Like most of the internet community, I haven't played WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne in a while. I last played competitively (read: seriously) on the East Coast about a year ago in an arranged 3 man team with two buddies from University. I was pleasantly surprised to find this update to the game when I went back and played on battle.net last week.It occurred to me that FT was really the last game I was actually holding onto the disc for. The reason was that because battle.net required updates frequently enough to make a no-cd fix more inconvenient than not. But apparently even Blizzard has seen the light now. The use of a disc for anything beyond installation is truly a dead concept nowadays and I couldn't be happier dancing on its grave.
Normally I'm wary of anything that WIRED's gaming department starts fawning over, but the Experimental Gaming Project has many good hours of fun awaiting you. This screenshot is from one of the more popular games, Tower of Goo. Though the phrase "experimental" seems to mean that many of these things aren't really games. As opposed to actually breaking new ground in terms of gameplay, they're just offering you something that you haven't seen before. That said, whatever these are, they're amusing.
Tower of Goo, for example, I take as an allegory for humanity. You try to build goo up as high as possible, but inevitably it will wonkily collapse...leaving a taller and sturdier base for you to once again start building up from. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Until next time.
Until next time
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