Sunday cleanup

I often get mail from people who want me to link to their website / blog / game. I always take the time to look at that site, and sometimes the decision is easy: If the site is nice and relevant to the subject of MMORPGs, I post a short article with a link. If it is a commercial site selling gold or guides, I don't post a link. But then I'm still stuck with a bunch of posts which fall somewhere in between. They aren't terribly relevant to me or to what I imagine are the interests of my readers. But they are nice sites or games, just a bit borderline to my usual scope. As I had a bunch of such posts recently, I decided to go for a compromise: I'm doing this one big post that cleans up my mailbox and links to each of those sites with just a short paragraph saying what it is. So lets start:

If you are interested in Backgammon, 1 On 1 Backgammon might be the site for you. It has lots of news and strategy articles on backgammon. Unfortunately it appears to be sponsored by commercial backgammon sites enticing you to play online for money, so be careful what links you click on there.

Writing about the games you play, like I do, is not for everyone. Some people would prefer to just film their in-game adventure. WeGame is there to help, and is now in public beta. They offer a tool that helps you to create a video from your game, and you can upload the resulting game videos to their site. The YouTube for gamers, so to say.

But maybe you want to blog, just not all alone on a classic blog site like Blogger? MMODiary.com offers you a space to blog, plus a community of other MMO bloggers to exchange with. It's a combined MMO blog and social network site.

Beyond Protocol is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game (MMORTS). Not quite my cup of tea, but maybe you like RTS games and prefer them in a massively multiplayer environment. The game plays in a Sci Fi environment, where you build a space empire and control fleets of space ships battling other players.

Last mail in my mailbox wasn't even asking for a link. It was just the guys from Mythos, Flagship's free MMO, telling me they are expanding their beta. And as I am already beta tester, I can send out three invitations. So if you are interested in Mythos, which is a simple, but fun game, the first three people asking me for a beta invite will receive one. As reward for having read this post unto the end. :) [EDIT: all invites gone, you can stop asking]