Company-sanctioned RMT hits single-player games
As is all over the gaming news, you can now acquire armor for your horse in Oblivion for Xbox 360.
It’ll just cost you real money.
Game talk
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.
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Harbingers
Games are about to become a lot less relevant to the future of virtual worlds.
That’s where Electric Sheep comes in. The company, technically based in Washington D.C. but operating more often than not in the virtual world, has been booking six-figure deals from members of the Fortune 500 who want to engage their customers/communities… employees can find themselves hired by a client to customize an island, or what in “Second Life” is called a “sim”–a 16-acre piece of land that users can buy and do with what they like.
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Are MUDs and MMORPGs the same thing?
This always comes up, and I often seem to be on the opposite side of the argument from many players. I’ve usually found that those who have worked on the implementation side of both tend to feel that they are the same thing, but that thsoe who haven’t see them as somehow categorically different.
So here’s my stab at explaining why I think both are really the same thing; in many ways, there are far larger differences between certain kinds of text muds than there are between graphical and text-based games.
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Game Diagrams
Stéphane Bura has picked up the ball and run with it! Check out his Game Diagrams based on the grammar I proposed.
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Senate Game Hearing Files
Worth reading over, if you enjoy your hobby: Senate Game Hearing Files.