From Phage’s office and under the most cloaked of circumstances, Dymir and Phage were whisked by subordinates to a helipad atop the tallest skyscraper the Nation had to offer. High above the map and from a seat in a million-dollar stealth helicopter he beheld the chaos from a bird’s eye view. A series of gliders…
Post Game + 3-1 – NPC Life
The Hub, that which united the world in a shared space which took none at all. What it did take, however, was energy. While it was young, it was easy to explain how the developers kept the servers going. The swell of users after those initial years promised frequent outages, lag, and a slew of…
Post Game + 2-3: Criminal
The Nation – the zone designed to look most like the outside world, was a crowded mess full of normalcy and strife. Here, those from reality gathered to meet loved ones virtually and exercise a more intimate form of what social media used to be. The capital city in the heart of the zone was…
Post-Game +: The Spire Incident
What a wonderful time to have been born. Old enough to have seen the digital revolution roll over the timeline’s horizon but young enough to feast upon the ripest of its fruit. It took social media almost two decades to settle properly into the mortal lexicon. It was a given, taken for granted, and when…
Gamer Quest 2019
WARNING: GAMING RELATED RANT TO FOLLOW, PROBABLY NOT ENGLISH TO MOST Ok, so I’m reading specs of the next generation of consoles (PS5 and XBOX 2) and yeah great, same exponential increase in blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda. Yep, I’m gonna be a sceptical asshole and scoff at everything until I play it…
A History of (Digital) Violence
Gamer. Even the label makes a self-diagnosed addict like me roll my eyes. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and even though I wasn’t a fan of grunge, I identified with the ‘don’t label me’ sentiments. Gaming is one of my favorite things to do, and I started as a wee-ish lad back…
This Earth: A Fantasy World 