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Slashdot's Michael Zenke mentioned to me earlier this month that he was now penning a regular column for 1Up about massively multiplayer games. More »
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True, chess champion Garry Kasparov's ties to video games are tangential at best. (Though I loved his PC chess games.) But I have a soft spot for him and when I read on Slashdot that he had been arrested for leading a march through Moscow in opposition to Russian President Vladamir Putin, I knew I had to post it. More »
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Wow. Say what you will about Phil Harrison, president of Worldwide Studios for Sony, but the man certainly has some brass balls. Harrison has agreed to make a run through the Q&A gauntlet that is the Slashdot Ask series. More »
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Sissily slapping Charlie Demerijian to death with their purple electronic purses, the Cylons over at Slashdot have taken umbrage at The Inquirer's earlier portrayal of the PS3's Cell as "slow and broken". More »
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Slashdot beat me to the punch this morning and has an interesting three-pronged look at the naming of Nintendo's Revolution. The article cites the story I wrote for the Rocky Mountain News in which I spoke to a branding expert about the name. It also includes Chris Kohler's defense of Wii over on Wired and Games.Net's piece on the strangeness of the name. More »
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It's finally happened: The goodness that is Carnival of Games has hit the greatness that is Slashdot. More »
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Last week or so SOE announced a ground-up revamp of Star Wars Galaxies, in an attempt to bring it more in line with the action-adventure films, and presumably slightly further away from the sit-back-and-craft MMOG that it could sometimes be. One particular aspect of the update has the diminished community up in arms: Jedi is now a starting profession. More »
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Oh dear. What a geek faux pas: Blizzard made CmdrTaco, Lord of Slashdot, change his name in World of Warcraft. More »
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