Archive for April, 2007
« Previous EntriesRegistering Trademarks for Guild Names?
Sunday, April 29th, 2007I was hopping about the internet as I worked on my gaming group’s website when I discovered This article
Basically, this guild named The Syndicate who’s been playing for a little over ten years (started on UO now play WoW) got a trademark on their name and claims because of this that no other gaming groups […]
Censorship of Videogames
Friday, April 27th, 2007Earlier today I attended a Xfire debate on censorship of videogames. As usual, they had an interesting cast of guests at the debate.They were:California State Senator Leland YeeHal Malpin from the ECADennis McCauley from Gamepolitics.comRuss Pitts from Escapist MagazineDan Isett from the Parents Television CouncilAnd Henry Lowood from Stanford University.
A prettty “reputable” group of people […]
Gunster is gone?
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Being caught up with my homework lately, I haven’t been doing much MMOing besides taking care of my crew/flag on Puzzle Pirates. So, I was surprised when I went to look up gunster earlier today only to discover that it was gone.This is indeed a great loss. It wasn’t a very well known game, but […]
The importance of program design (Again)
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007Now, this was a lesson I thought I’d learned. That is, until last week when we were given an assignment in CS 120 in which we did not have to program, but merely to design it. I scoffed, thinking this assignment would be easy. I wrote up what I thought to be a good […]
EA Teams with TV People to Make Virtual Me
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007EA and reality TV show maker Endemol have made an announcement that they’re going to be working together to make a hybrid videogame/TV show program called Virtual Me. It will allow users to create and customize little virtual avatars of themselves and then besides the usual chitchat with whoever random people you find, you can […]
In search of tag clouds
Sunday, April 15th, 2007I’ve been reading recently about Search Engine Optimization and increasing your page rank. Like most bloggers, I’d to make my blog accessible to the widest possible number of people. This is hard to do when you’re buried at the bottom of google.
In my reading, I saw a lot of this speaking of your inbound/outbound link […]