barely fatal

… before the “holiday season” hits and the first AAA titles come burning through the atmosphere to crush all smaller competition. Some have been delayed and hey, let’s face it, nobody can play everything anyway.

It doesn’t look as if Jumpgate Evolution would be released, or even reach open beta status, any time soon. We FS have been waiting on it for years, and most of us would have been happy only to get the same old game with nicer graphics and a bigger community. Of course a modern, large-scale MMO that pays off financially for the developers needs a little more and apparently it’s turned out to be a little too much for Netdevil. I guess they cannot afford another failure like Auto Assault… They post news, visit shows like GamesCom and PAX, … but the momentum is waning. Though an MMO would totally ruin my schedule, I’d still like to see this fly, and succeed.

Oh any if they wait too long it’s gonna look old again – like last time. It’s pretty enough now and runs on smaller boxes but the hardware market never stops evolving.

Battlefield 2 is back. It’s the one old game everyone we got on board can play on their computers. We have yet to get more than 3 people together, but if we can get this started we could have some cool games. We even have your own server. Downloading the countless mods again took forever. And then finding out that most of them are dead was a disappointment, though not really a surprise. I think I’ll settle with AIX.

What else … I saw GI Joe and I wish I hadn’t … I wanna see District 9, like, real bad. Gotta talk a workmate into it tomorrow.