Fairly lucid article on the future of XBox Live over at CNN/Money:
Trouble ahead for Xbox Live?
Having XBox Live at this point is like having a kick-arse home theater system and no DVD’s to play. We’re relegated to watching Gilligan’s Island reruns all day. Gates and Co. better do something, and soon, if they’re going to save this service.

Stumbled across this open-source BattleTech-esque game, MegaMek. Gak says “MegaMek is an unofficial, online version of the Classic BattleTech board game.” I’m posting this from work so don’t have time to really dig into it, but figured I’d better blog it before I forgot about it.

I decided to give Asheron’s Call 2 yet another try tonight, for reasons having nothing to do with the game, really. Just needed a hassle-free escape, and it was installed and ready to go.

Anyway, I’m surprised to say, I really had fun. I started a brand new character and managed to make him not-horrible (recipe: spikey anime hair, kinda blueish, no facial hair, and thinned down enough to kill that puffed out chest look). He isn’t really my style, but at least I don’t cringe while playing him.

Turns out they’ve added a lot of low level content. More quests, and, get this, Continue reading “More on AC2”