Free Video Games for Bloggers: review one of Binary Moon’s downloadable games, post a review (either positive or negative) on ye olde blog, receive a full version of the game for free. I was going to pine, in verse, for this business model to spread to all games in the future, but it occurs to me that this IS the business model for the adver-zines.
From the Warcraft forums, a dwarf hunter complains about the price of celebrity connected to his much coveted, crazy-rare, CURSED Baron Rivendare’s Mount. (Warcraft noobs: Here’s the Baron’s Deathcharger mount) He explains: “I don’t mind the whispers, but being told about 20-30 times a day that I am hated is not so fun. Of course they mean it in jest, as in, ‘OMG is that the barons mount? I hate u! U lucky SOB, grats’. This hurts me and I sometimes cry myself to sleep.” (Furl archive to use when live thread is dead. Update: Never mind Furl, it’s dead too.)
Something Awful has been hitting the high notes lately with their Art of Warcraft columns. I haven’t been following SA as closely as I did, oh, 4 years ago. Fortunately, emailer Shin has been doing the work for me and tipped me to SA’s The 1st Annual “Best of Being a Dickhead” Awards Ceremony, an anecdote showcase of players being dickheads to other players. You will also enjoy the latest Art of Warcraft, Epic Mounts: Love in Warcraft (part 1), an experiment in the economies of cybersex. (includes screenshots!) The author, Caylen “Abraham” Burroughs, concluded the experiment by warning two of her/his subjects that they might want to get character name changes. Yeah. Ya think?