July 2006 Entries
Checking the URLs very carefully this time:
Next Generation: E3 Finished as Big Exhibs Pull Support
Ars Technica: E3 game trade show not cancelled, but will be downsized
(via Broken Toys & Slashdot)
Seems like the high point of the gaming industry calendar is starting to wobble a bit, with a number of the bigger names deciding not to bother next year. It's hard to tell what the real picture is there, amid the somewhat purile journo pissing contest, but regardless of who you believe, next years's E3 is likely to be a much more low-key affair than we're used to hearing about.
Now, I...
And so I wandered the Wilderness, the blasted dry lands of My Own Hard Disk. Entering my second month without internet access, and well past the longest period I’ve gone without since sometime back in 1999, I looked for substitutes. Offline gaming is all very well, and a good way to pass the time, but there is something indefinable about the MMO that draws at me. So I started looking into emulators again.
Pretty much every MMO out there has at least one half-arsed emulator project on the go, unrealistically optimistic attempts to create an alternative server application to power the...
Heh...here's one for the 'What Took You So Long' File:
CNN.com: SOE President files restraining order against customer (Via Virgin Worlds)
I'm suprised we'd not seen something like this before, given the dangerously unstable and obsessive nature of many of our bretheren. In this case though, I doubt the guy is dangerous, merely being ironic to the point of self-destructive irritation. We at Van Hemlock do not, of course, condone hunting game devs and producers down in the Real World and leaping on them naked, yelling "Give me your perfect seed!" - that kind of thing should be left to...
Good grief…how long was I out? Did I say a couple of weeks? I meant, of course, a couple of months. What should have been a simple enough job, of getting my internets moved to my new flat, swiftly developed into a nightmarish exercise in trying to beat bureaucracy at it’s own game, with it’s own tools, in a protracted series of phone calls to my ISP, British Telecom Customer Service, British Telecom Wholesale Division, OFCOM – the UK Telecoms Regulatory Authority, and basically anyone else who would listen, and the whole thing quickly degenerated into a farce not unlike...