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GOTY 2014

13 items in list • Created Dec 22, 2014

GOTY 2012

10 items in list • Created Dec 12, 2012

DOOM, idTech and MegaTextures

Sep 15, 2015

DOOM is coming, but I hope MegaTextures are gone. We recently had our first glimpse of the newest entry in the long-lived Doom series, styled simply as DOOM , at this year’s E3 conference. First for most of us, anyway, as id did in fact show the game to an audience at QuakeCon in 2014, though this footage was kept behind closed doors - a troublesome but not unheard-of marketing technique in whi...

How My High-Speed Internet Destroyed World of Warcraft (or, Why Blizzard Will Never Recapture the Magic)

Feb 13, 2013

In the past, I was a huge fan of World of Warcraft. As with many others it was my first true taste of the MMO experience, though in many ways my passion for the game has diminished as time has gone on. Some of this declination of interest can be put down to changes made to the game itself, as Blizzard began leaning toward generating easier content for a wider audience; I recently discovered, fo...