Gaming Links
Links are piling up all over the place (due to time spent on DF posts), so let’s clear out a few right now.There are some interesting articles in The Escapist this week. The first, by Russ Pitts, features an interview with an OGM (Online Guerilla Marketer, or “dickhead”). These are the people who post in forums, ostensibly as one of us, who are actually marketing employees of the companies putting out games so shitty that they have to hire people to promote them in forums.
As an example, Bethesda would have no need to hire an OGM for Oblivion.
Here’s the link: OGM.
The second, by Allen Varney, is an article about “feelies,” or all those great things we used to get in game boxes besides the game discs and manual. I still have my ankh from Ultima IV. That article is here.
Sirius sent me a link to a very funny article in Wired about Microsoft.
Well, funny in a way.
While it might take Microsoft a month or more to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, do you know how long it took them to issue a patch when their Windows Media DRM was cracked?
Three days.
Hell, I’m surprised it took them that long. The article is here.
Oh, and that patch was compromised in about a day.
Blake Senn sent in a link to Rob Pardo’s keynote address at the Austin Gaming Conference. Actually, it’s a link to Raph Koster’s notes on Rob Pardo’s address, but they’re extremely thorough and very interesting, and you can read them here.
Skylander let me know that Bovine Conspiracy has started a wiki called “The Moo Guide” to keep track of release dates for upcoming PC and console games. It’s a great idea, very nicely designed, and you can find it here: The Moo Guide.
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