Jan 6
Crime, Grinding, Awards
- Just announced – a modern day online game called CrimeCraft, built in the Unreal Engine 3. No details on whether it’s going to be massive per se, but 1.) online and 2.) modern day. Yay! MMOG devs might want to keep a weather eye on this.
- Gamers With Jobs (one of my absolute favorite commentary sites) has a great little piece on grinding on a game. Not the ‘grind’ MMOG players think of; really more of the obsession that gamers get when a great game puts its claws into you. “This unrelenting passion for a single game, this slave-mind, is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing for the relentless ecstasy of my mania, and a curse for there might as well be no other game in the world. I am a thrall.”
- MMORPG.com’s reader awards were put up last week … otherwise known as the EVE show. I think it says a lot about the readers of the site that they were so freaked about CCP’s game. Whether you consider that ridiculous or not, I simply can’t believe so many people would prefer ‘nothing’ for the Best New Game award over the tremendous Guild Wars expansions. MMORPG.com readers are, apparently, tasteless idiots.
