Posting on the Official WoW forums and likely the newer Blizzard forums for games like StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 will soon show your real name just like it does in-game with the Real ID friend system according to a Blizzard forum post.  Below that you’ll have the option to include your character’s name or [...]

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is the newest addition to Traveller’s Tales’ Lego games.  As the title of the game indicates, this game covers the first four years or the first four books/movies.  It’s clear that the game actually follows the movie though because it essentially copies the scenes and how they are set up [...]

I’m playing through Knights of the Old Republic for the first time after having only watched Graev play it.  I’ve always known that the game is a rather linear RPG and conversation heavy.  I also knew that the game was about choosing how to respond to people in conversation and relying upon those decisions to [...]

Final Fantasy XIV will be coming out for PC on September 30th (22nd for head start program) with some interesting news on their pricing model.  The subscription fee is a respectable $12.99 per month.  I’m a major proponent of subscription fees so whenever I see a new MMO coming out with them I always feel [...]

Crazy WoW Cataclysm information is flowing now that the NDA is down and the coming expansion has entered closed beta.   Coincidence that it comes right at the same time FFXIV announced their launch date (Sept. 30, $12.99/month)?  Blizzard definitely has a way of deflating other people’s big announcements. Ruby Sanctum was released yesterday but today [...]

I owe this find to those who posted about it on our forums.  Land of Chaos Online or “LOCO” is a third person 3D (like you would see in a MMO) game that plays like DotA/LoL/HoN.  When I first saw the name I immediately dismissed it because it sounds stupid.  Then I went to the [...]

I realized today that I’ve commented on Global Agenda abandoning the subscription fee on forums and news sites but I haven’t written about it on the blog.  Time to correct this oversight.   I called it back in 2009 and in January of this year when I wrote about Global Agenda.  Having played back in Alpha [...]

The APB coverage here at Keen and Graev’s has been non-existent.  I got a “Key to the City” but apparently missed the playtime allotted.  Neither of us have been looking forward to the game for various reasons ranging from EA to bad memories of CrimeCraft to the simple design of the game.  There hasn’t even [...]

Patch 3.3.5 landed on WoW’s US servers yesterday and caused some issues which kept the servers offline until about 5:00pm PST when some became available.   This patch is actually pretty important for WoW.  It introduces the Real ID system which connects all Battle.net games together, granting players the ability to communicate with friends no matter [...]

A few friends and I have been playing Star Wars Galaxies on a classic server that is all pre-CU/NGE.  I was skeptical at first about whether or not it would be the same (feel the same, provide that experience I remember soooo fondly, or even be populated with people).  It was a total shocker to [...]

My readers know me best as a gamer who wears his emotions on his sleeve.  I’m happy to constantly tell you how I really feel about games, even if I am contradicting myself or changing my mind.  I wouldn’t write any other way because I feel the biggest reason you’re here reading my blog is [...]

I ran the FFXIV Official Benchmark today on m computer that is about two years old.  Some of you may remember that I upgraded right around the time Age of Conan came out.  The results weren’t so great. FFXIV looks really nice.  Even in the alpha videos there wasn’t much to complain about graphically other [...]

In our usual style we provided commentary on all three (Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony) E3 presentations and we’ve come to the conclusion that there wasn’t even a real need to scrutinize the details or lay anything out because there was a very clear winner: Nintendo.  It wasn’t even close this year as Microsoft’s Kinect tunnel [...]

Sony wraps up the last of the big three console press conferences and we’ve just finished watching.  Our commentary below will give you our insights into what was announced and shown.  Microsoft really failed to bring anything and Nitendo set the bar high with a lot of exclusive games and some brand new surprising announcements.  [...]

After Microsoft’s Conference being a complete failure to show anything for gamers, it falls to Nintendo to set the bar.  The conference is about to start and below you will find our thoughts and commentary on what was shown. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Nintendo is coming out way strong with a new Zelda [...]