November 2008 Entries

Why I'm playing Eve

There's a meme going around CrazyKinux's blog pack asking why you play. Since he just said something very true on Twitter about what I'm currently doing I thought a blog post is in order to clarify it. Tonight is Friday night, and I am not playing because I'm busy coding something for my corporation website. It's something that not a lot of other games let you do, because it uses data from inside of Eve itself. Yes, Eve has an API. It all started with tools like EveMon. Applications that scraped HTML from the eve website and showed you what you...

What's an MMO? I can't remember.

I used to play MMOs, but lately I've just been playing console games in a desperate attempt to keep up with them all as hundreds of must play games are released. It's not funny, I've had to give up sleeping! Saints Row 2 I completed the plot, but still have 40% of the content to go. I'll talk about this on the show this week, but my summary is very good. I prefer it to the last GTA because it's more fun. Fable 2 I've played through to a certain point twice now before getting the...