpace, 38% say they use it once a day, 38% say they use it once a week. 44% have created a social site profile.
- 49% of Gen Nexters say they play console-based videogames, compared to 35% of Gen Xers, 13% of Baby Boomers, and 3% of Seniors.
- 36% of Gen Nexters say they’ve played videogames in the past 7 days (of that 36%, 51% were males).
You may have seen this in the trackbacks already, but it looks like USC, one of the sponsors of Slamdance, is pulling out over the SCMRPG issue as well.
This certainly is snowballing.
