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I installed a new main system drive last week, a Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB to replace the aging SATA 1.0 74GB Raptor that has been in my development box since 2005. The new drive is three times faster, and lots bigger. So, to celebrate all that empty space I started dragging out old games [...]

I finally completed and deployed the Silverlight 2 game I have been working on for the last few days. I don’t think it will win any awards for game design, but it allowed me to explore a pretty wide swath of Microsoft’s second generation Flash competitor. I like the idea of Silverlight, for the simple [...]

This post is about an online fantasy role playing game called Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. It is developed and operated by Mythic, now a division of Electronic Arts. I’ve been playing it for about a month now, on the Iron Rock server, with a bunch of former Dark Age gaming buddies. You would think [...]