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On 06/18/2018 at 04:14 PM,
by daftman
I have never played EVE Online and seeing how time consuming it is, I'm sure I never will. All the same, I recently read through Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of the game. While there are fictional AI empires in the game, the book covers the struggles of the purely human factions. And it's surprisingly engaging! These might as well be real world events. And it was cool to see the scale of things escalate from skirmishes of a few dozen ships to epic battles that involved thousands of ships, every one piloted by an actual person in the real world. Backstabbings and betrayals, blockades and political machinations, life obligatons and deadly apathy—it was quite engrossing! If you fall in the middle of a Venn diagram of interest in history and video games, you really ought to read this book.
On 02/27/2018 at 10:56 PM,
by daftman
As I come to the home stretch of Blog-a-Day, I was distressed to discover that Three Wonders, released in 1991, was three games! Time has caught up with me and I'm typing this up the night it needs to be posted. Three games? Ack! I don't have time for this!
