Posts Tagged ‘free games’

Dungeon Runners’ High - Addiction and Reward-Based Behavior in Online Role-Playing Games

By Dale • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Weekly Feature

Dungeon Runners is about as fun as a drug addiction. It’s an unabashedly grindy dungeon crawler that owes its roots to Diablo while desperately trying to ripoff World of Warcraft. As far as freely available, massively multi-player, online role-playing games without subscriptions go, it’s better than a lot of what I’ve played in the past, but it’s still not great. It’s meager; it’s mediocre. It does manage to rise above the average in a few areas, however: the game’s terrific sense of humor can be found nearly everywhere from the naming of weapons to the kind of non-player characters you meet. But then other areas are rather low: I constantly keep a helmet on my level six warrior — not for the armor points, but because he’s so ugly that I can’t stand to look at his pouting grimace anymore. So, why do I keep playing?



Software Piracy and The South American Gaming Industry: How Independent Developers Are Fighting Back

By Dale • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Weekly Feature

In the United States, when we think of software piracy on such a broad level that it might actually destroy an industry, usually our focus shifts to countries in Asia. We think of countries such as: Japan, China, India, etc. — we hardly ever consider South America. Mostly, this is simply due to our own ignorance and the limited amount of media exposure we get in this country to other areas of the world, but now, in the age of the Internet, that’s hardly an excuse not to see what’s going on.



Clever time-sink: Take a virtual road trip on the Thule Trail!

By Dale • Feb 3rd, 2008 • Category: Side Quests

Thinking of taking a road trip soon? Don’t have the time or money to get away but desperately wish you did? Well, why not go on a virtual road trip, instead?
In “Thule Trail” you’ll have to brave nasty weather, car problems, and crazy drifters as you travel over 2000 miles to the Atlantis [...]