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The supposed solution to the tedium of mob grinding was the implementation of huge numbers of quests. The best example of this, of course, is World of Warcraft. Every new zone or town has one or more “hubs” with merchants and quest givers. The quests then cause you to move about the zone doing this [...]

The video game industry netted over $20 billion dollars in 2008. It continues to expand into new markets and new platforms. The Netbook is the next logical platform for growth.
For detailed analysis, please read this article I wrote and then tell me what you think about the topic:
Netbooks Are the Next Gaming Platform

I’d really [...]

This is a really sore topic for me, as it is something that really pisses me off about how things are evolving in so many online communities. Everyone is trying to turn their site into a “Walled Garden” where you dare not link to any other site lest you be accused of spamming.
Windows Live and [...]

As you may recall, I wrote a review of Age of Conan a few months ago: Age of Conan is a Hot Mess. My review was extremely unfavorable. I have followed the game in the news since then, and while I have read about improvements nothing has really addressed the (imho) core flaws. Then I [...]

Things are going really well with the new Muckbeast. We are averaging about 600 unique visitors per day now, which is better than ever on Today. The downside of popularity is spam! We have started receiving a number of spam comments, so I decided to enable Akismet, which is an intelligent spam filter for comments.
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At the end of December, my wife’s PC finally died and mine was barely limping along. They were both over 4 years old. I have become disenchanted with pre-builts (read this about Alienware’s decline), so I decided I’d build them myself. I hadn’t done so for 15+ years so i was a little nervous about [...]

I came across this article today, and it was really refreshing to see something new and interesting being discussed: Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games. The article lists some games that have featured pregnancy, addresses some of the moral issues, and then discusses where games have gone horribly wrong to the point [...]

For any blogger, the quest for more traffic is never ending. Moving Muckbeast has made this quest even harder, as I’ve lost page rank, all sorts of links, etc. But one of the weirdest sources of traffic has been a link to an image in my Hellgate London post. Apparently, my link to a picture [...]

Milawe has written a great article that is a review of Campaign Cartographer 3. If you are looking for a top notch program for creating fantasy, sci-fi, or other types of maps, you definitely want to check this out.
“This review of Campaign Cartographer 3 shares how easily you can make fantasy or science fiction maps [...]

Those of you who visit Muckbeast via entrecard or its main domain name (http://www.muckbeast.com) have already noticed that things look very different. I am now self hosting the blog. At a later date, I will go into more detail as to WHY I made this decision, and what the upsides are for the blog. For [...]