Happy New Year! Chris and Rafe get together to talk about their Christmas video game swag (Catherine for Chris, Batman: Arkham Asylum and City for Rafe). We follow up on a few stories we’ve talked about in the past few episodes – responses to that awesome Modern Warfare advertising Rafe liked and the Half-Life rumors) before discussing more in depth thoughts about Star Wars: The Old... 

Star Wars: The Old Republic may be the newest entry to the MMORPG game, but it still gets to suffer the growing pains of other games. It seems there are some elements of gaming culture that we can’t overcome, regardless of how many games come out. One of those aspects is poor behavior on the part of the players. Yup, no matter how new a game title may be, the same asshat players manage to ruin it... 

I’ve been a World of Warcraft player for several years now, having started the game back in vanilla, leaving to focus on a return to college, and then returning for a good couple of years. Before that, I always credit EverQuest as being my primary MMORPG. I tend to forget that I didn’t leave EQ for WoW, however. I left EverQuest for a different game: Star Wars Galaxies. At the time, Star Wars Galaxies...