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  • Talking MMORPGs, From Ultima Online To Amazon’s New World

    Talking MMORPGs, From Ultima Online To Amazon’s New World

    For nearly three and a half decades, massively multiplayer online role-playing game fans have been wandering the digital wilderness, chopping down trees, hunting for boars, and getting murdered by other players while doing so. We did it in Ultima Online back in 1997, and we’re doing it in Amazon’s new MMORPG today. What’s so appealing…


  • Could A Video Game Start A Religion?

    Could A Video Game Start A Religion?

    I’m a confirmed believer in the church of video games, a sect whose faith has been rewarded over the past decade, as games have sailed easily over the hurdles that have been placed in front of them by the apostates. No one really disputes anymore that games can make us cry, make us laugh, teach…