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Dec

Capsuleer School of Hard Knocks

Posted by Carbon  Published in How-To, Links, Protocol

EVE online carries a certain reputation among the general gaming populace for having a notoriously unfriendly learning curve and being frankly quite boring. I can’t dispute that EVE has it’s boring points as I have been guilty of playing in windowed mode so that I could surf the internet or do other unrelated activities while [...]

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Tags: Eve Online, games, Links, MMOs, play, stories

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10

Dec

Organ Trail

Posted by Anouska  Published in Links, Overheard

If anyone is like me, and needs a break from studying during the exam period, here is something to fill the void. A friend showed it to me, and its quite addicting. It’s called Organ Trail, from the guys at hatsproduction.com. The games humour filled description is; “Organ Trail was an edutainment game developed in [...]

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Tags: Free, games, humour, Links, play

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8

Dec

MMO Stereotypes – fact or fiction? Part 2

Posted by Ed  Published in Links, Overheard, Pseudonyms, Stereotypes

In the last blog entry I talked about stereotypes and how they are affecting the mindset of MMO players. Today I am going to focus on what some of these stereotypes are and whether they are fact or fictional. Ask someone who’s never played a massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) what they think [...]

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Tags: Links, mmo, mmorpgs, myths, Stereotypes

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22

Nov

Ten Reasons Why Second Life is Better than World of Warcraft

Posted by LadyD  Published in Links, Uncategorized

Found this blog during my virtual travels and thought it would generate some interesting debate considering Second Life and WoW really do represent the polar opposites of virtual worlds. http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/rants-and-ramblings/ten-reasons-why-second-life-is-better-than-world-of-warcraft/

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Tags: Links, Second Life, virtual worlds, World of Warcraft

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7

Oct

Just How Many MMO’s Are There?

Posted by LadyD  Published in Links

It’s a question I’m sure we’ve all been wording since the beginning, just how many MMO’s are out there. I think it’s also safe to say that there is no way that we will ever know for sure. But how close can we get? I was curious so I did what any self respecting person [...]

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Tags: Links, MMOs

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