Review: Red Dead Redemption 148
Window Pain 223
Suspension of Disbelief 507
Power To the Pop-Ups 204
Image Searchers Snared By Malware 144
Review: Mass Effect 2 331
Universal, Pay Those EFFing Lawyers 335
Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs 135
Yes, Google Does De-List Pages; But When? 133
Review: Eufloria 121
The Big Questions 229
Review: Dragon Age: Origins 452
An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment 316
Ultrasurf Easily Blocked, But So What? 74
Review: Champions Online 203
Champions Online is Cryptic Studios' latest entry into the Superhero MMORPG genre, representing several years of advancement in game design both for Cryptic and for MMOs as a whole. It's no longer a new field, and there are now certain expectations about what an MMO should contain, and how it should play. Two major factors to a new game's success or failure are the standards they embrace and do well, and the ones they reject and do differently. Champions Online succeeds at adapting many established concepts, while still setting themselves apart from the typical swords & sorcery backdrop. Read on for the rest of my thoughts.
IE Should Use Google's Malware List 109
Blizzard Answers Your Questions and More 368
Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up 297
Last year's Blizzcon was tremendously popular. So much so that their servers were unable to handle the strain of fans competing for 15,000 available tickets. This year, Blizzard was more prepared; they made an additional 5,000 tickets available and set up a queue so that the transaction servers weren't overwhelmed. CEO Mike Morhaime said during the keynote address that if you weren't able to get into the queue within 30 seconds of its opening, the tickets were sold out before your turn came. Tens of thousands more chose to order the pay-per-view coverage, demonstrating the extraordinary enthusiasm felt for Blizzard's games. Their presentations didn't disappoint. Read on for details on the status of StarCraft II, Diablo III, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and the new Battle.net. It's divided into sections by game in case you're only interested in one or two of them.