ATARI

the death of Asheron's Call 2, so the end of a whole world

Musings on Massively Multiplayer Online Games, among other things, written by Mark Wallace

Grid-crashing attack on Second Life

about the new virtual worlds

"I've written in the past about the "Uncanny Valley" -- the phenomenon that as computer graphics become more and more lifelike, the characters they create look more and more ghoulish."

Nintendo Famicom = 6502 CPU = ROM Sound Hacks = Mega Man 2

4-Color > Visual Representation > NES ROM Data Sprites > Music > Code

@mnartists.org

like Rag Doll Kung-fu, but doesn't look as great

You are a stag, a male deer. So are the other players. You meet each other in an endless forest on the internet. The setting is idyllic, the atmosphere peaceful. You communicate with one another through sounds and body language.

"If women gamers are a minority in the video game world, then lesbian gamers are a minority among women gamers."

A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse

Ron Gilbert's blog (one of the creators oh Monkey Island)

a Star Wars mod for Operation Flashpoint

the softwares on the old CPC464 were loaded from audio cassettes. this website offers the sounds from those cassettes to download, so you can write them on a cassette again to load them on your old CPC464 :D