From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Fallen Earth makes female avatars more "feminine".

September 25, 2009

According to Massively, Fallen Earth has made changes to their female avatars to differentiate them from the male avatars more.   My favorite quote is:
“Fallen Earth has never been about the sexiness of its females,” said product manager Jessica Orr, “but after some comments from fans and a hard look at the female faces, we decided [...]

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Aion: Things I'm Enjoying

September 25, 2009

Everyone is saying that Aion brings very little new to the table.  No one is mind blown with the game.  I’m certainly not mind blown either, and I agree that the game isn’t particularly innovative.  However, I am actually having fun.  Color me surprised.
Looks, feel, environment:
I’ll just lump these all in together and not say [...]

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CuppyFact: Death Becomes Her

September 24, 2009

Little known fact about me.  If I die in an MMO (or in fact, any RPG or game EVER) there is at least a 50% chance I will logout and never log into the game ever again.  If it’s a console RPG where I forgot to save and I have to repeat content (like say, [...]

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25 Things I Never Want to Hear in General Chat

September 23, 2009

In the spirit of “50 Things I Never Need to Hear at Another Conference” by Joe Ludwig, here comes “25 Things I Never Need to Hear in General Chat (of Insert MMO Here)”.

This game could be the WoW killer.
WoW is the the WoW killer.
Blizzard are slowly working on killing WoW.
Anything involving the phrase “WoW Killer”.
This [...]

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Mini-Review on Aion

September 23, 2009

Here’s my mini review of Aion, the game no one can pronounce out loud:
Graphics: A
Immersiveness: A
Quest storylines: B
Character models: A
Animations: C
Performance: A
Polish: A-
Sound: B+
Combat: C+
Warning:  This has been based on far not enough time in the game.  Just wanted to point out that if for some reason I stop playing this game…it isn’t because it [...]

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Joystiq's honorable move on EA's Sin to Win contest

September 22, 2009

I’m sure the #EAFail fiasco is still fresh in everyone’s mind.  This was the promotion ran by EA at San Diego Comic Con that encouraged men to take pictures of themselves doing “lude acts” with booth babes.  Well, Joystiq is doing something honorable.
They were send a $200 check by EA as part of a marketing [...]

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Gender Roles, Game Developers, and Ethics

September 17, 2009

There’s a post over on GameCritics.com that irks me quite a bit.  The author of the article is basically calling out another author on GameCritics for accusing game developers of not respecting feminist views, equality, and gender roles.  The author posts an interesting question, which is – “Are Game Developers Ethically Responsible for Gender Roles [...]

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Dollars and cents.

September 16, 2009

Some interesting revenue numbers and monetization results have come out Austin GDC.  (which I am super sad to not be attending this year…)
Here are some of the more interesting points:

EA is targeting a 7-8% conversion rate for free to play games, but expects that to lower to 5% with social network traffic
Top merchant in Second [...]

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Whoa.

September 14, 2009

So I posted last week about how blogging isn’t SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Well shit.  Apparently it is.

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Margaret Wallace Chat Tomorrow

September 14, 2009

At Metaplace we have been holding a regular “Creative Series” where we talk with someone involved with game design/production, writing, or any other creative outlet.  Tomorrow we will be speaking to Margaret Wallace, who has quite the extensive resume when it comes to the casual games market.  She has worked on games for Shockwave, worked [...]

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