Planewalker, indie designers of the “coming whenever” RPG The Broken Hourglass, have been pretty quiet lately. So it was good to see an interview with producer Jason Compton over at gamebanshee.

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Just yesterday, in Independent Thoughts, I looked at the growing number of indie companies, and wondered how many would survive over time. If you thought that was scary, how about anyone - anyone at all - being able to build their own MMOG?

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Indie news seems to be all around the ‘net lately. There’s Coyote’s blog posts, Mark Morris on bit-tech about staying independent, an interview with Jeff Vogel on gamebanshee, more reviews (finally) of Eschalon, etc. So unless all this is just because of the post-holiday lull, it looks like better times for indie games, right? Maybe. Maybe not.

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Desperation is the feeling that comes around when there’s nothing new to play. So I thought, why not an old game? One I hadn’t played in years? Why not Quake?

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We’re all much too familiar with the finger-pointing at games being “overly violent”. Now they’re coming under fire in a big way for another reason: overweight kids.

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Subject: Mokor saves the day…

[You recall that Mokor is now uniting the four tribes on his way to saving the world.]

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Thought I’d wind up the week on a light note. At least, I hope it’s a light note.

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A few days back, Fox News hosted a show that gave Mass Effect, a highly-praised and rated game, a black eye. The show was rife with inaccuracies (I’m being polite here), in particular from author Cooper Lawrence, who admitted she hadn’t played the game. EA sent a letter to Fox demanding an apology and corrections.

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