From the monthly archives: November 2005

Half-Real is fully published

By On 29/11/2005 ·

Jesper‘s undoubtably seminal book Half-Real has arrived, with a nice companion web-site.
Get it. Waste no time.

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Long time, no siege

By On 16/11/2005 ·

Dread is a large word, but I had anticipated the arrival of AoE III with some worry. Hearing strategy game developers of the game to replace my favourite AoE II discuss how they had spent a year getting the water just right tends to inspire such feelings. We’d all heard about fancy [...]

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Girl worry

By On 04/11/2005 ·

I think it’s pretty fascinating how certain memes and myths regarding gaming travel around the globe, die out for a while only to respawn briefly or more massively.
Used to be that a lot of people would express worry that gaming gave boys an advantage since it would introduce them to computers. [...]

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Distant Sound of Trumpets indeed…

By On 01/11/2005 ·

To: Jonas Heide Smith(jonas@autofire.dk)
Your order for Age Of Empires III has been posted.

Please allow 3-5 days delivery.

Update: Things are not going as planned (my stats).

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