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Evening Newspost for 05-29-07

Industry and multi-console news:


PC news:

  • The National Institute on Media and the Family has commended Microsoft on its quick handling of the Halo 2 butt issue.
  • Slashdot is offering the chance to ask the CEO of Turbine about Lord of the Rings Online.
  • The CEO of Obsidian says traditional RPG developers need to consider what RPGs offer over MMORPGs to avoid losing players to online games. "It used to be fine to make an RPG that was just wandering around and hacking things up with the player having very little effect on the world around them. Why play that game now if you could just play a MMO?" Because I don't want to pay a subscription and deal with MMO players?
  • Blogging Ultima is a site dedicated to blogging the experience of every Ultima game from beginning to end.
  • New Scientist has a narrated gallery of images from the Alter Ego book. If you don't remember, that's the one with the photos of people next to their in-game avatars.


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Comments

Surely its not rocket science to work out what single-player RPGs offer over their MMO variants?

Better storylines, more interesting characters than lecherous nerds, and as a result, a deeper and richer game world to explore.

Why do people still play single-player FPSs when we have online ones? Because the two offer different experiences.

are you purposefully misspelling "lionhead"

It is a fansite called Loinhead. All you have to do is look at the URL.

I hope I don't have to explain this every time I link to them.

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