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Carnival of Gamers

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Brain Salad Surgery The February edition of the monthly Carnival of Gamers is up and open for business at Slashdot Games.

Zonk of Slashdot: ‘The Carnival of Gamers’ [is] a roving blog event that collects together some blog entries on gaming written during the previous month. The entries are all self-submitted, and cover everything from the legalities of online currency to the state of videogame reviews. This is a great opportunity to check out some sites you may not have had the chance to read before, and expand your thinking on gaming in society today.

Next month’s Karn-evil will be at VirginWorlds on March 2nd.

You will only get that if you’re cool like me and Slashdot commenter winkydink.

List of video games considered the worst ever

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Wikipedia’s List of video games considered the worst ever seems like a project that has “Grief Me” written all over it. Worst, best, good, bad, is all so subjective with games — for every game classified as Worst, there’s sure to be a group of players that would call it Best. Of additional interest here, however, are examples of bad design and features that could kill a game: non-intuitive anything, bad graphics, buggy pathing, bad acting, didn’t invite Foton into the beta, etc.

Romero’s id

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GameSpot has a news blurb about John Romero, he of id and Doom fame, and a new (as yet unnamed) MMO that he’s developing. Here’s the announcement on CVG and here’s Romero’s announcement on his own blog.

Romero:

Many people already knew I was making an MMO for about the past 4-5 months but evidently there are a lot more who didn’t know as evidenced by the news blurbs that blasted out today after PC ZONE magazine announced it online.

And the torrent of diarrhea from people’s posts on the net about it confirms just how out-of-date most people’s knowledge of my history is after the id or Ion era. Bunch of L4/\/\3R5!!11one

Ya, really. How the hell did we miss this exciting news that might happen in two or three years?

(What the fuck does he think, we’re all Googling John Romero every day?)

But hey, that IS exciting news and now that I’m onboard, I look forward to trying his MMO in a few years … if it materializes.