Kotaku is reposting news that Impulse and Gamersgate have followed suit. Source is apparently here: http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/51233/Stardocks-Impulse-Service-Refuses-To-Sell-Modern-Warfare-2-As-Does-Gamersgate
It's interesting how badly we react to selling out on play when compared to how we sell out in other ways. We can spend years of our lives flipping burgers as a wage slave, flagrantly ignore and do nothing about prostitution, close our eyes to hunger and genocide, but shit, ...
I think RTS games can have a fair bit more language that cover tactics and strategy. Here's an example list of build orders in Starcraft: http://starcraft.burningblade.org/zerg/build.html I think names are important for their ability to communicate ideas and concepts quickly to the player. It'd be an interesting experiment to take ...
I definitely agree with what you say about mind games. I'm looking at this from the perspective of how much enjoyment a losing player can get out of the game. While a poor player has the same potential to win as a veteran, after a certain point, he's just randomly ...
