By Frank on March 3, 2010
Yep, that’s Everest you’re seeing. What other mountain would I have picked for this topic today? Heh.
Anyone who’s played an MMO before knows that there is an end, a top, a pinnacle to be reached that everyone aspires to and works towards. It could take the form of a level cap, the best gear in [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Aion, mmo
By Frank on March 2, 2010
It seems that Valve is at it again with some viral marketing, releasing a curious update yesterday to puzzle game darling Portal that included a new achievement and some curious radio message data. If you’re curious about the shenanigans, you can check Jim Sterling’s latest article on Destructoid about the Portal craziness, or alternatively the [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged half-life episode 3, portal, portal 2, Valve, viral marketing
By Frank on February 24, 2010
Recently I began playing the God of War series for the first time (yes, yes, I know, years behind and all that) thanks to the God of War Collection game released for the PS3. I have to say, the game’s got a kind of charm that keeps me playing, even though I’m not typically the [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, god of war
By Frank on February 19, 2010
Over at Destructoid, Jim Sterling’s created a bit of a stir with his two articles regarding the “artsy” nature of games – one in which he decries the pretentiousness of indie “art” games for eschewing gameplay, and one in which he has to clarify what he was trying to say. The camp of opposition to [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged destructoid, Gaming
By Frank on February 18, 2010
So maybe I’m just a slight bit biased, but being from Chicago and being a local Midwesterner, I have to go ahead and support local stores that have done good and made it big. Look, we may have lost the Marshall Field’s name to that accursed New York Macy’s, and the Sears Tower to some [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Threadless
By Frank on February 18, 2010
It’s interesting how sometimes companies you might have interacted with on a daily basis in the past return to haunt your present – or in this case, my future.
Moon over Endor’s Ayane has an article up about developer Simutronics, who recently re-organized to deal with the demand for HeroEngine, an engine used by a variety [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic
By Frank on February 17, 2010
Syp has a notion regarding returning to an MMO, with LOTRO being the most recent foray back from other shores. Syp talks a bit about his experiences logging on, what’s changed, and how the community reacted to his need to accomplish game tasks.
I’m seeing this trend more and more among my fellow bloggers and MMO [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Warhammer Online, WoW
By Frank on January 26, 2010
Ah, game trailers. Those little bits of eye-candy that tease us with epic details and amazing visuals. Ocular pornography for geeks who like games, I like to call them. You’ll see the latest trailer I assaulted my eyes with at the bottom of this post.
It got me thinking, really. I mean, gamers today react in [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged game trailer, Gaming, tera, you tube
By Frank on January 21, 2010
While it seems that my love affair with Star Trek Online may be coming to an end at some point in the near future, the game itself is not without some saving graces. Sure, I’ve discovered that ship combat consists of slamming the “fire at will” key while speaking in badly imitated Picard-speak, and the [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged massively multiplayer online games, star trek online
By Frank on January 20, 2010
If you’re a player of an NCSoft MMO, you might be feeling a bit nervous lately, because recent concerns and hacks on account security have raised some definite red flags with the distributor. Some of the victims were compromised using the traditional methods of unsafe websites and phishing scams, but others have apparently been found [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Aion, NCsoft
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