Catégorie : gaming
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DUST 514 to be free-to-play: what next?
CCP announced that their online first-person shooter DUST 514 will be free-to-play. It means that we expect any owner of the supported gaming platform (PlayStation3) to be able to experience the game, at release, in a reasonably enjoyable fashion without having to pay an entry fee. Some players will provide revenue to the publisher by…
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Playing with the Company 8: Raise the Jolly Roger!
“You bloody idiot, you know better than to mix yer liquors!” Kage Baker, The Life of the World to Come Characters in the Company series have a peculiar look at history. The future depicted in the novels is bland. Past times is where interesting stuff happened: cowboys, Indians, and of course pirates. To truly understand pirates, you…
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Eve Online has shards
The single most vaunted feature of Eve Online, along with the focus on sandbox gameplay, has to be its single shard universe. All players are able to interact with each other in the context of the game. The single shard leverages the full potential of the community. This is a marketing lie. Another shard of…
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Playing with the Company 7: Dissipating Shadows
« Almost the first thing the Company discovered, when it went into this time travel business so many ages ago, was that history cannot be changed. Recorded history anyway. But if you work within the parameters of recorded history, you actually have quite a bit of leeway, because recorded history is frequently wrong, and there are…
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Playing with the Company 6: Kage Baker online
This is an incomplete list of online references about Kage Baker on Internet, to be updated little by little. Begin your journey on the Kage Baker official website. Then sail to Kathleen’s blog. (Kathleen Baker continues her sister’s work.) On your way for further reading, stop by the excellent Wikipedia notices about Kage Baker and…