38 Studios’ own Curt Schilling appears on the latest episode of the Jace Hall Show. He talks a little tiny bit about our game, codenamed “Copernicus,” without revealing anything (that you did or didn’t know)… although I saw a couple pieces of concept art in there. Unfortunately for all of you, I’m not in the show anywhere, so you can keep waiting for that glorious moment.

In response to a very short-winded post over at Broken Toys, I decided to dig up a post I made before I was a game developer, way back when Nerfbat wasn’t really a blog. You can see the article in its original form on Archive.org, but I’ll go ahead and copy it here below the fold because at some point that will no longer exist. Some of you surely aren’t familiar with the ultimate piece of vaporware, Dawn, so this won’t even be amusing to you. Sorry. Continue Reading »

I really want to make a questionnaire that determines how much of a griefer you are. Or, put another way, how sociable you are. This would be a series of questions about what you would do in a particular situation, probably in the context of a PvE server then a PvP server. An example question follows after the break. Continue Reading »

I’ve added a few MMO commentary sites to my link list and feed reader. So far, they’ve all shown great promise, and I look forward to reading more from each of them. Mahogany Finish is an already post-prolific blog by Adam Tiler. The Ramblings of JoBildo comes from the mind of Ten Ton Hammer’s William Murphy. The Wandering Rogue is a promising new site by Andrew Young. Finally, The Many Relms of Relmstein is a site I’ve read for a long time, but just realized I didn’t yet have in my links section. Enjoy the sites, and let me know if I’ve missed any good new MMO blogs.

The United States of America has been independent for 232 years now. Awesome. Enjoy the BBQs, champagne, fireworks (be careful with ‘em), and all the other festivities that go along with the 4th of July in the US. I have 5 in-laws over to celebrate!

This month’s local game developer meeting (open to everyone!) promises to be a good one. I’ll have to see if I can come even though I have family out. The authors of Grand Theft Childhood will be presenting! The gathering will take place at The Skellig in Waltham on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 7:00PM. More info on the Boston Post Mortem website.

Two addendums to the latest podcast… First, we know there has been little to no meat in the podcasts so far. Now that we have our podcast legs, the next one will have some good stuff in it. Second, we left off the donation plea at the end! Thanks again to Genda, jason, Cyanbane, Nybling, and Nocte for donating! Find out how to donate to the podcast here.

There’s a stigma about bards. People seem to picture them as buffoons with funny hats, high-pitched singing voices, and lutes. Only one of those is really true in my view of them; the lute. I get made fun of a lot for enjoying bards more than any other class, and I suppose it’s worth articulating why that is the case, so perhaps a few people will see why they’re so awesome. Continue Reading »

The third episode of “Massive Guys on Massive Games” has finally hit the shelves! Within this glorious podcast, you can learn where the heck hosts Ryan “Blackguard” Shwayder and Steve “Moorgard” Danuser have been and what games they’ve been playing since the second episode. Continue Reading »

THQ, EA, White Wolf, Disney, Marvel, DC. What do all of these have in common? Thom Ang! He’s joined us at 38 Studios as Director of Art, where we’ll be welcoming him with… an open invitation to play some ultimate frisbee with us! Oh, and to do some rockin’ art directing. If you’re looking for all the (not even slightly) gory details, head over to the 38 Studios website for more.