“I sense a disturbance in the force.”

There’s an interesting bit of news regarding how EA is now policing and enforcing game forum rules, and from the initial online comments it’s going to be a very controversial move. The post made by an EA rep is quoted below, emphasis mine for readers who’d like just the 1 minute capsule version:
Well, its actually going to be a bit [...]

Virtual Items in MMORPGs: Is it really yours?

Gamespy has a really interesting article on who really owns all those virtual assets your very uber high level-powered characters in MMOGs possess; the game service, or the player. The Gamespy article references a recent article on Player Rights from The Escapist, an excerpt of which is below:
Over the past several years many journalists, game developers [...]

Hidden costs in MMOGs

Massively.com has a write-up on an aspect of MMOGs (massively-multiplayer online games) that doesn’t show up too often: bandwidth consumption and costs. Excerpts below from the full article here.
MMOGs as a rule don’t use a whole lot of bandwidth in actual operation. However, the quantity definitely rises in busy areas with lots of players, where [...]

Who plays games?

Here’s an important article I’ll be duplicating under Key Articles for current 2nd year GET students in the Business in Computer Games subject next year in April.
IGN Entertainment and Ipsos Media CT did a comprehensive study on video gamers. Their study revealed a number of findings, some of which I think has long been suspected [...]

The Witcher

A Casual Review of The Witcher (PC)
No, this isn’t another educational game review. For a change, this one’s just a game review for an RPG I’ve been playing for several months now.:)
The Witcher is a PC-based adult / mature RPG that was developed nearly a year ago by CD Projekt Red Studio and available in Singapore from Atari. The [...]

GCA-Games Convention Asia

Been a long time since my last post. been to busy since my end of semester exams and throughout the semester break. lots have been happening. mainly some events like the games convention asia and also working for the thalessamia conference.
The school actually asked for volunteers for the GCA. most of the people who went [...]

The Business of Computer Games

BSCG is the subject abbreviation for the subject Business of Computer Games taken at GET’s senior year. In the mean time, there’s an interesting writeup on the cost of producing games, courtesy of Techradar on just why computer games cost so much retail. Excerpt below:
There may be some truth in that, but console game design [...]

Of the Internship pt.III, and stuff.

Hai Gais, I r backz!
Pardon the poor grammar & spelling, I believe we all need to speak like that once in awhile to get bad things outta the system! Anyways, as I’m sure those who have been reading this blog since its inception will notice that I’ve… been… *cough*… neglecting my posting duties hehehe. Anyway, [...]

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

A Casual Review of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Naughty Dog as a game development studio has been around for more than two decades now since their founding in 1986. While they’re better known for their Jak & Daxter video game series, they scored a surprise and big hit with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune on the PS3 a year ago.
In [...]

Drama Melachony

After watching Painted Skin and having a good feeling from it, and the upcoming 20th Century Boys movie that I have already concluded to be 6 stars out of 5, I decided to give real life Drama Serials a try again. I know that Japanese Drama Serials have some very good titles, and I enjoyed [...]