I cancelled my WAR account yesterday. No, it’s not that I don’t enjoy the game. I’m just finding I haven’t got the time to play it these days. In fact, I haven’t played much of anything on the PC, just the odd Xbox 360 (often Arcade) game to kill time.
Sadly, my account had just auto-renewed [...]
Ack. Been a while since I posted anything, hasn’t it? Yeah. Life has a funny way of monopolizing any free time you think you have, and then you realize two weeks have gone by since your last post… ugh. Well, I’m here now, aren’t I? That’s what counts. *cough*
I used to be an avid single-player RPGer [...]
Posted in: Age of Conan, Guild Wars, Miscellaneous, PvE, Single-player RPGs, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | Also tagged bethesda, fallout 3, mmorpgs, rpgs, single-player, xbox 360
Apparently the folks over at Jolt Online have a keen sense of humour, as they managed to launch the latest iteration of the Zork franchise on the one day of the year that most wouldn’t contemplate launching a new product — aside from a statuatory holiday, of course.
If you happen to be a fan of stick-man [...]
Posted in: Industry News, Miscellaneous, New Releases | Also tagged 2009, activision, browser games, casual gaming, freemium, jolt online, kingdom of loathing, launch, legends of zork, zork
If you’re anything like me (i.e. overworked, totally stressed out, and in your early 30s), and was a gamer back in the ’80s and early ’90s, you probably played a few games in the Zork series.
Infocom’s Great Underground Empire captivated the hearts and minds of old-school PC gamers back in the very early 1980s, moving [...]