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MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. It is a really terrible acronym. I think they should have gone with MMORTS, but whatever. The granddaddy of MOBA games is a Warcraft 3 mod called DotA – Defense of the Ancients. There are now two commercial MOBAs out there. League of Legends (LoL) is the more [...]

Mostly, I am sharing this simply because it is pretty interesting and shocking information. But to make keep it on topic, I put forth this question: would it be a cool game feature if you could perform a last action, or a few last actions, after death? In what circumstances would this be a neat [...]

If I’m going to bother posting on this blog at all, I need to post more frequently and actually give people a reason to check back often. My goals going forward:

10 more posts for Dec.
At least 20 posts in Jan 2011.

All I ask from readers:

Share the blog link with some friends.
Post comments!

Maybe some fellow bloggers can help me out here. My WordPress dashboard says:
WordPress 2.9.1 is available! Please update now.
So I click the link, choose the [Upgrade Automatically] option, and eventually it gets to this:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1.zip.
Unpacking the update.
It churns for a few minutes, and then stops. But it is not upgrading. I’ve always done [...]

As many readers here know, in addition to owning and running a gaming company, I am the Managing Editor of the MMO and Nintendo Wii channels at the technology web site Bright Hub. Bright Hub recently broke the top 1,000 barrier for busiest web sites on the internet, and as a result my article budgets [...]

I gave in. I now have twitter accounts for Muckbeast , Threshold RPG, and Primordiax. Please follow both so I can feel like the things I post there are actually being (potentially) read by someone.
Muckbeast on twitter
Threshold RPG on twitter
Primordiax on twitter

I started a project over at Bright Hub to build up a dictionary of MMO Gaming terms. Right now it is broken up into three sections:
MMO Gaming Dictionary – Combat Terminology
MMO Gaming Dictionary – Character Terminology
MMO Gaming Dictionary – General Terminology
Then I created a place where people can go to post their own new ones:
Add [...]

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 [...]

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.
I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]