Well, it’s happened. Star Wars the Old Republic is going Free 2 Play. Does this mean that the subscription game model is officially dead? Maybe. If SWTOR can’t succeed on it, I don’t think we’ll see many more big games try. Is that good or bad? I dunno. When I Read more…
As a writer, I’m a fan of copyright. It protects me from people stealing my stories and treating them as their own. However, as a user of the internet. I think copyright and patent laws are to restrictive and byzantine. The resent case between Apple and Samsung brought this subject Read more…
So it’s been a little quiet around here lately. I’ve done maybe 3 posts in the last two weeks. We’ve had workers here rebuilding our shower (and running out of tile) so that’s caused a bit of a distraction to my writing. In an effort to dive back in, I’ll Read more…
Are they an elite force of government assassins whose job it is to kill people who cheat in games? Are they a group of gamers who write articles about games? Or are they crack team of heroes sent back in time to save the world from alien invaders? I could Read more…
Some of you may have seen me complaining about Comcast on Twitter last week. So I thought I’d explain the full extent of their suckiness. For a long time, my internet has had a tendency to not work at random times. It will just go out for a few hours. Read more…
The latest update to Star Trek Online went live last Thursday, Season 6: Under Siege. Like everything Cryptic does, it’s a mixed bag. Though , for a change, mostly positive. I’ll break my thoughts down below. The Good Overall, this is one of, if not the, best releases in STO Read more…
I’ve had some time to dig into the new Civ expansion some over the last few weeks. Overall, I’m really enjoying it. I’ll give you a summary of the games I’ve played and then take a look at some of the new features that came with expansion. The first game Read more…
Starfleet Dossier: Jaarod Naris (circa 2409) Rank: Rear Admiral Species: Bajoran Assignment: Commanding Officer, Task Force 733 In 2409, the ship’s of Jaarod’s special operations task force became integrated into Starfleet’s main fleet structure. The bulk of them joined TF-733, under Jaarod’s command as a freshly minted Rear Admiral. With the war with the Read more…
I started the Couch to 5k program two weeks ago. The way it works, is 3 days a week, every other day, you go on a run that is a series of running and walking intervals. Each week the run periods get longer with the eventual goal of you running Read more…
I originally had no interest in seeing “The Amazing Spiderman”. When I heard about it, my first reaction was, “Really?”. Anothe remake so soon after the previous ones seemed excessive. It has only been 5 years since “Spiderman 3”, and 10 years since the first one. That’s not a lot Read more…