Don’t be too surprised if this week’s encounter starts out as a bit of a brick wall.  There is a very clear step up in difficulty going into the last wing of Dragon Soul, when compared to the first half of the raid.  While not every boss will be tossing curve-ball mechanics, all of them will press the raid’s raw numbers – success will depend on players’ abilities with their own class as... 

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted here, primarily because I’ve been angsting over the current content and how to express what I really feel about it. Though at last report I was exceedingly delighted with patch 4.3, “Hour of Twilight”, let me assure you that the bloom is most depressingly off the bush. Now I am instead both wary of and worried about what the next few months... 

As we move into the official launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic I thought it seemed like an appropriate time to offer guidance and suggestions to those who might be new to the game, or new to MMORPGs in general (we all know someone who would never give World of Warcraft a shot, but loves Star Wars enough to try out a new game). Some of this is advice I’ve gotten from playing previous games, some... 

The goal this week is to finish the Siege of Wyrmrest portion of the Dragon Soul raid.  Three of the four bosses in this opening segment have been cleared — only one to go.  Next up, Hagara the Stormbinder.  A friendly reminder that the encounter discussion here is based upon the 10-man normal difficulty version of this raid.  If you want to talk Raid Finder, I’d say try it out for yourself. ... 

We may be injured, but that’s not stopping us from putting out another episode of the podcast, especially with Star Wars: The Old Republic on the way. Listen to your morphine-addled hosts (no, we’re not really on morphine) as we talk about the new Star Wars MMORPG with thoughts that aren’t in our written material. We also discuss what games look good to put under the tree for the... 

As I mentioned yesterday, it’s a big week for Star Wars: The Old Republic, with early access opening up in the next few days to players who pre-ordered the game. I know quite a few people who pre-ordered blindly, confident in the product that is Star Wars. I also know others like myself who pre-ordered on the heels of participating in part of the closed beta testing. I got to participate in two separate... 

Just as a heads up: we’re probably going to be pretty heavy on Star Wars content this week. It’s hard to avoid the fact that it’s a big week for the space opera, especially on the video game side. Star Wars Galaxies shuts down after eight years of serving as the MMORPG of choice, while Star Wars: The Old Republic brings in a new game for fans, set in a world even longer ago. We’ll be offering... 

I went to GameRankings.com and did a search for the top fifty games released in 2011.  The only caveat is that there are still games coming out in December, but unless there are some sleepers (such as Mario Kart 7) this list should hold up when looking to find the best games on the shelves or online for all the major systems. This year, I wanted to make a poll to have the readers themselves pick which... 

It hasn’t taken any time at all for guilds and pick-up groups alike to tear through the Dragon Soul raid, and since progress is being made so quickly, we’re covering the next two bosses this week.  Things get a little more complicated this time around, but still nothing to stress over.  Some of the mechanics are even rather amusing!  So let’s quit wasting time and get started before we’re... 

I’m surprised Blizzard hasn’t taken Perfect World to court.  After playing Forsaken World, the similarities between World of Warcraft and Forsaken World are too numerous to list here in this review.  The biggest similarity is play-style with Forsaken Worldcasting spells and effects by using the common leveling system between classes to defeat mobs and bosses.But I’m getting ahead of...