Born to a pair of world-famous spelunkers, I was orphaned at the tender age of 34 when my parents were tragically (and messily) eaten by a horde of grues. I suddenly found myself thrust out into the "Real World." I promptly punched the remote and turned on Jeopardy! instead.
A rough few years ensued, during which I jumped from job to job... trainer for a two-bit flea circus here.... political consultant there... anything for a quick buck. At last I settled into the job I was meant for: making the woman of my dreams happy. Fortunately, she works longer hours than I do, so I have time to write little bits of advice and opinion for the underinformed, the argumentative, and those born as curious and discriminating as I fancy myself to be.
Let me start out by mentioning the strange decision to rename this game at the last minute. After months of advertising it as Cypher: The Sequel to Traitors Gate, The Adventure Company chose to release it as simply Traitors Gate 2. Presumably, this was to assure that buyers associated it with the previous game, a […]
One of my favorite movies when I was a child was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. There is a scene in the film where the candy magnate leads his group of tourists into the “chocolate room,” a huge lush garden where every plant, tree and stone is edible. Now, imagine that you are the […]
When last we left you, Constant Reader, my girlfriend and I had just completed the single-player offline portion of URU and were eagerly awaiting our invitation to join the online “Prologue.” Well, we waited. Then we waited some more. I decided to spend some time reading and slogged through Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (all […]
(Editor’s Note: A massively multiplayer game is difficult to properly review in its early stages. Therefore, we’ve decided to cover Uru a bit differently: our reviewer will be sharing his impressions of both the single-player and multiplayer portions of the game in a series of three hands-on diary articles, and then once the product has […]