Hyping the Hype: From Conan to Warhammer

The great Sun Tzu, father of modern journalism, once said in his treasured writings: start with a Mime and you can’t go wrong. Of course I just made that up, and I assure you that the WoW-killing Mime is not yet with us. We’ll leave mimes and memes to rest for a moment, and venture […]

Bad MMORPG launch? Fine. It’s really par for the course!

The whole Age of Conan debacle did more than just highlight that the entire staff at Funcom probably shouldn’t be entrusted to mail a letter, let alone produce a multi-million dollar MMORPG. It also resurrected an old MMORPG community meme that has been repeated 1000s of times in forums, blogs and podcasts. What […]