When someone mentions MMORPGs, there’s a really good chance that World of Warcraft is the first thing that comes to mind. It’s easily the most popular, and it’s certainly the model that so many other games in the genre have tried to emulate. Let’s face it – World of Warcraft is an undisputed success, still pumping strong even eight years after its initial release. Even non-gamers are pretty... 

Most of you have probably already figured this out, but MMOs – especially MMORPGs – are not what the regular, non-gaming public thinks of when you mention video games. I remember my own opinions of WoW before I started playing, when it was just my son and (ex)husband who were the addicts; despite the fact that I very much enjoyed console games, WoW seemed like it had too much attraction –... 

The time has come to look at the bigger picture in Azeroth and see what else is going on outside of Darnassus and Orgrimmar.  World of Warcraft has obliterated subscriber and subscription records for any online game to date by creating a solid world with oodles of things to do – even if you aren’t a gamer – and holding the attention of those signing into the servers more than any other... 

What happens when you take Baseball great Curl Shilling, award-winning fantasy and sci-fi author R.A. Salvatore and brilliant comic-book author, and artist Todd McFarlane along with a design studio purchased from THQ called “Big Huge Games” (Creators of the Rise of Nations trilogy of games as well as Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties) to create Mr. Shilling’s wet dream come... 

Sometimes I hate friends. Being a nerd means participating in tedious conversations with friends who tend to delve into the mundane details of not only how things work, also why and what for, and why you need to know.  A common nerd problem I run into most of the time with friends is the fact I could care less about a Linux-based operating system running on a computer.  Some say I should send back... 

My guild turned 5 in December, but I’m conflicted over whether this is technically a birthday or an anniversary. Whichever it is, it’s gonna be a PARTAY! I’ve watched as other guilds on my server celebrate their anniversaries in grand style – one threw a drunken raid of ICC, and another throws a grand Gala every year. One night of partying isn’t nearly enough for my guild,... 

Dual-wielding is for n00bs.  The Darkness 2 takes the story-arc created with the first Darkness game and puts it on a linear shooter through a short psychosomatic made-for-television movie, of sorts.  The biggest change, if you enjoyed the first Darkness, is the change in how the game itself plays.  Darkness 2 is more of a Battlefield or Call of Duty-style game where the first Darkness had more... 

I’ll tell you a quick story to give you a rudimentary history of my brutal and inhumane struggles with the Rainbow Six franchise:  In 1998, I bought a video game titled “Rainbow Six” from Media Play who is no longer in business.  The game came on four CD’s and took over a half an hour to install on my cheap-ass Packard Hell (in part…it was modified to the teeth) desktop computer.  Rainbow... 

I love games based on historical facts such as the Total War series of games, and I also enjoy the games where the facts blur together into the proverbial fire for the more fantastical element of storytelling.  King Arthur II is more of the latter.  The quests and trials of King Arthur the human have been well documented many times in different cultures, however this version is more along the lines... 

When Dragon Soul was released I vented about the ease of the current raid tier content and predicted that it would drive hardcore raiders away. And though I haven’t studied world logs and kept up with the actual statistics, anecdotal evidence indicates that I was pretty much on the money: a lot of higher-skilled players have left and progression on our server (and others) slowed to a near-stop. Blizzard...