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From an anonymous source close to the company, I’ve found myself in possession of the “Infocom Drive” — a complete backup of Infocom’s shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I’ve ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included: design documents, email archives, employee phone numbers, sales figures, internal meeting notes, corporate newsletters, and the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made.

Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org

Wow, this is crazy. All of the same issues I’ve heard about having in game companies, from a game company almost twenty years ago. What have we learned? Why don’t we change?

I basically just wanted to accept the fact that what we used to know as PvP in WoW is no longer around, and say a final farewell to the fun times we had during those days.

This is not to say I don’t like Arena’s, because I do, I just feel that all of the PvP in wow has become it’s own game, only to be done in certain areas, under certain circumstances, with specific rules, etc etc. It is no longer part of the world that makes up Warcraft like it used to be.

I hope everyone enjoys this, I had a very fun time going to some of the places of the old and recalling some large scale battles that just don’t happen anymore.

This actually gave me a few ‘awww’ moments, it was surprisingly touching, considering the subject matter. I.e. For being about killing people in a game so ruthlessly, it’s looked back on so fondly. It’s really a different game now, I’m really looking forward to some new games out there that will hopefully recreate the ‘world pvp’ experience that we had back in the day.

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THIS IS FANTASTIC. TRY THIS OUT.

http://playthisthing.com/rom-check-fail

Take the protagonist, with related verbs, of every major 80s hit, along with the enemies, the art assets, and the midi signature. Put them on separate, concentric roulettes, and spin. Spin every few seconds. Try to win.

I had basically an identical idea for a Flash game but this is much more ambitious and perfect. Give it a shot.

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This is fantastic on many levels of fantastic.

HI SAM

So a few months ago, I heard in mumbling that there was some sort of “Internet humor convention” called LOLcon or something. After some futile research I came up with nothing…

But I was just presented with the link of links this morning. Behold ROFLCon,

basically an ‘internet meme convention.’ I can’t believe it… haha. Look at the list of confirmed guests.

Lastly, this particular activity sums up how this is going to be an amazing and weird event that I can’t afford to miss…

8-? — Party of the Internet 2008 — Every internet meme, ever. In one room. Partying out. Promise: they will be cranking that soulja boy.

I am going, tickets and hotel are booked. See you there.