Yes, desperately catching up on all the posts I should have made this week, but did not.
Undine Front: The Return is the second of the two episodes given you by Starfleet as you embark upon Season Two. It opens similarly to the other mission, Undine Front: Assimilation, with a sudden congregation of Borg ships causing some concern in the quadrant. Not only that, but there have been reports of non-Borg ships in the area as well. It would be terrible to lose such a fine crew, Starfleet assures us, but we need to head in and do what we can.
The USS Monterey warped in to find a Romulan science ship, the IRW Areinnye, on the losing side of a battle against some Borg spheres. The Romulan captain, Commander Taelus, does something that must have hurt her more than the Borg ever could… she calls for assistance from any nearby ships, and when we make contact, absolutely begs for Federation assistance.
Romulans are normally too proud to ever ask for help from another race, and they consider the Federation mortal enemies. What could be happening that would bring them to this end?
MMOs
Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Star Trek Online: Assimilation
I started last night on the main plot missions for Star Trek Online’s Season Two. Season Two is all about trying to find a way to form an alliance with the Undine. The Undine don’t have much respect for the beings of normal space, but the Federation hopes we can find common cause with them … Read more
Star Trek Online: Season Two goes live
Want to see what a Rear Admiral, Upper Half looks like? Just like that. My character is sporting the new Veteran’s uniform top and the fleet insignia for the Federation News Service on her left shoulder. Season Two, which arrived yesterday after considerable anticipation, brings with it not only fleet emblems, new uniform bits and … Read more
EQII Extended: Will it save or ruin EverQuest II?
Carefully avoiding the words “jumping” and “on the” and “bandwagon” here, is it true that the “freemium” business model can save the ENTIRE MMO INDUSTRY? Aside from WoW, the only MMO that doesn’t need saving? A couple of years back, you had your free to play MMOs (AKA “cheap Asian games”) and your subscription MMOs … Read more
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
(This game will absolutely hook me if it becomes the first game to ever look anything like its concept art. Alas.) We’re going to get our first look behind 38 Studios’ veil of secrecy this week when the gaming studio teases their non-MMO, Action RPG-ish game “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning“. This is not the MMO … Read more