BrokenToys - Lum

It’s official: per CFO Eric Brown, during an earnings conference call, SWTOR is making a lot of money, with 1.7m subscribers (which Brown went to an unusual effort to quantify correctly as a mix of paying customers and customers with … Continue reading →

Everquest 1 going free-to-play. With the announcement, the frozen-in-amber separate EQMac server is also going away, which disappointed the people who preferred EQ frozen in amber.    

Nothing more than rumor at this point. Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TheKevinDent/status/158454172239409152 Kotaku detailing above leak: http://kotaku.com/5876253/thq-wipes-out-games-planned-for-2014-to-ready-itself-for-sale-says-insider The Vigil-developed THQ-published MMO has had a very long and by all accounts troubled development history but was closing in on eventual release. However it’s rapidly becoming clear … Continue reading →

A Congressman stops by to post in your official forums

tl;dr: If you’re looking for The Banned Of Lum the Mad Tom Chick forum it’s over here. Quarter to Three is a forum I have posted on quite often over the past decade (yes, that long). It’s a forum loosely … Continue reading →

10: Catherine Catherine was a game whose core gameplay was awful (essentially a very twiddly platform game). And you didn’t care because the game itself was so compelling. Japan is a society that takes adult games seriously (and by that … Continue reading →

It was on an unnamed battle station, set up by Republic spies, where I fell from grace. You see, up until that point, I had seen myself as an honorable man. Of course there was chaos and atrocity all around, … Continue reading →

Welcome to BattleTags, otherwise known as “how every other unified IM service works”. A BattleTag is a unified, player-chosen nickname that will identify you across all of Battle.net – in Blizzard Entertainment games, on our websites, and in our community … Continue reading →

(This is a post in response to Jon Jones, smArtist for hire’s technolusty blog post from yesterday.) Hi, I’m Scott, I’m a technoweenie. I try to keep everything pretty simple… my primary “work” machine is my Macbook Pro. I’ve used … Continue reading →

Bobby Kotick shows the class, grace and market acumen for which he is so justly renowned, when commenting on an imminent competitor for his corporation’s cash cow: “We’ve been in business with Lucas for a long time and the economics … Continue reading →

Every year I make crazy predictions that fail miserably.  A little less then a year after that I review them so you can see my humility as someone who can’t predict industry trends at all. Here’s how I did last … Continue reading →

In case earlier stories about the Facebook game maker didn’t turn Mark Pincus into enough of a moustache-twirling villain from a silent movie, this Wall Street Journal story should finish the job adeptly. Citing industry sources, The Wall Street Journal reported … Continue reading →

News here – instead of subscriber servers and a free-to-play “Everquest II Extended” server, the entire game is going free-to-play. Last year, we created a successful, but separate, “free to play” service for EQII called “EverQuest II: Extended” (EQ2X). However, … Continue reading →

What he said.

Buy a 12-month subscription to World of Warcraft, get Diablo 3 for free. Also, surprising no one whatsoever, WoW is getting a new expansion. Level 90 pandas are involved.

  You can buy Richard Garriott’s castle for only $4.1 million! Situated high on a level 3.99ac hilltop overlooking downtown & a 3,000ac preserve, this home offers amazing architectural details & intrigue plus an “off the grid” energy realm. I … Continue reading →

Ouch. At CCP we have been working hard to expand the gaming landscape by applying the knowledge and expertise we’ve built up with EVE Online to create a new experience within the EVE Universe in DUST 514, as well as … Continue reading →

I’ve moved on from my position at NCsoft and am now a design lead with these guys. Hopefully will have more to share on what I’m working on soon. For now, just leave the LUM SOLD OUT notes right here!