How Restricted Should MMORPG Housing Be?
Housing in MMORPGs is starting to become less “the next best thing” and more “what we’ve come to expect”. With RIFT‘s successful dimension system, WildStar‘s housing buzz, FFXIV‘s recent launch of FC...
View ArticleTESO vs. WildStar: Hope, Reality, and Whirlwinds
Hype can be a dangerous thing, especially when it comes to MMORPGs. Most of us have found ourselves completely caught up in a hype whirlwind a time or two during these last couple years of...
View ArticleA Review of 2013’s Fae Yule
Ah, Fae Yule. It’s always been one of my favorite RIFT holidays. Ever since last year’s addition of the little sledding mini-game and the IAs, it’s always struck me as one Trion’s better world events....
View ArticleAsheron’s Call: A Duo’s Return
Last month we gave your T. Striker’s impressions of his return to Asheron’s Call. However, AC being an MMO and all, we figured, it might be best to talk about the game from the multiplayer perspective....
View ArticleLearning to Re-Embrace the Gamer Tag
It’s been a rough month or so for video game fans. All of us– the players, the critics, and those of us who choose to write about them daily. I won’t go over the details of what’s went on exactly since...
View ArticleFFXIV: Honest Thoughts on Letter from the Producer LIVE Part 17
At a time like this, when Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn starts getting dull, especially for people like me who are unable to devote time on a static group for raids and Ramuh EX, a Letter from the...
View ArticleFFXIV: Are Melee Unwanted?
The other day I did some light reading on Dragoons, and I have to admit that I know nothing about Dragoons despite having a level 37 Dragoon for months (I only leveled it to get Blood for Blood). One...
View ArticlePutting the “Guild” Back in Guild Wars 2
We understand that games change, much like we understand Guild Wars 2 is not the original Guild Wars. They’re two very different games. But for a number of Guild Wars players, Guild Wars 2 is like the...
View ArticleArcheAge: The Quickest One Month Ever! What Makes This Game So Addicting?
It’s a charming realization when something as simple as planting a mushroom and being able to harvest it in a PvP zone without dying is luxuriously satisfying, like that very first MMO you played...
View ArticleLeague of Legends: “Plot is Overrated” Revisited
Back in March of this year Tom Abernathy, Riot Games’ narrative Lead, and Richard Rouse, a design lead for Microsoft Games, ruffled more than a few feathers with some comments made at the annual Game...
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