Author: Wolfshead
For almost 20 years, I have been writing articles about MMORPG design. There is one particular intellectual property that I’m very much interested in: EverQuest. Released in 1999, EQ was …
Hell has frozen over it seems. After 8 years of stealth development, Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios has finally released the name of its upcoming video game for the PC. It …
For the past 30 years, the notion of representation has been incrementally injected into the cultural bloodstream. Even though nobody ever voted for representation ideology, it has crept into all …
Game development has devolved into a brutal zero-sum battle for the only resource that truly matters: time. Forget the astronomical revenue figures paraded around by industry execs as if they …
If you wait long enough, a bad penny turns up. I just learned that Steve “Moorgard” Danuser has completed time off from working on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and taken …
In the digital age, where the battleground of ideas often takes the form of tweets and viral posts, Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, has once again thrown down the …
It’s a hobby horse of mine, to occasionally speak truth to power and call out pompous people on X. Professional Canadian Catholic Kennedy Hall recently decided to fat-shame Americans after …
The nonsensical phrase body type has replaced gender and sex designation in many popular RPGs in the past few years. This is a top-down initiative that has been implemented to …
One of the most important speeches ever given about the future of humanity was made by Laura Aboli at the Better Way Conference in 2023. Her speech, “Transhumanism: The End …
With the recent publication of Jason Schreir’s book Play Nice: The Rise and Fall of Blizzard, the topic of the Irvine studio’s demise is being hotly debated. I am reading …
A few weeks ago, my wife and I traveled to Stateline and South Lake Taho, a snow-kissed resort town straddling the California-Nevada border. We weren’t here for the slopes, though. …
There is no doubt in my mind that Blizzard Entertainment has been infiltrated by Satanists. Just last week, an in-game trailer of the Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred expansion was …
