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****WARNING: this post contains SPOILERS for the Comtessa storyline in Echo Bazaar, found in Ladybones Road at Watchful 25+. READ NO FURTHER if you don't want to know what happens. SRSLY.****   The other day, EBZ's writing team sat down over breakfast in a posh central London hotel spent a da... [More]

This, I like - Fullbright's post on Legitimizing Violence. A response to the violence-in-games issue which doesn't reduce to denial or hand-wringing. I think his solution is a good heuristic. You could trim it further: he says 'an individual with a name and a face', and then is forced to add a cave... [More]

I used to teach English as a foreign language. Language teaching in the 90s (and now, for all I know) was very big on 'communication gap exercises'. The idea is: if you're reciting sentences just to practice the form, you're not actually using the language for communication, so you don't engage with... [More]

Paul: that tag line me: 'mostly beige mostly text'? me: what's wrong with it? Paul: let me put it this way. The beige is not a feature Paul: also, self deprecation hard to pull off in this context me: point Paul: would it be too cheeky to make our tag line "building better worlds... [More]

Hi folks. We've got a big wadge of content coming your way this Friday. We're just putting the finishing touches to the next episode of Ambition: Bag a Legend (of which more in a bit) and Nigel's brand new Cheesemonger stories are ready to launch too. We've been adding new content all week: You'... [More]

Fallen London is full of secrets. Full, full, full. You may already have guessed the price that was paid for the city, or the original names of the streets of Spite. If you've got far enough into the game, you may know who the Topsy King used to be, or what the Correspondence is. If you've been payi... [More]

Nigel talks about how well his experience as a writer & player of tabletop roleplaying games fits with writing content for Echo Bazaar. I ought to admit right now that I don't have the first clue what a tabletop game even looks like. I'm a classicist; Echo Bazaar for me has always been (amo... [More]

  There are great steaming puddings of content coming. Students of a certain eye-watering alphabet will be gaining academic respectability, of a sort. Connections will be more rewarding than they have been. And  there’s a struggle brewing in Fallen London. A battle in the shadows th... [More]

We announced earlier in the week that we'd be allowing the option of authentication on Echo Bazaar through Facebook. It caused a bit of a fuss among some of our players. Lucky for some little-known MMORPG company, who chose to sneak out their own mildly controversial change under cover of our announ... [More]

Last week we introduced a new face to Fallen London, a Mr Benjamin Villein of the Ministry of Public Decency. Like all our major characters, he immediately discovered the joys of social media and began kicking up a fuss, which culminated in a bitter flame-war with Huffam, our resident journalist,... [More]