I look back on games I’ve played before in the MMO genre and tend to have fond memories of friends, adventures and being lost in the game world.  But then I also have memories of tedious grinds, stressful situations and general time sinks called raids.  Why do game designers keep putting this mechanic into games?

Well, first …

At least, why I’m not going to buy it right away.  Snafzg over at TheGreenSkin.com made a great point, in my opinion, when he posted that he thought the next beta phase for WAR could be the actual release.  We’ve seen it so many times before – …

Jordan Weisman, the founder of FASA Corporation and creator of the MechWarrior franchise has reacquired the license for MechWarrior back from Microsoft along with a few other properties previously in the FASA catalog.  He has taken his newly reacquired franchises back and launched a new game company to boot, Smith and Tinker.  While he hasn’t made …

 
 Sony Online Entertainment and DC Comics announced today at E3 DC Universe Online.  There really isn’t much available yet as far as game play type information.  The only thing I was able to take away from this …

In a recent letter for the game director, Gaute Godager announces what Funcom has been up to behind the scenes working on Age of Conan.  It’s a rather lengthy letter but I’ll some up the key points and what I took out of it.  Before I begin, I should say that the biggest reason I …

Mark Jacobs announced some good news and some bad news for Mythic’s upcoming Warhammer Online.  Well, he announced some good news and alluded to other good news, heh.  First we’ll start with the good news, the bit he alluded to:  Warhammer Online won’t be delayed, probably.

The other good news, the part he actually did announce …

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 …

GameSpot just did some research into what it takes to run Age of Conan and what it takes to run it well.  Unfortunately, the page with the full article appears to be down so I can’t get in and read what the post says – but I can read between the lines.  Having played AoC …

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 …

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 …