http://www.pkurflax.org We can taste the jackpot. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So now that the Heavy Pack has been released to the rabid Team Fortress 2 masses for consumption, our collective Thought Train has once again pulled into everyone's favorite stop, Speculation Station. What's the next Pack going to be? Will it be for your class? Are they finally going to ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2008/08/29/i-pk-ur-numbers-booking-the-next-tf2-pack/ Raph Koster had an interesting post up today with a few random statistics and numbers he's found browsing things over the last while. After taking issue with one of the numbers he posted from Time Magazine (damn you, Time), I decided that it might be neat to toss up a ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2008/06/26/i-pk-ur-numbers/ So Nexon USA has released an open beta of the latest product it plans to inflict upon our shores: Mabinogi. As it was advertised as being more 'world-y' than most traditional MMOGs, I decided to take it for a spin this morning in the hopes that I could grow as ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2008/03/22/strangers-in-a-strange-land-mabinogi/ This year, I am once again attending the GDC as a Conference Associate, so today was spent doing various preparatory tasks at the Moscone Center. Well, to be fair, the bulk of the day was taken up by one particularly draining task: tote bag stuffing. Frankly, I'm sure the conference ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2008/02/18/gdc-2008-day-0/ So, lately, in between rounds of Team Fortress 2, I've been piecing my way through The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. It's a decent game overall, but on no less than two occasions now, I've come across areas of the game that lead me to believe that Hyrule is in ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2007/10/16/hyrule-a-market-hungry-for-franchises/ I look a lot cooler than I remember. http://www.pkurflax.org/2007/09/27/kingdom-rediscovered/ Since the rather inflammatory 'talk' regarding RMT and microtransactions at the AGDC last week, a lot of opinions and opinion-like substances on the topic have been tossed 'round the blogosphere. Now, given that my employer has been a major(?) Western player in 'microtransactions' for the last two and half years ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2007/09/17/i-might-be-wrong-microtransactions-rmt-and-dips/ ...I just upgraded Wordpress. And installed Spam Karma. Oh, and switched over to a less broken theme. But you're not reading anyway, are you? ARE YOU?! Ha, expect more content shortly. http://www.pkurflax.org/2007/09/17/toss-down-some-flares/ In a recent post on Scott Jennings' blog, Lum and his many avid readers have done a bang-up job of hitting upon most of the factors necessary to including successful and fun PvP into your (probably hypothetical) MMOG. In a thinly-veiled attempt at increasing this blog's roll of content, however, ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2007/02/21/baking-muffins-to-crush/ So, after about a year and a half, someone left a comment on our 'About Us' post, which means that at least one person other than Mori or myself has read this site. Also keeping in mind that pkurflax.org has cost me about $200 in hosting fees since it was ... http://www.pkurflax.org/2007/02/04/the-next-generation-for-community-features-is-right-now/