If you’re becoming very attached to your game character and persona (y’know, far more than you should but who am I to judge?), maybe you’d be interested in commissioning an original digital portrait for a forum sig or as a gift for your neglected loved ones: Douglas Shuler Commissioned Art. Additional samples of his work are in the gallery. (btw, he wants to be paid in real life dollars, not Warcraft gold.)
The evolution of the videogame controller: Sock Master’s Video Game Controller Family Tree. It’s all about the thumbs.
Because I’m so skilled at finding strange and unusual internet stuff, I ran into this Flickr photo set recently of Cory Doctorow’s (Boing Boing) visit to Sony Online Entertainment in March 2005. At first, I was wondering if anyone can walk into SOE and start handling these original sketches for Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online (wtf!), then I did a little profile digging and all became clear. Interesting: The original EverQuest servers, now retired, and the buttass ugly furniture in the SOE reception area.