China Bans Gold Farming & Bunny Hopping

Today(via InformationWeek) China’s Ministries have declared gold farming in virual games then selling it for real currency illegal, stating
“It isn’t far that noobies can just buy gold from gold farmers and then buy all the best gear while I have to grind my ass off for it”
they further added
“Bunny hopping in FPSers is also not [...]

How to Have Fun In WarHammer

My Engineer enters the enemy occupied zone. He scans the horizon at the end of his trusty dragon engraved rifle, looking for any signs of the enemy. Every step through this cursed land taxes his very soul. He can feel the crunch of the dried dirt and sand with his every step, the grenades along [...]

I tried, I really did.

My WarHammer subscription expired on June 22. When it expired I attempted to go back to old reliable WOW. As I entered Azeroth ready to lay down some unholy whoop arse on npc’s and mobs I realized one thing. I am bored. Legions lay dead at my feet, yet I was bored. I felt like [...]

Review: Aion Beta Weekend

Review: Aion Beta Weekend

After my last entry about some of the upcoming MMOs, luck would have it that I was able to get a chance to play Aion during one of their recent beta preview weekend type events.  Today I am going to try to give you my impressions from playing during the recent weekend [...]

Why Darkfall is made of fail by someone who wanted to love it…

I recently canvassed the opinions of a long-term MMO gamer who quit Darkfall in disgust not long ago. I have taken her thoughts and put them into the following editorial-style narrative rather than a straight Q&A. I hope you enjoy reading this, especially if it saves you from playing this game because I genuinely trust [...]

WarHammer, The Good, The Bad and the Crashed?

I recently resubbed to WarHammer for about a month. I am enjoying it greatly. The game has drastically improved. Classes have been balanced, RVR has had an over haul, and new classes have been added. I will break down my review on the game into three parts. The Good, The Bad, and the Crashed.
 
The Good
The [...]

Evony Review

I’m sure over the last week or so you have seen the Evony ads everywhere, I know I have, there’s probably one showing right now.  Well after seeing them a million times or so I decided what the hell, I’m not playing any MMO right now, so I’ll go check it out.
Evony is a free [...]

Waaaaghhh. I am back!

I finally resubbed to WarHammer. I have really been interested in what they have been doing in that game. Many career updates, patches and server stability fixes have been put into it. I… love… Warhammer. There I said it. The game is fun, full of excitement, full with fun classes to try. The game shines [...]

Mortal Online Beta News + Screenshots

Star Vault today announced that on June 29th they will be opening their store to start taking pre-orders for their upcoming MMORPG Mortal Online.   All users that pre-order a copy will also be given access to the beta until the game officially launches, however Star Vault is limiting the pre-order to 10,000 copies.   [...]

Final Fantasy XIV: Online Announced

Sony has just showed the first ever trailer for Square Enix’s next MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV: Online. It will be a PS3 exclusive game, however that doesn’t mean it won’t be on the PC since normally when they talk about exclusivity they are talking about consoles only.