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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
I made Captain in Star Trek Online tonight; that’s level 31 if you’re all crass and number-using. We leave those sorts of things to our holographic life forms. They really seem to enjoy it. As befits a captain, I traded in my Science officer blues for the red of Command. While I was at Deep … Read more
Allods Online is fun enough, and I guess it’s cool that everyone’s characters speak and read Russian because, hey, it’s an overseas game not afraid to show its roots. Or too cheap to localize the voice and art assets, one or the other. Yet I still feel a little uneasiness toward the game. Not because … Read more
I am playing too many MMOs, it’s true… but there’s some good gaming out there. In EVE Online, the Ishtar Project saw a minor victory as I sold my two run Ishtar blueprint for 30 million ISK after only a couple of days on the market. That worked out incredibly well. In another stroke of … Read more
KingsIsle is introducing a new mount type today — Wings! They attack to your back and give you the same faster movement speed as any regular mount! They are also adding back more insanely powerful Crowns gear that they had originally, for a price. The old uber gear only went up to level 35, but … Read more
After helping to save dozens of people from the destruction of their doomed Allod — an island floating in the Twisting Nether — my gibberling crew defeated a ravening demonologist, lured a marauding demon into a trap that meant its doom, defended a powerful sorceror as she strived to keep the island afloat just a … Read more