Ballerium is a free-to-play MMO RTS from Majorem and Sleepy Giant. I will definitely be giving it a spin sometime in the new year. Not that I expect much. The video on this page does not inspire a lot of confidence. Be awed by the path-finding through the forest. Count the number of times the […]
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Explaining the Pause
April 21st, 2007 · 8 Comments · Board Games, MMO
The lack of updates in the last couple of days has been mostly because my gaming time has been consumed with two things. First, I puttered around with the Lord of the Rings Online open beta. It’s cute, but probably not cute enough to hold me any longer than World of Warcraft did. Which means […]
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Follow the Lemmings
February 9th, 2007 · 18 Comments · Me, MMO
I finally submitted to the years of peer pressure and Burning Crusade hype. I now have a World of Warcraft account. For now, it’s just a single level 10 Tauren. And thankfully I’ve had some friends and a guild to lend me a hand and give me some advice – no twinking unless free bags […]
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The Persistent RTS
January 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · MMO, RTS
Wahoo Studios thinks it has the formula for the elusive real time strategy persistent world. (Read Joh Callaham’s interview with Jason Faller on Firing Squad.) No word about the game, dubbed Saga, on the company site, though. The interview covers the usual basic bullet point stuff – factions, units, what “persistent” means…what’s not clear is […]
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The Cultural Divide
January 16th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Me, MMO
A year ago, I wrote about how everyone’s love of Oblivion was leaving me out in the cold. A hot, new title that became the game de jour for weeks. I eventually addressed that and found that they were mostly right – love it or hate it, Oblivion is a game worth talking about. (I […]
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