MMOG
LEGO MMOG Coming 2008
The childhood addiction of many a geek is about to come to life. LEGO and NetDevil have announced a LEGO MMOG for 2008. Previously, NetDevil has developed such specialty MMOGs as Auto Assault and Jumpgate.
After the success of LEGO Star Wars II, I seriously expect a lot out of this game. I played with LEGO as a child; its highly standardized mix-and-match sets made for hours of collaborative world-building. Let’s hope this MMOG lets you build the gameworld as much as you play in it.
Happy Wintersday!
I’m celebrating the sanitized Saturnalia you call Christmas in the game world of Guild Wars, where we call it something more straightforward: Wintersday.
This Christmas, forget the fairy tales about Santa Claus and Baby Jesus. Saint Nicholas of Myra is long dead, and the philosopher Jesus of Nazareth was born in September. Celebrate this Holiday Season for what it has always been since the days when winter gave people an excuse to break free from the daily grind of working in the fields, long before the Christian church and big business bastardized and exploited it: a time to cast off the yoke of social norms, a time to go wild.
In other words, it’s time to play.
