In the past couple of months, we’ve been introduced to or seen a lot of information on games that are releasing this year.  Some have seen some marketing already and most of us who follow gaming news have a pretty good idea of what’s going to hit the Internet this year as the...

Next week, as long predicted, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) will go free to play (F2P). Gamers around the Web are split on this decision, though most welcome the idea of F2P in general, they are not happy with the way BioWare plans to implement it in SWTOR.  So is the introduction...

The elections are upon us and as red blooded Americans, we must at least pretend we give a crap about which of the Tweedles running for office wins next week.  Running for President of the United States this year, we have no less than six men and women who will be filling the ballot...

Wednesday’s release of a patch upgrade to 1.0.4 of Diablo III saw some changes to Classes and Legendary Items in the game.  Here is how that could affect you. The changes specifically affect Wizard, Barbarian, Witch Doctor, Monk and Demon Hunter classes while the updates to...

If you haven’t read our Overview of Guild Wars 2 and our breakdown of the Classes and Races of Guild Wars 2, you’ll need to do so before you can understand what’s in this detailed look at skills and traits in the game. We’re just days away from the official release...

In just a few short days, Guild Wars 2 (GW2) will unleash on the MMO gaming community.  This innovative new game will change the way many look at massive multiplayers and RPG.  Such game-changing things are usually met with either massive success or massive derision.  In case of...

The highly-anticipated new MMO, Guild Wars 2, releases on August 28 (August 25 if you pre-order).  Beta play closed last weekend and everyone is now free to talk openly about the game.  I’ll summarize my opinion of this new MMO: ground-breakingly awesome. Everything about this...

The gaming market is growing and much of that growth is happening in the newly-emerging market of China.  Currently, according to analysis by Niko Partners in San Jose, California, China is about half of the world’s total online games revenue. “China is home to more than 150...

Some people are fans of EverQuest II, some aren’t.  It’s the game that gamers love to rip on and defend.  EverCrack debuted as one of the newest and, at the time, hottest multiplayers in the field and was World of Warcraft before WOW even existed.  The second rendition,...

Subscription-based multiplayers are becoming a thing of the past.  A few holdouts still linger, but nearly every major MMO has gone free to play (F2P), marking a huge shift in the gaming market from premium play to freemium. Last month, one of the most venerable games in the MMO role...

The term “massive multiplayer online” (MMO) has meant a lot of things since its inception in the 1990s.  Today, one genre of MMO are social games that include real-time or near-real-time play aspects into their models.  While most social games, such as Zynga’s...

A large number of dedicated Lord of the Rings Online players are big player vs player fans, getting their freep on regularly.  Others are lovers of the creep culture that comes with PvP and the ability to warg out or orc it all on the freeps in the zone.  The Ettenmoors is one of...