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Ubisoft has confirmed that the latest installment in the Prince of Persia series is set to drop on December 2, 2008.  The latest installment in the classic action/adventure/platformer series will be available on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.  As is becoming more the case, there will be a different version for the DS …

 
Mythic Entertainment released a video today showing off what some of the Realm vs Realm and Siege warfare action is going to look like …

Too Human will be hitting store shelves sometime late next month, but as most of you know there is now a demo available on Xbox Live. How is it you may ask? Well it depends …

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You see the ads for these two game economy wreckers all the time - power leveling and gold farming.  Hell you probably see one right now - wink wink.

World of Warcraft is a good example of how powerleveling and gold farming damage a games economy.  Now don’t get me wrong, farming in a game for …

In my ever growing quest to see some changes take place in our fast-becoming stale MMORPG template I’m going to publish more and more ideas. Out of the box thinking is what it will take to spice up upcoming titles and give them something different from the World of Warcraft mold so many games seem to be …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Massively just ran a story on WAR: How to Conquer a Capital City in which they explain the end game scenario that Realm vs Realm combat in WAR focuses on.  In Realm vs Realm, just about everything you do contributes …

Open beta for Rohan Blood Feud has begun and is already jam packed with testers, so much so that YNK Games has more than doubled their number of servers in the first few days of testing to accomodate the huge influx of fans and they promise to continue to increase capacity as demand also increases.  …

Definitely a rarity in the MMOG universe, Eve Online is set to release there latest content upgrade in the form of a free expansion, Empyrean Age.   The most anticipated addition in this expansion is the new PVP system, Factional Warfare.  This allows for all out war between rival factions and encourages players to form militias …

 
Some cool new features coming along with the next expansion to World of Warcraft “Wrath of the Lich King”, no doubt aimed at fending off serious competition from Age of Conan.  For example, some of the new quest mechanices they are …

While waiting for my early access download to complete for AoC, I was playing around with Star Wars Empires at War single player.  I was having a blast attacking planets one at a time, first conquering the area of space surrounding the planet with my fleet of Star Destroyers, then launching a ground campaign with …

In my vision of the sequel to Star Wars Galaxies, vehicles would have combat roles rather than just fancy transports such as they are now.  Vehicles such as the AT-AT, AT-ST and AT-RT would not be pets users control from the side lines, rather vehicles people could enter and control in battles.  The combat class …

Before you get your hopes up, no there is no Star Wars Galaxies sequel in the works, at least not that I am aware of.  This is just a short list of some of the things I would like to see included if SOE and Lucasarts decided to make another go at it.  The chances …

Star Wars Galaxies has really shifted gears towards instant satisfaction for their replacement player base. I say replacement because the vast majority of the original game players have vacated the game after Sony and Lucasarts overhauled the game at the fundamental level and made it a complete different game experience than people origninally bought. To …

Don’t get me wrong, World of Warcraft is a very fun and well written game.  But as with any game, there are issues that could be corrected.  One of these with no easy correction is the ganking of lower level characters by higher level enemy characters in PVP servers.  Most will say that if you join a PVP …

I have so many rants for this game I could, and probably will, go on all day.  In the early days this game was great.  It’s everything, well almost everything, you would expect from the Star Wars universe.  Combat was fun and challenging.  The crafting system was actually fun and rewarding, albeit a bit tedious …

Well, as I mentioned before, there are many things I love about COD4. Helicopters is not one of those things. The helo in COD4 is my worst nightmare! I swear I think either I have some weird, come shoot me bug or who the helo targets …