http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com This website gathers data for various First Person Shooter games for PCs, and then build graphics with those numbers. This brings no answers, just questions. Where do we go from here? Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:59:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Users may have noticed that, as of lately, some graphics are showing some pretty odd results, with certain games shooting high up on the chart or some other games disappearing. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a sign of the apocalypse, that the website or its database has been fucked ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2008/07/06/do-not-adjust-your-web-set/ Major Nelson - of the Xbox Team - has posted a few lists with the most popular games for Live, the online system used on the Microsoft consoles. The list is ranked by number of unique users (or sales, in the case of Live Arcade titles) and covers the entire ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2008/01/08/xbox-live-top-games-of-2007/ Since a few visitors have noticed Call of Duty 4 hasn't shown up on the site's graphs, here's a small update on the situation. Just to make it clear, the game is indeed doing very well online. If you check the ServerSpy or Game-monitor statistics, you'll see it's doing well enough ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2008/01/02/on-call-of-duty-4s-absensce/ Three months after the release of id Software and Splash Damage's Enemy Territory:Quake Wars, how well is it doing online? The first thing noticeable, somewhat curiously, is that the game didn't manage to attract any noticeable slice of the current Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory audience - and that's the game that, gameplay and ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2008/01/01/enemy-territory-quake-wars-3-months-later/ Slightly more noisy this year, here's the new special graph, in commemoration of 3 years of data gathering and graph generation. Only the most major titles are drawn. http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2007/12/24/three-year-special/ I have finally changed the way some of the graphics are generated on the website: now, certain mods are treated as full games and listed on the games graphics. This move was needed because many full-fledged games based on the HL2 engine - games such as TF2, Counter-Strike:Source, Day of Defeat:Source, ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2007/12/24/certain-mods-now-listed-as-retail-games/ In addition to other Half-life 2: Episode 2 statistics (released a few weeks ago), Valve now has updated their Game and Player Statistics page and added some Team Fortress 2 Gameplay Stats with some cool information such as class, weapon and map breakdown in a number of different parameters. There's ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2007/12/08/valve-releases-team-fortress-2-statistics/ Valve - developers of games Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress, among others - have recently updated their game statistics page. They added some very nifty gameplay statistics for Half-Life:Episode 2 and, more recently, they've also started a new edition of their player hardware survey which automatically gathers hardware and software ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2007/11/19/new-steam-statistics/ If this October's (legendary) release of TF2 (see how well it's doing here) and ET:QW (follow it here) didn't drain all the productivity you might have left, feel free to make use of your stash of sick days at work as the demo for UT3 has just been released (it'll ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2007/10/12/run-to-the-hills-its-multiplayer-first-person-shooter-invasion/ The Team Fortress 2 beta - available to those that preordered Valve's Orange Box of games through Steam - started a week ago, even if slightly later than expected. How well did it do online? Pretty well, if you look at the Half-Life 2 numbers or graphics. It managed to beat ... http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/2007/09/25/team-fortress-2-beta-7-days-later/