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I wrote this article back in September of 2008: Nintendo Wii Motion Plus: What Is It, When Will It Be released, and When Will We Get It? The article has generated more traffic than anything else I’ve written on Bright Hub. It gets at least 1,000 views a month, sometimes 3,000+. Clearly a lot of [...]

One of my writers put together a great article on this topic. It includes some lessons I had to learn the hard way, through much discomfort and unhappiness.
A Parent’s Guide to Balancing Family and Work Responsibilities with MMO Gaming
Any other parents out there have their own tips, horror stories, or experiences to share?

My wife wrote an excellent guide to healing a few weeks ago and I forgot to bring it up for discussion! She plays the healer type character on every MMO or RPG we play. Over the years, she has definitely become a highly skilled expert on the subject (and play) of healers.
Check out her article: [...]

Regular readers here know I am a huge fan of mini-games in MMOs. I think MMOs utterly fail to make appropriate use of this type of entertainment. One notable exception is fishing. Fishing is a very common feature in MMOs, and it tends to be extremely popular.
In Threshold RPG, fishing is an extremely popular activity [...]

Raph Koster wrote an incredibly interesting and thought provoking blog post here: The perfect geek age?

Was being born in 1971 the perfect time to be born a geek?

Since Threshold has been out for over 13 years, it is pretty rare that we are lucky enough to score a review. We were recently reviewed by one of the writers at Bright Hub and it was a great review! Hooray! Check out the review:
Threshold RPG: Text-Based MMORPG Review

I read this story with horror but without surprise.
Dad is accused of beating 6-year-old for poor gaming skills
“The victim’s mother told police Taulbee became upset when the boy didn’t play a video game well,” the story says.
But the story never reported what game the boy was playing.
Brian Gregg of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Department of [...]