How would a plant love someone?

How would a plant love someone? With this year’s release of Guild Wars 2, we were introduced to the sylvari, a species born of plants whose entire design is predicated on flora of some sort or another–from their leafy hair

I Have Had A Vision: The MMORPG of the future

Let us agree on one thing: fuck yellow exclamation points. You’ve seen them – they lurk above the heads of countless NPCs in countless MMORPGs, signposting quests.  I remember the first time I encountered them, in Lord of the Rings

The Secret World looks spooky

One of my favorite running video game subplots for this year is the battle for domination between Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic. NC Soft versus EA, a battle of titans in the run around and grind endlessly field

The Friday Post: Smugleafgate

You can say Smugleaf isn’t the greatest Pokemon of all time, but you’d be wrong. Look at him. He’s so smug. His eye even looks like a monocle. Basically, he is the king of Pokemon. Things were posted this week,

Community-Driven Gameplay

As I gear up towards learning about game design, I’ve been thinking a lot about what sorts of games I’d like to make. To this end, I started thinking about games that I like–RPGs and multiplayer games like Brawl or