Anyone ever play Warcraft III? My son (codename: mabobber) created his first quiz at Fun Trivia. Sample questions:  What is the first level of the Undead standard building? Which unit harvests lumber? Where do you get Banshees from?

I have a bunch of games that have a multiplayer option but my ISP (SBC Yahoo) does not allow inbound socket connections unless you have a business account (which costs $$$$$$). What do other people do? Does your ISP allow … Continue reading →

The finder blogged about it here. It’s a neat story. Now I have to figure out what to do with the 20 unsolved cards I have on my nightstand.

[I wrote this months ago. Posting it now (unfinished) to clear out my backlog – ed] A little while ago, a bunch of us went to see Nick Yee give a presentation about Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) at PARC. … Continue reading →

According to the Neurophilosopher a patient with epilepsy was fitted with a BCI2000, a device that monitors brain activity, to monitor his seizures. Because the patient was required to remain connected to the BCI until he had a seizure, engineers … Continue reading →

Raph Koster uses an analogy with sports to make a point about structure in multi-player games. He chose the wrong sport though. First some terminology. Most of the recent online games require you to choose a class (a healer, a … Continue reading →

I attended the PARC Open Forum today and heard Nick Yee share some fascinating insights about MMORPGS. Nick gave the presentation that I expected Raph Koster to give – also at PARC – a couple of months ago and he … Continue reading →

Julio has a list of all the features that would be in his dream MMO.My list would be very similar but with the word ‘not’ carefully inserted into most of the sentences. But, then again, I haven’t played an online … Continue reading →

Aaron is complaining that Nintendo has renamed their forthcoming Revolution to Wii (pronouced “we”). All my game playing buddies are bewailing the same thing. I asked my son and all his 5th grade buddies and they said : “weeeee!” “Coool!” … Continue reading →