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D&D and OGL

I imagine most people know what D&D is, although I bet some people don’t know what OGL is. After all until I started looking into it I really didn’t either. OGL, or Open Game License, is one of two programs that Wizards of the Coast launched when they launched 3rd edition D&D. The other program…Continue readingD&D and OGL

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Zelda: Twilight Princess

I know that it is kind of sad that though I’ve had Zelda for a year and a half now and still I hadn’t finished it. In fact, I had only gone through about two of the dungeons so far. That’s why with this downtime and my computer down, I decided to finally work on…Continue readingZelda: Twilight Princess

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Hardware

Hard Drive Woes

A couple weeks ago I started to get the Blue Screen of Death randomly. I started by thinking it might be a recently installed program so I uninstalled everything that I had added, I then tried system restore, and after that didn’t work I tried taking out the Memory because that is a common problem.Continue readingHard Drive Woes

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WiiWare

I read this article on Wired yesterday and it got me thinking about the upcoming WiiWare application. The basic premise of the article is essentially that WiiWare isn’t that great because the pricing on some games is screwed up. I think he’s making the judgement that the main problem with this pricing is that there…Continue readingWiiWare

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The problem with the Wii control

Let me preface this post with the fact that I like the Wii remote. I think it is the fresh change in the gaming world that was much needed to bring some innovation into what has become drab games. And many games do use the control very very well.Continue readingThe problem with the Wii control

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MMO area levels

One of my bigger pet peeves with MMOs is how they divvy up where people play. The general problem that developers have had is that they need  to protect newer players to the game. They can’t very well have a level 500 dragon coming in to kill a level 1 newb. If this happened, the…Continue readingMMO area levels