They Set Us Up the Bomb

With the atom bomb that Mythic Entertainment dropped yesterday about the massive cuts for Warhammer Online it’s leaving many WAR fans in an emotional fog and just as many WAR haters saying, “I told you so”. It is a lot to take in for sure, I still can’t quite wrap my mind around whether or …



Is Funcom Spreading Themselves To Thin?

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 …

Warhammer Gives Good and Bad News

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 …

Will you buy the Warhammer Online CE?

Syp over at Waaagh! has a post up about the CE for Warhammer being sold out by this coming Monday, possibly.  This got me to thinking about my previous experience with a Collector’s Edition and whether or not it’s worth the money to buy the …

Google launches Lively – MMO or Glorified Chat Room

Lively launched sometime yesterday and from all I’ve read pre-launch it was supposed to be Google’s version of Second Life.  I virtual world where players could explore real world environments and interact with other people.  This thing was supposed to redefine how people view and use the internet.

 

So far, bzzzzzzzzzzz.  That’s my buzzer sound.  I …

Star Trek Online MMORPG

With CrypticStudio’s having their ever so cryptic hint at a possible upcoming Star Trek MMORPG, questions are beginning to circulate about what it would be like.  After reading an interesting question from the folks over at Massively, it got me thinking of possibilities.  To sum it up, …

MySims Coming to the PC in October

Electronic Arts announced they are releasing the MySims franchise to PC this October. Previously, the game was only available on consoles but they’ve gone and built a PC version and beefed it up with some new features. Ohhh the humanity! Why did they have to go and do this to me? I’ll admit I got …

Fallout 3

It’s a little ironic maybe that the original Fallout was considered an unofficial sequel to Electronic Arts earlier title Wastelands but couldn’t use the name due to rights issues as Fallout 3 hasn’t been without problems of its own.

 

Fallout 3 …

Punkbuster Memory Leak

Having problems playing in punkbuster enabled games?  Computer slowing down or crashing?  Frame rates getting horrendous?  There is a reason.

 

Ever since CoD4 patch 1.7 was released we started noticing frame rate problems in game.  At first we thought this was a problem related to the new CoD4 patch but unfortunately it appears to be a Punkbuster …

Power Leveling and Gold Farming

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 …