Weekend Report – Slow Gaming

As the title of the post makes obvious, this was a very slow gaming weekend.  I messed around a bit in Call of Duty 4, working toward getting my gold AK-47 (I have no idea why I want one) and spent an hour or so in World of Warcraft leveling up my mage to level …



MMORPG: Should PVP be based on Skill or Gear?

Oh the great debates we could have!  I hear people complaining in World of Warcraft battlegrounds all the time when a twink kills them.  They complain because he is uber powerful with all that extra gear!  Being that I’m usually playing a twink myself the complaints go in one ear and out the other without …

MMORPG End Game: To Raid or Not to Raid

I was just reading an article by Kevin Murnane over at Massively about greed.  Kevin’s right in that there is a lot of greed in MMO’s – friends stabbing friends in the back for epic loot and the like.  With that in mind I started reflecting on end game content and …

WAR on the Grind

Warhammer Online is definitely garnering more and more of my attention lately with the let down of Age of Conan and the repetition of World of Warcraft making me look for new horizons.  Yesterday afternoon I was reading some Ten Ton Hammer interviews with WAR developer Mark Jacobs about the …

WoW Twink Guide: 49 Warrior

WoW Twink Guide: 49 Feral Druid

After playing my twinks in World of Warcraft over the weekend and getting asked a horde of questions about …

WAR For The Win!

I just finished reading a post from Syp over at Waaagh about his predictions on how Warhammer Online will fair in the MMO market and what he thinks are the keys to getting it there.  Syp lists 10 points that he believes will influence the outcome …

Age of Conan Subscription Cancelled

Well, that feels like a waste of $90.  I have this fancy box, this cool leather map and a game account I’m no longer going to play – at least not in the near future.  Age of Conan for me was a fun break away from the normal MMORPG in it’s unique style of combat …

GameZig – “The Forum”

Hello ever faithful readers!  Just wanted to take a second to announce the launch of GameZig’s latest project:  GameZig “The Forum”.  Hope you don’t mind me stealing my title idea from SpaceBalls!  Heh, anyway – with all the visitors we get here and the questions I get in emails about computer …

Battlefield Online MMO

Dice and Electronic Arts are sitting on a virtual gold mine with the battlefield series as a possible candidate for the next big MMO.  Overall the vast majority of gamer’s fall into one of three main categories: MMORPG, FPS and Strategy.  With a title like the Battlefield series that originated in the FPS and already …