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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 [...]

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 on what you expect from a game like this. Too Human is definitely different from a traditional RPG, it has [...]

This your first time twinking? Maybe you are getting bored with high level raids in World of Warcraft and looking for something else to do while waiting for WotLK? Maybe you are tired of getting owned in BG?s and want some payback? Hell maybe this isn’t your first time and you are like me, a [...]

A week ago I got that special email from the makers of Mythos inviting me to join their closed beta playground. Initially I had to create an account with the usual stuff; user ID, password, email, and etc. No problems on that end registration was simple and didn’t require any credit card information. Next came [...]

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 began under the auspices of the infamous Black Isle Studios, only to be shelved as [...]

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 [...]

Arcade games are a great way to relax and enjoy a little bit of downtime.Most are a coin-operated entertainment machines, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. These games are often converted into the latest titles, which is why you rarely see older games in your local arcade. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 way crafting will work in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 available for purchase [...]

 
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 they last played. 
 
Players will participate in special events, skill competitions for great [...]

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 with 4 new maps for COD4.
 
Chinatown:
 
A remake of [...]

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 [...]

There is never an end to the constant acquisition of gear! This is one of my posts on the downfalls of what had been one of my favorite games. It really is difficult for me to pick at WoW to much because I do still have a love for it, although that last few months [...]

Seeing as how so many people seem to be onboard with the Early Access in AoC, I thought it would be cool to get a group of people together for some mayhem early on.  The big debate for me was whether to go into a PVE or PVP server.  I read Tim’s post over at CtrlAltDel-Online.com that [...]

With a little more digging, I found that there is a special offer you may be interested in if you are planning on buying Age of Conan anyway. If you pre-order the game you will get your choice of two mounts, a Killer Rhino or the War Mammoth which you’ll be able to mount after [...]

Many people have many different feelings about Star Wars Galaxies. Some people love it just the way it is. But for the most part, many of the original players feel it is a dead game. Compared to the number of subscribers now as to pre-NGE, the old players are right. 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 [...]

Before mounts or vehicles in Star Wars Galaxies, everyone had to make their way on foot, everywhere.  The only shortcut to getting to a destination on planet was to take a shuttle to the nearest city to your destination and walk it from there.
 
After awhile, this became tedious labor but in the beginning this was [...]

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 is based off of that players performance. Either theory [...]

I will delve more into my past gaming experiences in great length a little later, for now I haven’t been doing a ton of gaming thanks to life getting in the way.  I’m not going to complain at all, I recently married a wonderful woman and in the process gained a new addition to the [...]