A fascinating and lengthy blog post (made in January but it’s making the rounds now) about a visit to a museum of Soviet-era arcade games. There are many pictures. And I am very glad I was not a child of the Soviet 80s.
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Stewie Griffin Designs A Multiplayer Service
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Sep
Features Games and Gaming Software Tech
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Ah yes. Gaaaming. One could hardly think of an area more ripe for exploitation. Pasty-faced youths living in their parent’s basements avoiding all contact with the outside world.
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- Categories Features, Games and Gaming, Software, Tech
- Author Niteowl
StarCraft II : The Eldritch Mystery of Custom Maps Part II
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Sep
Features Games and Gaming
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Part I to this aimless ramble is here.
By not allowing users to distribute their custom maps and requiring authentication to get a map hosted on their servers, Blizzard make themselves the middleman. They want to control the types of games you can play. Censoring out ones they don’t like so much, you know, with the iron-not-quite-gentle-fist-of-oh-watch-out-almost-Godwinned-this-post of corporate control.
But it’s really, I suspect, a way to monetize content. To take advantage of novel games that might get far more popular than one could reasonably expect; and even more harrowing, free.
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- Categories Features, Games and Gaming
- Author Niteowl
StarCraft II : The Eldritch Mystery of Custom Maps Part I
It isn’t often I’m moved to rant about video games. There are plenty of other nerds with better thought-out opinions, usually supported by graphs and proofs and the phrases “non-trivial”, and “Let N be…”.
But this, this is a hill where I plant my flag, affix bayonets, and take a stand, with all the power in my laughably flabby body with questionable hygiene.
Custom. Maps. In StarCraft. II.
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- Categories Features
- Author Niteowl
The Troll population might be decimated.
The first and most significant change is that in the near future, anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID -- that is, their real-life first and last name -- with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it. These changes will go into effect on all StarCraft II forums with the launch of the new community site prior to the July 27 release of the game, with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm. Certain classic forums, including the classic Battle.net forums, will remain unchanged.
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Living First Person
It’s 1977. I’m 12 years old. It’s a gorgeous Northern BC summer day, one of those glorious fleeting perfect days that are all the sweeter in the frozen north, because the memories of mud and slush barely fade before the leaves have already begun to turn again. Utterly pure blue sky, sun warm on the skin, grass a deep impatient green, a light breeze off the lake that is so invigoratingly packed with oxygen and piney perfume it might as well be cocaine. I’m playing third base, it’s what we’d call little league if we called it that in Canada back then, I’m just beginning to feel the awkwardness of adolescence, but the sheer pleasure of being alive and standing on that dirt under that gigantic bowl of sky on that day is more than enough to let me ignore my self-consciousness. I’m a big, strong kid, and even if I’m more bookworm than jock, I enjoy sports.
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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: Technical Peccadilloes Edition
We return after holidays, work, and the inevitable technical breakdowns, but we persevere to bring you another podcast! This week, we discuss the impossible: Minecraft goes 1.0, the unfortunate: GSC Game Studios and GamePro fold, and the stupid: EA continues their über-ban policy, parents name their kid after a character in Skyrim, Telltale gets caught [...]
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I Hate You So Much Right Now
Making video game characters with whom I can fall in love takes a cocktail of hard work, genius, luck and Jennifer Hale. It turns out that making video game characters I can hate takes practically no effort at all. In this short series of articles a small collection of pixels, logic and random events will [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Week 3.5
To get myself back in the groove, I will make this short and (hopefully) sweet. I have 3 Steam copies of Worms Reloaded to give away. All you have to do is comment below, and I will randomly pick 3 winners. No stories needed! I will pick the winners Thursday night, and announce them sometime [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Portal 2 Edition!
Well, hell, it’s been a long time. I’m sorry for the disruption in service. To make up for it, I’m giving away 2 copies of Portal 2. You might have heard of Portal, it helped launch the Orange box, made TF2 a household name (at least in my circle of friends) So, here is the [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: CIV V Edition
Welcome back to the feature formerly known as Do You Like Free Stuff. This time around, I am offering up one pre-order Direct2Drive copy of Civilization V. The contest will run til 8:00 P.M. Eastern Thursday September 2nd. How do you enter? Just leave a comment below. I will randomly choose one winner this week [...]
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Important Internet Opinion: Singularity
I’ve played through a few hours of Raven’s everything-old-is-new again First Person Thing, Singularity. I am now prepared to tell you exactly what you need to know about it. Q: Is it pretty? A: Yes, it is quite pretty, with the kind of predictable Unreal Engine prettiness that we — or me at least — [...]
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Amusing Image o’the Day
Parts of battle.net are down. And someone’s a fan of Firefly. ∞
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E3 By Proxy: Is Anybody Out There? Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and Medal of Honor
If you can read this, then that means my can-and-string laptop/Evo 4G combination is working, and I’m posting from the floor of E3! Literally, I’m sitting in line for the Halo Reach demo as I write this. If this thing continues to work, then I will be bringing you live posts from the floor of [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Portal 2 Edition, Winners!
Sorry for the announcement delay, it was a long and busy weekend. The winners are: SpacePope NiceGuyMike Congratz to the winners! Sorry to all that did not win, but check back soon for more fun and exciting contests. ∞
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L4D2 NPC’s and Infected Rejected Out Of Hand
Oil Derrick Worker You never see them, because, well, they’re kinda isolated, but you hear reports about them, and they sound terrifying. Tai Chi Master If you ever swing that ax faster than an heavily sedated sea sponge, he goes down immediately. But should you go slower, HOO EEEEE!. Hipsters You only ever encounter their [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Portal 2 Edition!
Well, hell, it’s been a long time. I’m sorry for the disruption in service. To make up for it, I’m giving away 2 copies of Portal 2. You might have heard of Portal, it helped launch the Orange box, made TF2 a household name (at least in my circle of friends) So, here is the [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet:Poker Night at the Inventory Edition-Winners!
Thanks to everyone who typed some letters and then hit the “Submit Comment” button! The 5 lucky winners are: Timothy beardlace Lawton27 gamegeneral Gemmy check your email, or steam popups. Enjoy your prizes! Stay tuned for our next event. ∞
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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: An Auspicious Start (11.18.10)
Hello, Full Glass Empty Clip readers! We’ve received a literal trickle of emails complaining about the lack of sensory stimulation that our humble blog provides. Here’s an example letter: “Dear Full Glass Empty Clip: Your website is wondrous to behold, a treat for the eyes, both in design and the uniformly high quality of the [...]
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