I remember the thoughts that ran through my head when I first started reading pre-release info about Star Wars Galaxies, my first step into the MMORPG world.  Before this I was an FPS ‘stat’ whore and competition shooter.  I only played first person shooters, mostly in the Delta Force series from Novalogic back in those …

Getting back to the MMORPG Cookie Cutter topic, to keep MMORPG’s from getting stale and give developers a fresh perspective on things gamers want, I started thinking about some interesting ways to bone up on features in new and even some current MMORPG titles.  Now, these aren’t necessarily a major …

If you’re looking for a bit of fun this weekend I’ve found something you may be interested in that’s off the beaten path.  The staff of writers, leads and columnists over at Massively.com are hosting their first get together being sponsored by …

I recently read a few posts at various other sites talking about how all the MMORPG’s coming out as of late have been pretty well cookie cutter games.  In other words, the same game repackaged with a few ‘stand out’ features.  Like AoC for example, a lot of people are comparing that to WoW in …

I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for help from people experiencing problems with the black screen issue in Age of Conan in response to my post on the issue.  But now I’ve also been getting a lot of complaints of people freezing or locking up sometime around the boat scene or …

Once again Massively delivers a unique insight to the world of warfare in their series in which they talk about the dynamics of attacking keeps and fortresses in the upcoming MMO Warhammer Online.  Some of the highlights of their coverage is the siege weapons themselves.  There are four classes of siege weapons …

Awhile back, I went to visit my brother who plays a lot more console games than I do and he had rented Mass Effect for the weekend from Blockbuster. I’m not big on game pads but he coaxed me into trying it out, since it’s more fun than just watching him play I gave it …

Cornered Rat software is extending an invitation to all past players of WWIIOL to help them celebrate their 7th year online.  Starting June 6th, they will receive a week of free online play to check out how far the game has come since …

InfinityWard has released the next big patch for their Call of Duty 4 game for the PC.  Patch 1.6 features a few bug fixes and some much needed updates to the killcam. But what was even more needed is fresh content for this title and InfinityWard delivers …

Gaute Godager over at Funcom wrote a letter to the community today discussing some of the upcoming changes to Age of Conan along with some additions and fixes.  The first bit of good news is that Funcom seems pretty dedicated to making this as smooth of a launch as possible.  There have already been some …