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Multiplayer GTAIV; The Most MMO Fun To Be Found In A Non-MMO.

And the beating heart inside the Statue of Liberty? Easter egg win.

"Everything Is Going To Be A-OK" Client Still In Production

The WarCry Newtwork has a news update entitled "Age of Conan: Polish Version Coming in Late 08".

Reading the update isn't nearly as interesting as suggested by that headline when you find out they're talking about the country.

That's A Story For The Ladies Bowls Club Meeting

Overshadowed by that other lawsuit (where's your media hype machine now, Second Life?), a decision has been reached in Leatherwood vs Eros LLC, AKA the "Secretly Stolen Cyber-Sex (And Scantily Clad!) Script" case.

In the end, Robert Leatherwood was hit by the full weight of the law which resulted in serious ramifications that amounted to, well, nothing really.

A US federal judge accepted a settlement in the case last week that doesn't involve money or an admission of wrongdoing from Leatherwood.

Reached at his grandmother's home...

I think he's been punished enough.

Today's Lesson From EQ2Flames is...

When burning a bridge, you may as well scorch earth the river banks as well.

This is a screenshot of a PM from Aeralik to his guild leader on Blackburrow. The text of the screenshot is a bug report submitted to SOE by a player. The fourth paragraph describes how to exploit game mechanics to kill Druushk, the gateway mob to getting mythical epics from all the mobs in the 2nd and 3rd wings of VP. In the PM, Aeralik is communicating the PM to his guild leader, and telling him it is ok for his guild to use so they can get their mythicals.

Make that two bridges.

I find what LFG and Niber did to be distasteful. I believe that a private message should be just that. It shouldn't be opened by someone who is not the intended receiver. It should not be posted. It should be private.

Ah, Easter. Such a sharing time of the year. Epics, anyone?

My Surreal Moment Of The Day

Writing this post on a supped up computer with a high-speed internet connection surrounded by 50 other people basking in the glow of monitors as they play, chat and Facebook 150 meters from the epitome of the Soviet Union; the Kremlin and Lenin's body.

P.S. To any MMO publisher not currently splashing around in the Russian market, or not yet thinking of wading in with their swimmers pulled up high as they exclaim "Oooh! It's so cold!" with each step; Do it.

Some companies already have the right idea, but with the growing economy now really starting to change the social demographics as well as the technological capabilities, the Russian market is set to go off soon. The market is especially ripe for a casual/social orientated MMO. Or so a little Babushka tells me.

None of this is really earth-shattering, but it is certainly something else to see it from this side of the border.

Scenes from a street in Liuzhou, Guangxi province

Numerous World of WarCraft art pieces appear on the shop name signs for various PC Baangs.

Mickey Mouse appears on even more shop doors in order to help welcome the Year of the Rat.

Trademark lawyers are mugged around the corner.

Oh, and Scott; your website appears to be banned in China.

Scenes from a PC Baang in Lang Son, 20 minutes from the Vietnam/China border

Audition and Counter-Strike 1.6 fill 95% of the screens. The other 5% belongs to MSN Messenger.

Advertisements for MMOs line all four walls, but no one is playing them.

Most of the attention in the room has now turned to the stupid foreigner fighting with his keyboard as he writes this post.

Well, that didn't go quite according to plan

I had been meaning to create a few more videos/posts in recent days (and weeks), but as Cthulhu would have it I am currently on the other side of the world from my normal habitat in a place where the Internet does not travel via tubes, but via hitch-hiking.

Updates to come as they can. In the meanwhile, stay cool and you spammers keep off my front lawn.

"Spacetime Studios Making Layoffs?", Or "The Power Of Google-Fu"

From my Sitemeter statistics:

Update (1 minute later): Someone else just used the same search term.

Update again: Layoffs and the cancellation of Spacetime Studios' current project by publisher NCSoft have been confirmed by Brandon Reinhart.

Something I Made On New Year's Day

tags: resolutions, gnome ass, haven't slept, mouth icky