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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
I’ve just learned that Star Trek Online is now in Open Beta! The weekend closed beta patch is being backed out, I guess it wasn’t stable enough. There will be a less sweeping patch before Open Beta goes live. The title of this post is an in-joke referring to the odd, unexplained times when Leonard … Read more
Thanks to everyone who commented on my semi-frustrated post Saturday about my cruddy DPS as a rogue newly come to Dire Maul East. Angry Gamer suggester changing my spec to Assassination, dumping my swords for daggers and relying on beefy crits to up my DPS. Myrix offered up a Combat-focused spec (as opposed to my … Read more
Bhagpuss commented on my previous WoW article that he never really cared to know how much DPS he was doing in a group, and was just satisfied if the instance went well. I can kinda see his point. It’s a game, right? As long as you’re having fun, the game is doing its job. That’s … Read more
Just what it says on the tin, a picture from my first minute in the Kung Foo! closed beta. I was lucky enough to get a closed beta invite yesterday, and after confirming this is a closed beta I COULD write about, gleefully installed it. Oh yes, I was also watching my new Glee DVDs. … Read more
What’s a Hobbesian cleric? One who is nasty, brutish and SHORT. That’s Derra. Seriously, she looked better in the character creator. But when she got washed up on that shore just to be taunted by some halfling rogue (and not even a cute one), well, I guess that’s when she lost it. When she met … Read more