As most of you know, I’ve been doing work for the BBC for a decade or so, but I’ve been a staunch supporter and fan of the Corporation since long before I ever had any connection to it, and I get quite nervous – and more than a little angry – when the knives come out for the BBC, as they very much have been of late. It’s particularly annoying since the Beeb, as a public service broadcaster which […]
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( Update: Hey, Minecraft Hell fans! The Halloween update has launched, and I now have a video of my first adventures there! ) Notch has just released this picture of the new Hell Dimension which will be part of Minecraft’s Halloween update. We already knew that Hell is a parallel dimension to the main Minecraft world that you will be somehow able to “step sideways” into, and back. It has the property that a single square there is equivalent to […] It has dropped a little off the radar, so let’s catch up with how the transfer of European DDO accounts from Codemasters to Turbine is going. Essentially, it isn’t. On August 19th, 2010, the European Dungeons and Dragons Online servers were shut down, meaning that the characters that European players have been playing since launch were lost to us. We are still waiting for our characters to be transferred, as promised, to the US servers. What will happen to […] I completely failed to do much of any interest in this episode. I chat a little bit about the upcoming Halloween expansion, and for some reason I keep calling gravel “granite”, which does nothing to make me any more intelligible. Sometimes, when the gaming news is uninteresting, I begin writing a post telling my fellow gaming bloggers to stop writing posts that tell other bloggers what or how to write. Within it I also protest how everyone else always generalises wildly. While doing that I make sure to throw some disparaging comments at “gamers”, even though both I and the readers fall into that category. Of course, I’m talking about those “other” gamers, not us. Fortunately, my brain always shuts […] Just a quick post. I was chatting about Ravenloft on Twitter, and I happened to mention that I owned a lifesized Strahd von Zarovich that used to sit next to my gaming table as I terrorised my players in an AD&D campaign each week. Now, you can’t go around making such incredible claims without providing some sort of proof. Thus it is that the Cardboard Count has returned from his exile in an upstairs cupboard, and once again roams my […] It’s an important question that just occurred to me while I was contemplating the universe in the bath. This song pre-dates Minecraft by several years, but there are a number of striking similarities. Most notably that both Notch, creator of Minecraft, and the Zoology Dragon invent animals THAT ARE MADE OF CUBES!!! They have even both worked on the Cubification of Cows. Cow. Cube. Cowuube. Perhaps it would be best if we take the Zoology Dragon’s warnings […] |
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