Games and the Gaming Business

Finding Peace With Massively Single Player Games

Written by Liore May 04, 2012 // 6 Comments

In the wake of last week’s beta there has been a lot of interesting criticism being produced about Guild Wars 2. Milady wrote about her concerns that the event system in GW2 is cooporative, but not particularly social. Azuriel published a piece arguing that Guild Wars 2 in fact encompasses many of the elements that …

05.04.2012 // 6 Comments // Permalink

Guild Wars 2 Beta: what to expect

Written by Liore April 27, 2012 // 1 Comment

The Cat Context Podcast is on iTunes! If you enjoyed it, please consider rating us 5-stars. — I may be a skeptical bastard, but I’m enjoying the boundless enthusiasm in my feed reader this morning. Right now is probably as good as Guild Wars 2 will ever get — as I write this we’re 3 …

04.27.2012 // 1 Comment // Permalink

A Dumb Article About Smart Games

Written by Liore April 25, 2012 // 4 Comments

Earlier today The Brainy Gamer took a well-placed swing at an insufferable article in The Atlantic Monthly with the insufferable Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid. The article starts out with a sideways insult (“video games are juvenile, silly, and intellectually lazy”) and doesn’t get much better. One of my pet peeves is anti-intellectualism, and I’ve …

04.25.2012 // 4 Comments // Permalink

Diablo III and TERA Betas: a weekend of clicking

Written by Liore April 23, 2012 // 3 Comments

It is beta-testing-palooza right now for MMO/online fans, with Diablo III and TERA this weekend, Guild Wars 2 next weekend, and The Secret World the weekend after that. Whether a beta test is actually a paid commodity or a preview weekend or a chance to identify bugs in the code, I can’t resist a good …

04.23.2012 // 3 Comments // Permalink

Diablo III Open Beta Screenshots

Written by Liore April 21, 2012 // Leave a comment

Oh Blizzard, you devious bastards. This weekend’s open beta for Diablo III only has 13 levels, but that was enough to remind me of the joys of click spamming and loot gathering. As a casual player of D2, I’m definitely not disappointed. Thus far I’ve played a monk and a witch doctor, and of the …

04.21.2012 // Leave a comment // Permalink

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