LoreHound Crier 1/14 – 1/18 At A Glance

Posted on Jan 18, 2013

  Well this has certainly been a headliner week. From gay planets to presidential violence studies, there’s been a lot of video games in the news the past few days. It’s rather depressing how sensationalized the media has become, that facts and information take a seat far, far behind glitz and outrage mongering. It’s weeks

Why Planetside 2 is failing

Posted on Jan 17, 2013

I’m a big fan of Planetside 2, but two months after release it’s clear the game is not the blockbuster hit many thought it would be. FPSers are arguably the biggest selling games out there, so you would think a MMOFPS would do pretty well, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. Instead of

Planetside 2 Review

Posted on Nov 26, 2012

When Planetside 2 launched last week, like many MMO launches, it was a bumpy one with the majority of players unable to log into the servers for hours, myself included. However by the end of the day the bugs were fixed and I was ready to deploy, I just didn’t know I would be deployed

SOE Revises PlanetSide 2 Membership Benefits

Posted on Oct 03, 2012

PlanetSide 2 is one of many games about to be made available that offers a multitude of options for players to support the developer. Everything from not paying a cent to full subscription. The shooter has been in beta for sometime, which has allowed Sony Online Entertainment to collect enormous amounts of feedback on all

Exclusive Video Interview: PlanetSide 2 Customization & Scope Increased

Posted on Sep 18, 2012

What do you have when you have 2,000+ players on a single massive 8K map? That’d be PlanetSide 2. Tramell Isaac brings iTZKooPA up to speed on the latest and greatest changes to Sony Online Entertainment’s MMOFPS, including detailing strategic changes for night fights, the extreme level of granularity for customizing your payload. Isaac brings to bear

LoreHound Crier: Week of 8/3 At a Glance

Posted on Aug 03, 2012

I must apologize to anyone who likes to read these, life seems to be conspiring to prevent me from writing on Fridays. I thought it’d be the easiest day to write, but no! Anything than can possibly go wrong – goes wrong on Fridays. Isn’t that supposed to be limited to Friday the 13th? but

GDC 2012 MMO Run-down

Posted on Mar 09, 2012

The 2012 Game Developers Conference (GDC) is in its last day, and as it winds down, we take a look back. While GDC generally isn’t a big conference in terms of MMO games, there was plenty of game previews, and some big announcement made this year. Below we have a full run-down of all the

The Upcoming MMOGs of 2012

Posted on Dec 30, 2011

It’s not quite over yet, but 2011 was not a banner year for the MMOG genre. There was no massive success, no breakaway hit. Players did receive their handful of expansions and new content patches, but with the exception of the just-released Star Wars: The Old Republic – a title which may become that massive