New 'Best Story' QOTD at Gamespot

In their weekly editorial bit, Gamespot asks this week what games have the best stories. There are some games out there with some pretty mind boggling plots, so having a Wing Commander title in there would be arguable of course (that's the point of the QOTD though). However Wing Commander certainly ranks higher than some of the games in the assortment that they've provided us with this week. And for Nut-Boy's sake.. they even give The Sims a nod for allowing you to create your own imaginary story. So if you disagree with their picks, they ask you to email them a letter. It may be printed next week. Thanks to Asterix.

So although EverQuest doesn't provide you with any historical background, you make the story evolve as you write it... ...you're also creating a large interactive story that encompasses all the other players you might interact with.

I'd also say that The Sims has a similar open structure, which allows you to create your own home and family - then you are able to write a story based on lived experiences.

New mirc 5.8 Released

Khaled has done it again! New version 5.8 of the irc client mirc was just released and, as usual, is full of tons of amazing bug fixes and new features. There's a sorta oddish new way logs can be named, there's a weird new beep that goes through your sound card instead of PC speaker, and the program now natively supports playing mp3s in a channel (although we couldn't exactly get that to work right). And it's a new mirc, so that's good enough reason for it to be time for all those who live on irc to upgrade. See you in #Wingnut.

New Non-WC Telep Novel On The Way Out

Peter Telep has been up to the same old thing pretty much, and his next movie-to-novel publication is Red Planet. I think I saw a poster for this movie. Red Planet is scheduled to be published October 3, but there is still no definite word on Pilgrim Truth, but we'll see what happens. You can find more information at the official site of Peter Telep here.