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Is Choice a Problem For Android? 361
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Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions 52
Book Review: How Google Tests Software 44
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X-Men: First Class 226
Jboss AS 5 Performance Tuning 45
Review: Champions Online 203
Champions Online is Cryptic Studios' latest entry into the Superhero MMORPG genre, representing several years of advancement in game design both for Cryptic and for MMOs as a whole. It's no longer a new field, and there are now certain expectations about what an MMO should contain, and how it should play. Two major factors to a new game's success or failure are the standards they embrace and do well, and the ones they reject and do differently. Champions Online succeeds at adapting many established concepts, while still setting themselves apart from the typical swords & sorcery backdrop. Read on for the rest of my thoughts.