Besides a solid training, adventurers need to be well equipped to survive in Taborea. Most important are adequate clothes and a good weapon to be prepared for the dangers of the game world of Runes of Magic. But of course the different classes of the ambitious fantasy online …
StreamMyGame has now enabled support for the Sixaxis controller on the PS3. So now you can play all your favorite PC titles on your PS3 with the controller you want to use! This technology is really making headway and making improvement after improvement to give you full control over how you play and where you …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The first of dungeon to be announced by the Warhammer Online team is The Bastion Stair. Both the Order and Destruction are drawn to this source of Chaos power. The Order will …
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 …
Blizzard did a 180 turn on us and went from ice to fire to announce Diablo III: And the Heavens Shall Tremble. The game will not be the next-gen MMO Blizzard has been working on, my bet is still on Starcraft for …
In the next big patch (I beleive scheduled for next week?) is going to introduce apprentice mounts for players now at level 30. To train for the ability to ride the new mounts will be 35 gold giving the lower level players a cheap boost to speed. Every 10 levels or so usually has a …
Shot Online is hosting a set of four tournaments in the month of July. The overall prize for first place is a full set of repairable Hurricane clubs while 2nd and 3rd walk away with a full set of non-repairable Hurricanes.
San Jose, Calif. (June 26, 2008) - San Jose-based online game publisher, Gamescampus.com (www.gamescampus.com, run …
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 …
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 …
I was just reading an article by Kevin Murnane over at Massively about greed. Kevin’s right in that there is a lot of greed in MMO’s - friends stabbing friends in the back for epic loot and the like. With that in mind I started reflecting on end game content and …
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 …
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 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 …
GameZig is currently accepting applications for reviewers, game journalists and fictional writers for short, ’serial style’ stories in all genre’s of the video game industry! If you have strong opinions about video games of the past or enjoy talking about games of the future, we want you! Single player, Massively Multi-player, Consoles…we need good writers …
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 …
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 …
One of the longest running MMORPG’s is getting a much needed upgrade. Runescape, which is the successor to DeviousMUD, is a popular persistant online world that has been running since 2001 and has retained a respectable player base, due in large part to it’s free to play option. For the past 7 years, the game …
Cursed.com has launched a beta of the Age of Conan Armory. The beta version of the Armory currently supports a functional feat calculator as well as community driven feat builds for players to show off their PVP feat setup. The beta site …
There are rumors floating around that Bioware is working on two things right now, first they seem to be working on a new MMO project. Kotaku has an article about some of the MMO rumors and is speculating that the new MMO is not going to be based on KOTOR. However, if you look …
The ultimate goal of any MMORPG is to totally immerse you in the game world. That’s what keeps you coming back, in the game world you can be whoever you want to be. You are a jedi knight constantly at odds with the Empire or a …
If you’re like me, you probably get bored playing the same game day in and day out. You don’t necessarily want to abandon your favorite game but you want to break the cycle a bit and find a few others to play when that favorite MMO starts feeling more like work than play! That’s how …
One thing I’ve always talked about and have thought is missing within most major games since my early days of MMO’s have been the ‘game within a game’ idea, or mini-games. Star Wars Galaxies had the concept in early development with some mini-games but they quickly were moved to the back burner and never made …
One game I’ve been watching lately has been Stargate Worlds, an MMO based on the popular television series, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. I’ll admit, I’m not to up-to-date on the story line in Atlantis, I’ve maybe seen 2 episodes but SG-1 was a real …
Trying to build on the popularity of WAR in the Oceanic community, EA announced recently that they’ll be hosting a dedicated Oceanic server on mainland Australia. The server will be available for play to anyone in the world but is primarily designed to offer gamers in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other Southeast Asian territories …
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 …
I’ve heard the cries of many gamers who are unable to login and play Age of Conan due to a authentication failure during login. According to FunCom, this is in large part due to not properly registering your key from the retail box to your account if you were an Early Access player, like me. …
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 this newest edition of the Hyborian Insider, a developer discusses the core components of the game. Crafting and building player cities. Watch the video for more:
Age of Conan, the long anticipated MMO is finally set for release this month! I gave up on this game ever coming out a while back and stumbled across it in my musings. It looks better than ever and looks like all the major features promised will be included in initial release. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …