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I get bored with the same old.  I canceled my Warhammer account about a year ago.  I reactivated last week.  Tier 4 was hopping fun.  To be truthful, it was a series of books that I read over the last six weeks that whetted my Warhammer appetite.  Vampire Wars, The Vampire Genevieve, and Gotrek and [...]

In my last story, I criticized Cryptic for lack of tweets.  Turns out, I just couldn’t find them.  They were there!  They just ported it straight over from Champions!  Sorry Cryptic.  I will try to be a keen observer of neatly hidden features in future.  To access this, among other things such as your [...]

Star Trek Online warped into an awesome beginning!  I love the game.  Cryptic delivered an admirable job, but I want to point a few things out that will make a great game even greater:
1) Can the Spam!!!!
Admittedly, I am not a popular fellow.   However, the totality of my mail experience with STO remains energy (aka [...]

The first real science fiction that I can remember is Star Trek. This tasty 1966 era Sci-Fi morsel whetted my appetite for all things Sci-Fi and thrust me headlong into a life long love affair with the genre.  According to the CBS official history:
“it was in the after-school market during the early 1970’s that the [...]

Have you ever wondered how to get some scientific data around your combat performance? Well, I stumbled on a Google Code open source project that fits the bill, and the author is an absolute genius. You can use the native LOTRO chat function and turn on logging to get the data parsed out and presented [...]

I bit the bullet — a $239.00 phaser flavored bullet!  “You have successfully purchased Star Trek Online Lifetime Subscription!”  OK … so I’ve told you I was burnt with Champions On-Line in the past, as I bought 3 lifetime accounts for me and my boys.  So why is this Cryptic product different from the [...]

It’s astonishing the amount of game play packed into LOTRO.  With Siege of Mirkwood, it inflates the amount of activities in which you can engage beyond anything I thought they would pull off in this release.  One of my favorites is the skirmish system.  I touched on this briefly in my first impressions article the [...]

I purchased Champions Online with great hope that a new way of doing business and game design would liberate me from some of the same old boredom I experience from time to time in my MMORPG game play.  Champions Online took my attention for about 30 days, and it lost it.  On the surface one [...]

Official Release Notes
The Patch
Wanted to give some immediate first impressions, and tonight is the night long awaited.  I arrived home filled with anticipation!  Then I had to patch.  Started the patch at  9:30 central and ended at 10:19 pm.  Also, when the patch concludes you get a great new EULA, which I know you all [...]

If I could pick and choose all of the best features in the MMORPGs that I have played and stuff them into my favorite games, I think I would definitely scrunch the following features into one rock solid game of joy:

All the housing capabilities of Star Wars Galaxies
Elaborate materials extraction, crafting, and economy of [...]