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Gaming Portal Announced By Wizards of the Coast
1up has coverage of a strange development: a gaming portal focused on tabletop and strategy games. The site is slated to be a editorial/community site focusing on Avalon Hill and Wizards products, as well as potentially offering a venue for independent PC games. "Wizards of the Coast is eager to stress that Gleemax is not about pimping their own products, so much as it is about strengthening the overall culture of gaming as a whole. It's a husbandry approach; by creating a fertile ground where the various tribes of gaming can meet and greet, they hope to build interest (and presumably sales) through the basic principle of cultivating a strong player community." The whole thing is something of an odd move for the company, and for some insight into the launch Greg Kostikiyan at the Games*Design*Art*Culture blog clarifies the reality of Gleemax as an indie game publisher. You'd think he would look at the site as competition for his own Manifesto Games, but he seems fairly philosophical about it.
Gleemax makes you feel like it's 72 degrees in your head... all the time!
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That reminds me of the time in 1983 that someone told me pen-and-paper was dead while playing a D&D cartridge on a Mattel Aquarius. Or the late 1980s when MUDs and BBS games got popular. Or that time in 1993 when a bunch of us were playing Ultima 7 for DOS with the speech pack, and someone said it beat pen-and-paper. Or five years later when Ultima went online for the first time, ready to kill off tabletop gaming forever. Or that time in 1998 when Baldur's Gate came out and people declared it the death of tabletop. Or 2001 with the surge of interest in LARP signaled the death of tabletop. Or 2004 with the advent of WoW and how it was poised to kill off tabletop. Etc..
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MMO killed the PnP star.
MMO killed the PnP star.
In my mind and in my parent's basement,
We can't hit res we've gone too far.
Net tubes came and broke your heart,
So put all the blame on Al Goooooore.