No blog about gaming is complete without an official list of game cliches and the games that most exemplify them in action.  Right?  It’s an industry requirement or something.  Because it’s required by both the MMO Game Blog Guild of Secret Handshakes and the Gamers With...

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,...

It’s difficult to bring up video games, especially online multiplayers, without hearing comments about pedophiles.  It has become as expected as hearing about living on mom’s basement and living on Twinkies.  Pedophilia is now considered part of the gamer culture by those...

For most of us, online role playing games (RPGs) have largely or entirely replaced face-to-face “dice off” games like Dungeons & Dragons and Palladium Fantasy.  Busy lives and the fact that playing online is just easier and can be done more often has taken its toll on the...

Anyone who’s been around long enough to remember the very beginning of computer games, as I have, knows that things have developed rapidly, but not always for the better.  Twenty years ago, the text-based multi-user dungeon (MUD) was king.  These games were based on well-written...

Neowiz has announced that their latest MMO RPG, Seven Souls Online, will be coming in the spring of this year in beta mode.  The game will feature cultural combinations of East and West along with some science fiction elements.  A trailer for the new game was also released (see it...

The former CMO of CCP Games, Ryan Dancey, has moved on to begin a new MMO development studio called GolbinWorks.  Dancey has formed a small team of developers and is hard at work on a new MMO based on the semi-popular Pathfinder tabletop RPG game series. The team’s goal is to...

Three popular MMOs have received updates this week.  Starting with Heroes of Thessalonica, then Soul Master and finally a huge addition to ArcheAge. Heroes of Thessalonica - This game only just launched on August 8th and is already seeing a patch, which includes new mounts, items, and...

  Cryptic and Perfect World Entertainment have announced that they plan to make Star Trek Online free-to-play (F2P) by the end of the year.  This was not unexpected as their other game, Champions Online, went F2P earlier this year.  What is unexpected is the fast time-frame they...