Editorial: Fixing the MMO Genre: A Few Ideas
Here, I present five common problems with MMOs and some suggestions for fixing them.
Author: Lane
Staff Reviewer, The Day Tonight
Review: Defender Chronicles (iPhone/iPod Touch)
Defender Chronicles presents an RPG-fied take on the tower defense genre with nicely scaled difficulty and Borat on the microphone. Really.
Editorial: Gamers, Games, and The Game
Game writers have put gamers in the spotlight as potential players of "the Game," a method of manipulation and subterfuge meant to provide people with easy answers to the often-messy world of romantic relationships. Gamers, however, should realize the purveyors of "the Game" are no different than the pushers of cheats, exploits and hacks: callous profiteers that have no respect for either players or the game itself.
Review: WoW: Call of the Crusade
The latest World of Warcraft patch is heavy on lore, but light on content.
Editorial: Gamers, Enthusiasm, and Disbarment: A Morality Play
Jack Thompson, an unpopular figure in the world of video games, suffered not for his ideas but for his enthusiasm in the presentation of those ideas. Likewise, gamers should be careful not to let their love of the medium of video games outpace their reason.
Lane Haygood, Esq.
Hello world.
My name, as you might so craftily surmise from the byline, is Lane.
I am always at a loss for how to explain myself, at least not without going to lengths that would cause Proust envy. I doubt I have Proust’s hand at prose; doubtless you would skip over this to something more interesting, su…