Michael Shellenberger: Europeans Do Not Respect Americans
During World War 2, Americans helped to liberate the nations that Germany had subjugated. Much of Europe was destroyed and a reduced to pile of smoking rubble. The Allied nations …
Shocking Observations about India’s Low Trust Society
American society has become increasingly suspicious of Indian culture in recent years due to scandals involving Indian companies abusing the H-1B visa system. I came across a post today that …
The Power of Eucharistic Adoration Over Satan
Eucharistic Adoration is a devotional practice within the Catholic Church where the faithful come to worship and meditate in the presence of the Eucharist, which is believed to be the …
Is Daybreak Games Creative Director Listing for EverQuest a Ghost Job Listing?
Loyal EverQuest fans, brace yourselves for another dose of bitter disappointment. For over 18 months, Daybreak Game Company has dangled a Creative Director job for Darkpaw Games like a carrot …
The Fall of RPGs: How Feminism Undermined a Male-Dominated Genre
Role-playing games (RPGs) have long been a bastion of fantasy escapism, providing players with immersive worlds built on medieval European traditions. These games offered heroic adventures, grand quests, and clearly …
The Vision™: Brad McQuaid’s Dream for EverQuest and the MMORPG Genre
The year 2024 A.D. was an important milestone in MMORPG History. EverQuest, the brainchild of Brad McQuaid and John Smedley had somehow survived for a quarter of a century. Over …
12 Things Amazon Games Should Do to Ensure Their Lord of the Rings MMORPG Stays True to Tolkien
If Amazon Games plays their cards right, they could see their upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG dethrone Blizzard’s aging giant, World of Warcraft. WoW is showing its age, not …
ChatGPT’s Analysis of Enad Global 7’s Stewardship of EverQuest
For almost 20 years, I have been writing articles about MMORPG design. There is one particular intellectual property that I’m very much interested in: EverQuest. Released in 1999, EQ was …
Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios Abandons the MMO Genre and Announces Cooperative PVP Game Arkheron
Hell has frozen over it seems. After 8 years of stealth development, Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios has finally released the name of its upcoming video game for the PC. It …
The War on Role-Playing: How Representation Ideology Undermines Immersive Gaming
For the past 30 years, the notion of representation has been incrementally injected into the cultural bloodstream. Even though nobody ever voted for representation ideology, it has crept into all …
Biggest story of the century! The Smart Phone design: Stolen by, not invented by Apple/Google.
Big claims require big evidence. In A.D. 2000: I invented the Smart Phone. I James Wilbur Sager III am the official Father of the Smartphone. In 2005 Apple came to …
Why the Future of Gaming Depends on Niche Communities
Game development has devolved into a brutal zero-sum battle for the only resource that truly matters: time. Forget the astronomical revenue figures paraded around by industry execs as if they …