Today there was a press release from 38 Studios announcing that they have made a publishing “agreement” with EA for their upcoming “epic single-player role-playing game”.  I feel like I’ve just witnessed someone announcing that they have signed a deal with the devil.  EA was once referred to as the the kiss of death to [...]

Whenever I go without a  MMO for long periods of time the first thing that always comes to mind is how I need a game that I can invest myself into.  That’s what sets MMO’s apart from other games for me.  A MMO character is something that the players should feel committed to in a [...]

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing came out of left field for me.  Graev mentioned the game and said that we should try out the demo.  Judging the game by the name, I was pretty sure that I’d be playing some flimsy attempt at making a racing game with familiar characters.  Afterall, it’s Sega and I [...]

Battlefield Bad Company 2 released on Tuesday and, as expected after playing the beta, it’s fantastic.  The performance has improved a great deal after a patch and an ini tweak or two.  The maps and guns which I didn’t get to try in beta are all very well done, especially the scenery and atmosphere of [...]

Some big changes have just hit the cash shop in Allods Online.  Prices have dropped significantly yet still remain slightly higher than the Russians pay.  The expected result that players would welcome any cash shop change was immediately apparent within the first minute of the change.  People are shouting their excitement and are now expressing [...]

Does it have PvP?  That seems the be the question asked about every game these days.  Even the games that are truly meant to be PvE have tried accommodating PvP in some way.  The cost is becoming quite evident.  PvP is making PvE worse.  We’ve seen game after game release and whether or not they’re [...]

Despite my lack of blog posts about Allods lately, and the extreme amount of negativity and cynicism surrounding the game from just about everyone under the sun, I’m still playing.  In fact, I’m playing the game a lot.  I’m now over halfway through level 24 and working through the first few waves of quests in [...]

I continued my UO adventure tonight by trying out some combat and finding a new place to mine.  I was shown a really nice mountain to mine west of Britain where I was able to make a few thousand gold and meet a few players.  In UO players are able to set up houses anywhere [...]

Tonight was blast from the past night.  I installed Ultima Online and StarCraft Brood Wars!
Ultima Online… my gosh.  Total 1998 rush.  I never really got into Ultima Online back then.  I played on a friend’s account (I still have his CD… never returned it, oops)  and usually just explored.  We’ve told the story before of [...]

Have you been keeping up on all these MMO’s being announced or picking up some face time while making the rounds on the usual sites?  I haven’t.  From the “meh” screenshots to the titles that make you simply wonder why, it’s borderline shovelware and mostly forgettable stuff.  I’m also seeing a lot of games being  [...]

The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.  I was not banned nor have I quit.  In fact, I’m writing this while alt tabbed waiting on a quest respawn.  Silly rumors floating around on twitter and other websites are untrue.
Today’s communication from gPotato shed some light on a few things we’ve been having to [...]

I keep torturing myself by watching the live streams of StarCraft 2.  I don’t know why I do it.  Every time I watch them I just want to play the game more.  A couple of us on vent (well, more like 30…) like to watch and comment on the games.  I’ve been tempted to reinstall [...]

When playing a game like World of Warcraft it’s natural to accept that we’ll be given a path to follow from 1-80 and that we’ll be given a story and purpose that leads us along.  Playing WoW also means that you accept that the general goal of the game is to complete the content, and [...]

What an interesting past two days this has been.  I’m going to get right to it guys.  I’m not interested in being a jerk or completely destroying people.  I am, however, interested in presenting the facts and the truth of a situation.  The bottom line right now is that Allods Online is facing some series [...]

This is not how I wanted to wake up.  First the whole Tiger Woods news conference taking precedent over my morning news and now logging on to hear that a patch came overnight opening the cash shop revealing horrendous prices.  None of us are surprised to find that the cash shop was hiding a secret.  [...]