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 …
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 …
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 …
Awhile back, I went to visit my brother who plays a lot more console games than I do and he had rented Mass Effect for the weekend from Blockbuster. I’m not big on game pads but he coaxed me into trying it out, since it’s more fun than just watching him play I gave it …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A few patches ago I began getting consistant crashes when exiting AoC asking me to report the error to Funcom. It was annoying but I was pretty much just living with it until I found a fix posted online by Lefty1117 (gotta give props). Basically the problem seems to be caused by right permission on …
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 …