Tag: Vampire: The Masquerade

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Let’s mourn the death of World of Darkness with these leaked screenshots

A fresh batch of leaked screens from CCP’s failed vampire MMO World of Darkness groped their way out of the darkness into the obliterating light of the Internet just as the game withered to ash. The long troubled game by EVE Online creators’ Atlanta studio had been in the works for 8 years before it was canceled 2 weeks ago. The public never saw much of the what the game looked nor played like, but judging from these shots, the game was pretty far along and involved plenty of goth-y vampire necking. Reading the words “press E to seduce” gives…
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Newest update establishes Vampire: The Masquerade as cult-classic-of-the-forever

After ten years of werewolf attacks on urbane vampire covens, the little known but much-loved RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines has received a healthy update. Patch 9.0 (yes, 9.0!) adds a bountiful number of improvements, despite the fact that the developer Troika officially went out of business not soon after its release, and despite the fact that the game very much looks like a PC game from the early aughts.  The way I see it, this puts it in the same ship with cult films like The Big Lebowski and El Topo, works that initially underwhelmed mainstream audiences but struck…
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Florida Republican nerd-shamed for LARPing as a vampire

Among the qualities I look for in a candidate, live action role-playing as a vampire straight out of a White Wolf game doesn’t make the list. But maybe it should. On second thought, it probably shouldn’t. But that’s the hobby of a conservative GOP candidate in Florida. Jake Rush’s political opposition has dug up some dirt about his LARPing history, when he ran with a group called Covenant of the Poisoned Absinthe, who hosts games such as Vampire: The Masquerade. Yes, this is another prominent example of games being treated as something to be embarrassed of. No one should have…