The
RIFT interview on Gaming Heaven is an article-format conversation with Michael McGhee of Trion Worlds discussing
RIFT, Trion's just-launched MMORPG. The conversation centers on the game's launch, and the issues that new massively multiplayer games must overcome. Michael also discusses plans for the future:
"Well we still have a huge list of things we'd like to implement in future - world events being one of them - and some of the features we have already implemented even I never thought would make it in. I mean, I never thought we'd be able to put invasions on the road and taking over quest hubs, you never do that, you never stop the player from questing and levelling, that's dumb, that is a rule. But what we realised was that if you put enemies on the road the player doesn't always have to fight them, sometimes he needs to take a new road like the hobbit from Lord of The Rings. It's simple features like that which create a completely different type of atmosphere in-game and keep things fresh for players."
The
Good Old Games interview on Adventure Classic Gaming chats with Lukasz Kukawski, the PR and Marketing Manager at
GOG.com, CD Projekt's home of DRM-free good old games. They discuss the service's history, what sets it apart from other digital distributors, their definition of a classic game, how digital distribution has helped revive classic gaming, the challenges of secure game rights, whether there are games they can't get to work on modern computers, piracy, DRM, their
recent re-launch PR misfire, what the future holds, and more.
Here's this week's list of the ten bestselling games on
Steam, Valve's digital delivery service:
- Dragon Age II
- Ubisoft Weekend Deal Pack
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
- Portal 2
- RIFT
- Crysis 2
- Bulletstorm
- Homefront
- Magicka
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
I couldn't figure out why the news was talking so much about St. Patrick's Day yesterday, as it is still almost two weeks off. Today I saw a report that clarified that yesterday the St. Patrick's parade was held in Hoboken, NJ, just across the river from Manhattan. Presumably this was to avoid competing with NYC's parade, but most of the stories focused on Hoboken's zero-tolerance policy towards unruly drunken behavior, which goes right along with my thinking that one day is more than sufficient to celebrate an occasion centered around, well, unruly drunken behavior. Speaking of unruly drunken behavior, this all coincides with Mardi Gras celebrations getting underway, which are also a little early, but less-so, as Shrove Tuesday is just two days off. Oh well, as long as everyone is safe and careful, Erin go Bragh, chere!
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