GameSpy: Will Wright Presents Spore… and a New Way to Think About Games
Cool writeup of a demo of Spore, a new game from Sim City creator Will Wright that lets you play God. You start creating microbes that eventually evolve, at your bidding, into space-faring cultures that can teraform others worlds. Seems really cool.
The Best Guilds Names You’ve Seen
Long discussion thread on the World of Warcraft boards about amusing guild names.
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MAKE: Blog: Flickr upload from MMORPGs
Interesting concept for a button inside video games that would let you automatically tag and upload screenshots to flickr. I can see guilds having fun with this when they go on big boss runs.
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Transcript of the keynote given by Raph Koster at the 2005 Game Developers Conference about why games are important and what they do for us socially.
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Green Day awakens boy from coma
A boy who was in a coma for a few weeks woke up when his mom played his favorite album, American Idiot. The band promised to send him some free stuff.
An artist who worked on World of Warcraft died while they were developing the game. If you go to a mountain in northern Barrens you can see an in-game memorial to him.
Improv Everywhere Mission: McDonald’s Bathroom Attendant
Some guys set up a bathroom attendant station in a McDonald’s, claiming it was a pilot program that Corporate was trying out. This one gets extra creepy points, too, for having a camera in a bathroom.
Genus d’Zombie: Manifestations of Zombieism in Contemporary Culture
Gabe runs down the various types of zombies from the past year.