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No, Sir, Your Virtual World Is Nothing But A Virtual Soundstage

No, Sir, Your Virtual World Is Nothing But A Virtual Soundstage

Games are doing my head in. Specifically MMOs. When MMOs started to really hit it big, to crawl out of the shackles of “cult status” and start to rake in the big bucks, I was one of those kids that every market loves. I was young, middle class and with parents affluent enough to loan me the dosh to buy into anything that the marketing gurus persuaded me that I wanted. For MMOs, that was Anarchy Online, followed by Star…

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GFWL fails again.

GFWL fails again.

You may remember from the ether that Greg Wild has previously reviewed the last two addons for Fallout 3.  He’s managed to get himself clogged up with something in the real world, exams or whatever, so I volunteered to do the Broken Steel review.  Ordinarily we wouldn’t announce that we are going to review something, because it’s rather pointless, but this is a special occasion. That occasion is Microsoft’s complete inability to make a bloody content delivery system that works….

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