In Real Life

The Game That Created A Legion Of Authors

MUDs and MUSHes, remember those? These were the first multiplayer online role-playing games, popular in the 1990s and largely text-based. In the case of a MUSH, playing involved writing thousands of words, a skill that’s proven useful later in life for some enthusiasts.


January 17, 2011
In Real Life

In Video Games, What’s Worth A Wiki Entry?

The amount of video-games related content on Wikipedia is staggering; I can’t recall the last time I entered a title into its search and could not find a complete entry. As Wired writes, however, not everything passes moderation. Should it?


April 2, 2009
News

What A Day To Launch Legends Of Zork

I suppose April 1st is as good a day as ever to revisit the ruins of the Great Underground Empire, as Jolt Online Gaming launches their free-to-play browser-based adventure game, Legends of Zork.


December 10, 2008
Uncategorized

WoW Torture Update – Bartle Responds To Comments, Trolls And Criticism

You may recall that MUD creator Richard Bartle took issue with a torture quest in WoW: Wrath Of The Lich King. He got a few responses, some rather critical and others rather trollish.


November 26, 2008
News

MUD Designer Unhappy About WoW Torture Quest

Richard Bartle – co-author of the original MMO game MUD, but you knew that already, right? – has been playing Wrath of the Lich King and does not like what he has found.


October 22, 2008
Uncategorized

The MMO Is 30 Years Old

If,on your way to work/school this morning, you saw a bunch of hung-over warriors and bedraggled mages blearily waking up in a shop doorway they were probably just on their way home from the 30th birthday pub crawl they organised for the Massively Multiplayer genre.