Role-playing games (RPGs) have long been a bastion of fantasy escapism, providing players with immersive worlds built on medieval European traditions. These games offered heroic adventures, grand quests, and clearly …
The year 2024 A.D. was an important milestone in MMORPG History. EverQuest, the brainchild of Brad McQuaid and John Smedley had somehow survived for a quarter of a century. Over …
If Amazon Games plays their cards right, they could see their upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG dethrone Blizzard’s aging giant, World of Warcraft. WoW is showing its age, not …
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 …
Big claims require big evidence. In A.D. 2000: I invented the Smart Phone. I James Wilbur Sager III am the official Father of the Smartphone. In 2005 Apple came to …
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 …
Hello, guest author GoodNewsJim/CrazyJim here. I’m famous for #1 world in games more intellectually demanding than chess: Starcraft, Warcraft3 etc. I have more video game achievements than Faker, Slayers_Boxer, and …
