Ama­zon is rec­om­mend­ing Dia­blo 3 for me. After spend­ing 12–16 hours every day for months test­ing Dia­blo when I worked for Bliz­zard, I really never want to see Dia­blo any­thing ever again. Ever!

I was about ready to order Mass Effect, a com­puter RPG from Bioware, when I read the reviews on Amazon.com and dis­cov­ered that it had EA’s DRM infest­ing it. That’s the sec­ond sale EA has lost that way.

Hope­fully the upcom­ing Star Wars MMORPG that Bioware is devel­op­ing will be pub­lished by LucasArts and not EA. They did an excel­lent job on Knights of the Old Repub­lic, and if they don’t let their pub­lisher sab­o­tage the sale I will almost cer­tainly buy the new game when it comes out.

City of Heroes super­hero MMO comes to Mac. NCsoft is open­ing one of its mas­sively mul­ti­player online (MMO) game fran­chises, City of Heroes, to the Mac. The com­pany has used TransGaming’s Cider engine, which enables the subscription-based game to oper­ate on Intel-based Macs. Beta test­ing is expected to get under­way this week.… [The Mac­in­tosh News Net­work]

I’ve been play­ing this game on the PC since about a month after it came out. It still has the ubiq­ui­tous class-and-level sys­tem, but between the wide vari­ety of power com­bi­na­tions and the excel­lent cos­tume cre­ator (which is almost worth the price all by itself) the prob­lem of cookie cut­ter char­ac­ters com­mon to such sys­tems is not present.