Jesper Bylund

The next step in web development has been claimed to be the semantic web, sounds great but I think we're a few steps away from that.

Games have been under attack for a long time from gamers and game media for being unoriginal.

I started a guild in WAR yesterday.

The cloud based computing term is thrown around a lot on the web these days.

The highly anticipated MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is finally launched and I have, as most of you, started playing.

I've just played spore into the start of the space stage, I really like it.

I usually like to hold politics out of this blog, it's a blog about games primarily and politics have only very little to do with the development of interactive entertainment.

I'm having some problems with google chrome: Some javascript web applications freeze for a second or two now and again.

Everyone is discussing it but I still have to mention the fact.Google has just released Google Chrome, a web browser with some interesting features.

Sorry for the lack of updates.

As you've probably noticed my blog is moved and redesigned (not final yet) because I needed to speed up my site updates.

Here is a short thought that you might want to consider expressing next time someone near you doesn't understand just how significant games are as a medium.

Don't forget to celebrate LoL day today over at icanhascheezeburger.com!

Warhammer Online has finally received a release date: September 19.Which gives it a months head start on the next expansion for World of Warcraft in November.

This post is a step outside my normal boundaries but when I though about this I knew I had to share.

Most articles and books about games give a certain skewed image of our audience, the gamers.I can't claim to know what most developers believe but from interviews and articles by some of them I get the feeling that we're looking at a polarized view of game

Made a quick vid av Grin's Stockholm studio today and got to play some Bionic Commando.

Google has justed started a new service called Knol.

There are almost always discussions about the latest hardship in any business.

Has anyone tried this?

I've just started playing Gears of War again, for the PC this time.

E3 is on it's way and the big three have shown their cards.

I just finished the book The Long Tail about how markets are shifting from focusing solely on hits to including the niches that might not sell huge volumes.

I think there is a huge drought of easy fun games on the market.

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If you haven't seen the new killzone trailer.

Most digital industries are claiming piracy is bad, that its hurting sales and destroying the marketplace.But so far all we've actually seen in a decline in album sales and recently game developers fleeing from the PC platform.

I just tried using google maps mobile with my sony-ericsson w960i.

Every once in a while you get an idea that you feel will change the world because the idea is so great.

I just started playing Age of Conan and I must say I'm impressed.

I just spent an evening with WiiFit and I have to admit that my hype level was way higher then my real life impression.

"I've finally finished my first Zelda game!"

I had an idea a few years ago about why societies fail.

As you might have noticed I've redesigned the website yet again.

A few of my friends from Grin visited the University last week.

I must admit that I haven't played all the way through Bioshock.

Last week Tycho over at Penny Arcade had a write up about co-op and the amount of games out there that just have partially or completely broken co-op or none at all.

For my Bachelors thesis I'm writing a design document for an expansion of an MMO and reporting on how I can msot effectively communicate that design to others.

If you've missed it by some chance web 2.0 applications are taking over the world.

As I posted about earlier the web 2.0 applications are forerunners to a new type of game development market that is opening up online.

A lot of reviewers and gamers are starting to complain about a problem that was obvous over a year ago.

Blizzard VP says that players would feel cheated if they introduced micropayments in World of Warcraft.

So, after encouragement from Ole Herbjørnsen at Funcom, I've started playing World of Warcraft again.

According to Kotakuit seems like Duke Nukem Forever will actually launch.

After the recent Fox/EA debacle I have been thinking just how far from the mainstream media the games industry really is.

When I saw the Fox broadcast starring Geoff Keighley, a utter quack and a very biased reporter I was outraged.

Yes it's true, EA has stepped up and defended Bioware's Mass Effect (a quality game like few others) and requested that Fox corrects their slanderous lies about their product.

I’ve had a few comments asking about game design jargon.

A new blog format and away we go...This is my fourth attempt to find a blog or content management system that I can actually use on my own site.

This is a repost of a earlier blog from a previous system.