Even as I venture to Canada or Hyboria, the Nerfbat Forums continue to thrive. There are still great threads about massively multiplayer games and other related goodness, and since AoC has come out, Draegan has been lass of an abrasive jerkface. Let’s take a look at some of the most recent discussions that have taken place… Continue Reading »

“This s*%t comes in waves.” A quote from a coworker is the best way to put it. I’m looking for inspiration for topics to talk about on Nerfbat. While I’ve been playing a lot of Age of Conan lately, it usually doesn’t take me too long to write up a decent post here. But, I need something to talk about. Thanks for any ideas you fire my way.

I’m off to Miramichi, New Brunswick for the Jalloo Festival early tomorrow morning. I’ll be on a couple panels there and it should be a pretty good time. If you’re up that way, come to the festival and check it out. Hopefully after I get back Danuser and I can put together our next podcast and I’ll post some juicy goodness on the site. See you in a few!

While I’ve been spending all my free time in Age of Conan on the Tyranny server killing fools, the forums have continued to march on here at Nerfbat. Instead of writing a compelling post or podcast (I blame Danuser… and he’s going out of town today so it’ll be a while before the next shows up), I’ll go ahead and rely on others to do it for me. Here’s some of the latest from the Nerfbat Forums… Continue Reading »

So the reason I’ve been quiet all week is… Age of Conan! Yep, it came out, and it’s better than I expected. I wanted to wait to get a good impression of the game before I posted anything about it. I’ll probably stick with it for a while. If you want to play on a PvP server, I’m Luckbad (level 20 Conqueror) on Tyranny. I’m with the Nocturne guild, which is a great group of folks that I played LotRO with.

The discussions about massively multiplayer games continue on the Nerfbat Forums. We’ve built ourselves a solid little community here. We are now up to 307 members, 265 topics, and 4244 posts. Here are some of the recent discussions that didn’t have to do with MafiaMatrix: Continue Reading »

I know a lot of people are having issues seeing Nerfbat from different computers/browsers. I have no idea why. I’ll probably end up backing up the database and website, doing a clean install, and pushing all the data back. Since that will likely take a long friggin’ time to do successfully, it probably won’t happen for at least a few days. No new posts until then, either. Update: It should work now. Post a comment if it didn’t work for you in the past day or two but does now.

The massively multiplayer online game discussion continues on the Nerfbat Forums. We now have 293 members, 238 topics, and 3799 posts! Here are some of the recent threads that you may want to check out from the past week or so: Continue Reading »

I’ve actually been working on the podcast, believe it or not. I’ve decided to include a segment in which I answer reader questions about design, myself, the site, or the podcast. No, I won’t answer anything about 38 Studios or “Copernicus.” You can send me an email, contact me on the forums, or just reply to this thread with a question and I might answer it in the podcast. Continue Reading »

No, I’m not talking about “Copernicus” from 38 Studios. I’m announcing a whole different beast entirely, and many of us at the company are working on it. We discovered that our licenses for Unreal and BigWorld extend to any number of games and apply even to individual members of the company, so I and 9 others have formed Mad Alchemist Laboratories to make a smaller scale project on the side. Continue Reading »