Sep 09
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 …
Sony Online Entertainment and DC Comics announced today at E3 DC Universe Online. There really isn’t much available yet as far as game play type information. The only thing I was able to take away from this …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
When I first saw the trailers and game play footage of Diablo 3, I must say I was impressed. Finally things in the game looked the way I thought they should have. I was especially impressed with the end boss characters being much larger, looking more like you think a boss should look. Mean.
But there …
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 …
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 …
Activision is set to release the next title in the Call of Duty series, World at War - scheduled for release this Fall. The game will be available on PC, X-Box 360, Nintendo Wii and the Playstation 3. The time line for this game is going …
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 …
Jun 24
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 …
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 …
Hello ever faithful readers! Just wanted to take a second to announce the launch of GameZig’s latest project: GameZig “The Forum”. Hope you don’t mind me stealing my title idea from SpaceBalls! Heh, anyway - with all the visitors we get here and the questions I get in emails about computer …
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 …
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’ve been receiving a lot of requests for help from people experiencing problems with the black screen issue in Age of Conan in response to my post on the issue. But now I’ve also been getting a lot of complaints of people freezing or locking up sometime around the boat scene or …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I, like a fool, have been trying the ‘/claim’ command in game to try to get my pre-order items. I ordered the Collector’s Edition from BestBuy and have yet to receive the actual box of the game. I finally realized today that I won’t be able to use my in-game pre-order items with the claim …
Just in case some of you had the same issues as me, here’s the problem and what I did to fix it. Whenever I would click Play on the client menu, the screen would either stutter or just go black. Graphics in the game if I got past the black was just a mountain terrain …
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 …
As predicted, when I woke up this morning the download client reported download complete and I began installation before heading into work. Gotta love Funcom, the installation message “This will take a long time” haha. Anyway, if you haven’t already tried the auto pause/resume method using the AI Robot or some other macro tool, I …
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 …
I understand that pausing and resuming the early access download is another solution to keep the download speed up at normal levels. This works for me when I try it this way but slows back down to a snails pace after about 5 minutes or so. You can just pause and resume again every five …
I’ve been toying back and forth with the idea of buying the Collector’s Edition of Age of Conan for my pre-order. I’ve been doing some research and found a great article over at Keen and Graev’s Gaming Blog that talks about the pro’s and con’s of buying the CE. …
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 …