Happy 4th of July! I’m taking the day off of blogging to spend the day with my wife and daughter and go watch some good old celebration fireworks. If you are a hardcore gamer – I know a lot of MMORPG’s out there have their own versions of holidays, Star Wars Galaxies had a lot …

 
 
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 …

Today Jagex announced that the anticipated high detail version of Runescape is now available to subscribers in a beta release.  Also with this update, for the first time Runescape will be playable in full screen mode within your internet browser window.  The update utilizes new graphics technologies to enhance the games look and bring it up to …

Even though Diablo 3 is not going to be an MMO it is taking on some of the better traits of one.  One of the noteable changes to this version compared to the others is the character customization.  Gamers will be able to create both male and female versions of every class which has never been …

It’s of course all just speculation and educated, or uneducated as the case may be, guessing.  But there are a few things we do know about the Blizzard trailer – most important of which is that …

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 …

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 …

Major console systems like the Nintendo Wii, the Sony Playstation platform and Microsoft’s X-Box 360 all seemed to be suffering from the same affliction that has hit our beloved MMORPG genre of PC games – no or low risk game design.  Games like the Grand Theft Auto series are to the console as games like …

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 …