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Celebrating their 50th episode, Lagwar’s Fallen Earth LifeNet Podcast is giving away several free product keys (that’s a key to a full copy of Fallen Earth), Clone Psychoactive Shots (for an XP boost), interceptors, weapons  and other in-game prizes to listeners and party-goers!
The 50th episode will air live Saturday, September 4, at 9:30 p.m. EDT [...]

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It was May 25th, 1977:  I was 8 years old.  Jimmy Carter presided over the U.S. government.   You could still buy a Tab.  I don’t know how, but I convinced my mom to let me see the movie with my friends and we stood outside for hours!  I saw it more than 10 [...]

As most people who read these columns know I am a so-called “lore whore”. I do not PvP. In the rare instances that I do, I generally die. Often. And frequently. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to be the A-Rod of arenas, it is just that my proficiency at PvP mirrors my proficiency at basketball – nonexistent. Like basketball or football the skill set required for excelling at high levels of arena play is rare, and requires extensive practice to hone. Similar to football, basketball, or any major sport watching the best players matched up head to head can be quite entertaining. So why isn’t WoW arenas a sport or Starcraft 2 for that matter? Will they ever be? Read on for my thoughts on the future of “e-sports”.

Raise your hand if you realized we have a blockbuster, AAA MMORPG releasing in the next month. Don’t be shy, I’d bet a lot of people didn’t raise their hand, but it’s true. On September 22nd, pre-order customers will be knee-deep in Square Enix’s (SE) latest MMO offering: Final Fantasy XIV. The game hasn’t received [...]

Back in July I sent a letter to Fallen Earth developers declaring I had killed one of their staff and then sent their head with a note written on it.  I have included what I wrote on the decaying skull here:
Dear Fallen Earth Department of Free Stuff;
My name is Xerb Painhunter.  I’ve spent most of [...]

I am absolutely horrible at basketball. Just really, really bad. Ever seen a Harlem Globetrotters game against the Generals? Well pretty much anyone looks like the Globetrotters when matched against me. I can’t pass, I can’t shoot, I can’t dribble – and despite 16 years of playing soccer and developing some freakishly disproportionate leg muscles – I can’t jump either. Luckily no one is ever going to inform me out of the blue that I have to give up my job and become a basketball player. Our characters in MMO’s though are sometimes asked to do just that: change roles. How do you deal with it?

If there’s one common thread that ties American MMOs together, it’s their unfailing ability to hype their product beyond all reasonable expectations. MMOs are saviors and inasmuch as games like Guild Wars 2 try to “challenge the conventions” they proclaim their MMO-messiahship with twisting tongues. The irony of focusing on day one box sales in [...]

Last night something akin to a small hurricane hit the town that I live in. Thunder boomed, rain came down in sheets, and the wind blew. The wind blew hard enough to completely topple a huge tree near my apartment complex that resulted in power outages– so no WoW last night. Initially I was disappointed by my lack of entertainment-giving electricity, it would ruin my plans to…run ICC – no, farm frost badges…no, kill Halion again? Nope. I wasn’t doing that either. I realized that even if I had electricity there really wasn’t anything in WoW I was planning to do. Judging by the desertion I’ve seen in Dalaran recently I am betting that many of you feel the same way. We are all in the same boat – waiting on the expansion, and if it seems harder to wait this time than other times – it’s because it is.

I found out a friend of mine was selected to play the Beta for Perpetuum (http://www.perpetuum-online.com/) and decided to find a way to make that work for the Beta Tracker! He’s decided to take some time out of his day and allow me to interview him on his thoughts and experiences in the game so [...]

My original plan was that as the expansion neared release I would be writing you fanciful stories of the beta and the glimmering new coat of paint Blizzard was putting on our old friend Azeroth. Unfortunately, apparently due to several large scale e-mail errors, I have yet to receive my beta invitation. So instead I am stuck reading other people’s posts and looking at screenies with the “common man” like some sort of punished beast of burden! Since I haven’t been able to immerse myself in Cataclysm – I have been resorting to playing a little Starcraft 2 on the side. After a week or so of playing one thing is certain – SC2 has learned a lot from WoW.