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Entries from July 2002

A Push Too Far

July 16th, 2002 · No Comments

ABC and LivePlanet will be offering the world’s second major commercial TV-mmoe in the form of Push, Nevada, premiering on September 12th, 2002. What’s distinctive about Push, Nevada is not the names behind it, or the storyline - it’s the seven figure prize it’s offering to viewers.

Tags: arg · tv

DX2

July 3rd, 2002 · 2 Comments

I recently wrote a post in ARGN about the question of interactivity in mmoe-type games. Basically, I say that interactivity with respect to altering the story is overrated.
Warren Spector, the designer of Thief and Deus Ex, both groundbreaking games when it comes to player interactivity, said in Edge that he wanted Deus Ex 2 to [...]

Tags: arg · games

Food

July 1st, 2002 · Comments Off

There’s an interesting thing about food in America. I was expecting food to be quite a bit cheaper here than in the UK. Instead, the prices are essentially the same, but you end up getting an incredible amount more, maybe double the portions in the UK. So this means you end up with the somewhat [...]

Tags: food · shopping · usa