For almost three years now I've been living a double life. By day I'm Jeffrey Lee, mild-mannered computer programmer. But by night, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Oursulaert. I watched corpses glitter in the dark near the Tanoo gate. I've killed miners with their ore cans, I've killed great philosophers, proud young warriors and revolutionaries. I have killed the good, the evil, the weak and the beautiful. I have done this in the service of the Minmatar Republic, and for the billions of enslaved Matari everywhere. I am a Minmatar freedom fighter, and I play EVE Online.
EVE Online is an MMORPG. But it is an MMORPG like no other. It dared to go where few had gone before - into space - and to do it in ways none had imagined before. Compared to World of Warcraft, the player base is tiny - with only a hundred thousand subscribers - but the community is immense. Many people liken it to Elite, for in EVE you are free to do whatever you wish - be it mining, trading, pirate hunting, or being a pirate yourself. So, strap yourself into your goo filled pod and join me as we take a closer look at the game.
Read this and write your own. And you thought the Sony riots were bad.
Bored at work in the last few days up to Christmas? If so, I recommend trying out Mission In Snowdriftland, a thorougly charming and polished platform game made by Nintendo. The music in particular is amazingly good, and I hope that Nintendo create more web-based games of this quality, especially if they're playable on the Wii's Opera Browser which, incidentally, is being released in demo form this Friday.
My Wii review on The Iconbar, the former RISC OS community website which has widened its remit to computing in general. I cover the console and Wii Sports in detail, but I don't have much to say about Wii Play, because I'm crap at it.
Enjoy!
I also don't usually post things without at least a little commentary, but again, this is a special occasion:
Gunstar Heroes has been added to Nintendo's Virtual Console for the Wii. JUMP IN THE AIR AND LET OUT A GUTTURAL BATTLE CRY.
If you don't plan on owning any other Virtual Console game, get this one.You won't be disappointed.
I've said everything that needs to be said.
