Tyler Rilling

An interesting look at naming conventions in World of Warcraft. Personally, from an early age, I've found myself becoming prejudiced against people whose usernames began and ended in ‘x’ or included Final Fantasy or Dragon Ball names. Looking at you xX-Sephiroth-Xx69.

An Investigation of World of Warcraft Character NamesA story of explorative game analytics and the surprises you encounter when investigating eight million World of Warcraft characters - and a couple of thousand Battlefield player

Ouya’s Free the Games promotion has always been such a weird promotion. Instead of promising to just hand $50k to any kickstarter game, a better idea would have been to actually use the money to get other developers on board and fix the problems that currently plague the Ouya ecosystem, instead of outright ignoring existing developers’ complaints as seen in the comments section of the blog post.

Razer Forge TV | RZ16-0128x SupportThis article contains the User Guides, Manuals, and Documentation

This past summer I started working on another feature for the site, called Blips.

I loved the first parts of Escape From City-17. Out of all the fan made Half-Life inspired films, I always thought this was one of the best produced. I hope it get the funding it needs.

Half-Life: Escape From City-17 Part 3The next installment in the Escape From City-17 series. Based on the Half-Life games. | Check out ‘Half-Life: Escape From City-17 Part 3’ on Indiegogo.Indiegogo [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/half-life-escape-from-city-17-part-3]

Additionally, Chilton noted that Blizzard was warming to the idea of reconfiguring World of Warcraft as a free-to-play title.

I’ve always wondered how long until WoW went free-to-play. With their recent additions to their online store, and the dwindling population, I expect it’s now only a matter of time before we see a completely free version.

Blizzard on <i>World of Warcraft</i>: We’d be lost without casuals“Audiences always evolve,” says <i>World of Warcraft</i> lead designer Tom Chilton

This might be the greatest game to the Oculus Rift yet.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/23/psa-oculus-rift-support-now-in-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-on/

A pretty good roundup of Xbox One posts at Gamescom from Destructoid.

Today’s Xbox One reveals from gamescom 2013Microsoft’s indie plans detailed The first major conference of gamescom 2013 was belonged to Microsoft, and while there was some...DestructoidChris Moyse [http://www.destructoid.com/today-s-xbox-one-reveals-from-gamescom-2013-260447.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Destructoid+%28Destructoid%29]

“EA didn’t give a shit about FIFA.”

Rejection, tragedy and billions of dollars - The story of FIFA - MCV/DEVELOPEA didn’t give a shit about FIFA.”Neil Thewarapperuma (or Neil T to his friends) isn’t a man to mince his words. He was the European marketing boss for EA Sports back in 1993, the year the publisher wMCV/DEVELOPMCV Staff [http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/rejection-tragedy-and-billions-of-dollars-the-story-of-fifa/0120299]

There’s some great stuff coming out of the 7DFPS game jam. I’m not sure how practical this could be, but being able to see in every direction at once adds a new layer of interaction to your typical first person shooter.

Can I run it?Can I run it? is a system requirements checker to find out ALL the games your PC can run. Just enter the specifications to find all the compatible games.Can I run it? [https://7dfps.com/]

Jennifer Helper was working on sequel Dragon Age: Inquisition but is quitting BioWare this week to go freelance, in large part thanks to threats she and others of the team received in the wake of Dragon Age II’s release.

Both [http://oneofswords.com/2013/07/editorial-stop-threatening-game-developers/] of these [http://dudehugespeaks.tumblr.com/post/56805389679/dynamite-fishing-an-open-letter-to-phil-fish] posts still seam relevent. Even if it comes from some anonymous kid or manchild, who’

Half-Life 3 has become the gamer’s equivalent of the DB Cooper legend. There are so many hints and speculation over something that could be there. Whether or not the game really exists or not, the real question is whether or not anything produced could live up to the hype thats built up over nearly a decade or waiting.

Half-Life 3 – the game that doesn’t existHints, teasing tweets and feverish speculation, the wait for Valve’s next version of the game is like an online soap opera. By Rich Stant

An ambitious and rather impressive project to say the least. At some point though, you have to ask yourself if it would just be easier to build a 3rd person game engine in the likeness of Starcraft, outside of the Starcraft II client, rather than modding a real time strategy engine to function as a 3rd person game. A good comparison to this would be the popular Warcraft 3 mod Dota, and the stand alone game Dota2.

When you’re constructing a mod for a game, you’re limiting yourself to that game,