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A little while ago, we had Mike announce that he was done with Age of Conan. I wrote a counterpoint opinion piece saying that I was staying in the game […]

Beam me up Scotty!  Yesterday at PennyArcade they had a comic that illustrated the possible problem that might arise in the upcoming Star Trek MMO with traveling.  As with any […]

Tonight, SOE demoed its new Free Realms game at the FanFaire. You can get a quick sense of the game via its brief Wikipedia entry. Call me a silly old […]

I was reflecting on something I said on the BioWare forums, recently, about skills-based character progression, which can create all manner of “hybrid” characters, versus the more common (and, let […]

You know, I never thought to write this up when it happened at the time but, the more I think about it, days later, the more it niggles at the […]

Steve Danuser has tossed up some interesting thoughts, as always, on his Moorgard blog. This time they relate to how growing up and moving on from a game is really […]

The MMORPG industry is a strange beast, isn’t it? I mean, can anyone really make any sense out of it? Everywhere I go on the Internet – forums, blogs, etc […]

You know, I’m just as guilty of doing this as anyone else (so please don’t think I’m throwing stones and being holier-than-thou), but the last decade, or thereabouts, has seen […]