There’s an excellent article in Issue 213 of The Escapist about the trials and tribulations of Mythic Entertainment’s Warhammer Online. Though by no ...

Of the three standard MMO classes, Healing is the only one that gives me little cause for comment. This is for several reasons. ...

After posting the last column, an interesting topic arose about originality in gaming. So, I’m pushing my next topic back to spend some ...

I have a confession to make: I’m addicted to trade skills. They remain one of the most tedious aspects of MMOs, but I ...

When Tolkien, the father of modern fantasy, wrote “The road goes ever ever on,” MMOs took him at his word. A large part ...

Previously we began our look at the death of story in gaming. We delved into world stories and how they have become more ...

This week, so full am I of opinion and the need to share, that I offer a topic smorgasbord, an hors d’oeuvre tray ...

Last time we began our look at how stories are dying in games. Stories occur on two levels in MMOs, the global and ...

Mark Jacobs: WarCry’s WAR Launch Day InterviewBy John Funk WarCry: First of all, congratulations! Mark Jacobs: Thank you very much. WC: It must ...

Warhammer Online: Age of ReckoningWarCry’s Official ReviewBy John Funk Big-name game releases and hype are hardly strange bedfellows, but in some ways it ...

  PAX 2008 Show Floor Report – Saturday   10:35 – Get to the convention center. At first glance, seems to be less ...

This week’s release of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures underscores once again how incredibly difficult it is to launch a high-quality massively multiplayer ...