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Congrats to Haiven, formerly known as Lilie!!! They made a good choice with you :D

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2011/04/29/star-wars-the-old-republic-preview/1

Seems people really don't want another WoW. Hopefully the rest of the industry is catching on.

It's actually really common for an "eastern" art style to make western gamers uneasy. I remember trying to get my friend to play a Korean game, and he couldn't get past the art style. I can't even...

It's been a while since I've heard anything about this.
The action combat is looking good :D

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/04/28/blade-and-soul-combat-videos-surface-on-youtube/

This was a reminder, I've been working on other things :/ trying to get some nice portfolio work together. I'll try to finish those things by the end of the week and then focus solely on dwv.

@Ferrel
this is the link if you're interested

Open PvP be can be done right though. In fact I just wrote a blog post about it :D

Oddly enough I'm not really a fan of any of the Bethesda/TES/Fallout games, but I am really looking forward to Reckoning. I think the reason for that is that there is a connection between Reckoning...

Looks amazing. I'd be interested to know more specifics. I have a lot of faith in a director and producer from the dmc team and what their take on the genre would be.

Looks great! :D

I think there is a general push for combat to have more action in the RPG/MMORPG genres (a good thing). This does not really make the games too similar for comfort or anything, they have completely...

On that note: http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011/04/public-quests-come-to-wow-in-patch-43.html

:P

Wow! Fantastic work Lilie! You and your wife did a fantastic job on these. I looked at some of the semi-finalists and, in my opinion, these were just as good if not better than many of them,...

@Laraden Reminds me of a friend of mine that wanted me to join his group to power through the content in WoW so that they could reach the "endgame" as soon as possible. He was under the impression...

hahaha

It's unfortunate though that a game can do well regardless of being shallow. Maybe when the market gets a truly good game then people will be able to tell the difference and invest...

Not making the holiday isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think avoiding directly competing with skyrim is a wise choice. The beginning of the year is actually becoming a popular time for pretty big...

Maybe they can use the extra time for polish and optimization. Gears is doing something similar I think. There's always room for improvement!!! :p

although.... COPERNICUS!

maybe once I get my...

I was the same way, had no idea this site existed and then I stumbled across it and lurked a bit and now here I am.

Edit: Welcome by the way! :D

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2157/soapbox_why_virtual_worlds_are_.php

This was an interesting post about that mentality. WoW has many weak points in its design, but for most active...

I've read blogs of various people that would be terrific game designers, the way they think logically, the way they come to conclusions and solve problems... It's funny (by which I mean sad) these...

I'm actually really curious how the actual "game design" aspect of the development for a lot of these games works. Is marketing the reason why these games have such unambitious design? Tons of...

I agree with contextual combat. I'd rather have one worthwhile fight than having a bunch of minor, intermittent fights just for the sake of having them (and filling "content"). I would really like...

For some reason it really bugs me when I can't jump in games. Glad it's in there. Hopefully it's in Copernicus.

From my understanding, I don't think that rifts are meant to feel mandatory. I thought it was more of a random event in the world that you can help out with if you want a change of pace and some...

We all agree on this, but that's not saying some people might want to be personally networked into their games through facebook or something (which is fine if it's optional). For some people the...