Muckbeast

The arguments and analysis from this article will surely generate significant agreement and disagreement. I must admit that I found the points well made and well argued.
Why World of Warcraft is Badly Designed
I particularly agree with the sections on Quest Grinding (surprise, surprise), Time over Skill, terrible class balance, poor UI that relies too much [...]

The last blog post inspired some interesting thoughts and opinions. So I did a little surfing and found some interesting articles (with pictures of course) that touched on the issue as well.
Boobs Through the Years
Soul Calibur IV keeps laying on the sexuality
Soul Calibur IV gets boob job
This is a particularly interesting topic in light of [...]

This is moderately gaming related once you see the picture (below the fold). On Threshold today, we were trying to inspire people to vote for us on various game ranking sites. So as often happens, the discussion turned to “boobies.” I decided to google an inspirational picture, and so I googled “hottest naked chick on [...]

This is a really interesting idea for game financing. It sounds utterly impossible and unlikely to ever work, but it is still worth pondering. Gabe is a smart guy with a great history in the industry (his company is Valve, you may have heard of it… they did Half Life, Steam, Left 4 Dead).
Valve’s Newell: [...]

Wow. The bad news just keeps rolling in. This was reported on Gamasutra:
Sony Online Entertainment Lays Off 41
This is after they recently reported losses of over a billion dollars (Sony, not SOE specifically), and the CEO of Activision threatening to stop making games for the PS3 if they don’t cut prices.
EQ2 struggles to maintain a [...]

I met Jon Radoff, the founder of gamerDNA, at IMGDC. He is an all around great guy and a pioneer in the MUD/MMO/online gaming industry. His new company is extremely interesting and already has a couple of really fun applications out there. Without spoiling the more detailed article, gamerDNA basically creates a community out of [...]

The article about games for couples generates some interesting points, so I figured I’d point out a few other articles by the same writer that go into various types of Wii Games:
Plus, the picture from the one about hardcore games cracked me up enormously.
5 Best Wii Games for Hardcore Gamers
5 Best Wii Games, Period [...]

I was reading another article from one of my excellent Bright Hub writers and it got me thinking about this topic:
5 Best Wii Games for Couples
Aside from the Wii, is there any platform at all that really makes an effort to develop gaming content specifically for couples? And I am not referring to sexual related [...]

This story has been reported in a few places, and of course EA makes it sound like they just parted ways, but the ugly truth is pretty obvious. Warhammer grossly underperformed, and as a result Mark Jacobs has been sacked. While I feel he and EA/Mythic did a horrible job overall with Warhammer (despite it [...]