Posted by Nelson Williams | Dec 1, 2008 | News |
Back in the misty days before the surface of the earth cooled, my larval self once took a header off the top of a staircase and cratered teeth-first into a tile floor. I lost several pints of blood and two teeth that day (they...
Read MorePosted by Nelson Williams | Dec 1, 2008 | News |
Right now I’m going to divide the lot of you into two camps, those who love Chrono Trigger, and the rest of you who were squealing in diapers when the Super Nintendo was the law of the land. There really is no third party,...
Read MorePosted by Nelson Williams | Nov 30, 2008 | News |
The high-stress environment of the Iraq occupation, combined with longer tours of duty, has taken a deep toll on US soldiers. One grim result of these unfortunate conditions is the suicide rate among personnel, which has jumped...
Read MorePosted by Nelson Williams | Nov 30, 2008 | News |
CNet News reports that Nintendo’s Wii console and the Wii Fit game package have once again proven their godlike power over consumers with a seductive song this weekend that climaxed in over 3,100 Wiis sold on eBay alone in...
Read MorePosted by Nelson Williams | Nov 29, 2008 | News, Reviews |
The MMORPG Age of Conan was released by Funcom right around the middle of May in 2008, probably to avoid getting steam-rollered and plowed under by the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for everyone’s favourite fantasy juggernaut. In less than a month of blistering sales fueled by desperate gamers trying to escape the pull of Warcraft, Age of Conan had gathered up over 700,000 subscribers in its muscled and well-oiled arms.
Six months later Funcom was quietly merging servers and banning anyone who talked about subscription numbers on their forums. Age of Conan is now, for all practical purposes, a walking and half-naked corpse shambling toward a dark horizon. So what happened? How did Age of Conan die?
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