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LAGWAR is pleased to announce we are giving away beta keys for the browser-based Nordic MMOG, Crown of Byzantus. I’ve personally been playing this game for the last few days and must say it’s entertaining. Living in the United States I’m not real familiar with the genre, but am quickly becoming a fan. [...]

WoW is all about killing bosses. It’s true. Where do all the storylines in the game converge? Where does the best gear drop? And where is the most challenging gameplay found? It’s not a world quest, it’s certainly not PvP, it’s all at the biggest baddie in the instance. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking Deadmines or Icecrown Citadel. In the end, WoW is only as good as the boss fights that Blizzard gives us. If every boss was the same fight, no one would play – thankfully for us; Blizzard has given us some variety in boss fight mechanics. Below I will go through some common fight mechanics…but do we need more?

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 [...]

MCV, a UK based Video Game Industry media website recently published a fantastic article. This is a great read for anyone who is interested in hearing where some of the industry’s top developers believe the genre is headed – of course the idea of the next WoW-Killer was mentioned.
Development team members from [...]

Where have all the rational people gone? They seem to have all abandoned the internet for somewhere else. Maybe they forgot to send me my invitation? I don’t know what happened to them all but I wish they would come back, because there are too many message boards, too many forum posts, and too much in-game chat that seems completely devoid of any real rational thought.

PCGamesHardware.com recently posted an article titled 30 years of Fantasy games: A Genre in the Course of Time. For those old-school and old-timer PC gamers out there, this is one article that might just take you – “back in the day”.
The author has compiled a pretty nice list of fantasy games that have [...]

Many players don’t appreciate it, but WoW is on the verge of a major shift. This past week the second wing of Icecrown Citadel was released to players, which means the next wing that gets released will pit us up against The Lich King, Arthas himself. Before I delve into this I have to warn you, this might get lorey, but I think I have earned it. I’ve written about game mechanics the last few weeks anyway. Tell you what, next week I will write about expertise caps or some theorycraft thing, you know, to balance it out. Anyway back to Arthas.

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 remarkably hard to please everyone, no matter what you do. Remember middle school when the teacher decided that there would be no quiz that week as along as everyone was ok with it? All of the students would cheer, and then there was that one kid at the back of the room that would speak up in his nasally voice demanding the quiz. What was wrong with him? Clearly someone needed to introduce him to peer pressure, or a swift kick in the groin. But I am getting off-track. My point is that it is really hard to reach a consensus with any group of people and Warcraft is no exception.