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This weekend is Star Trek Online’s Second Anniversary Event.  As part of the event, STO is giving away the new Odyssey class Starship for free. Having returned to STO since it went free to play, it was an opportunity not to pass up.  Although the Odyssey requires Vice Admiral (currently Level 50, the top rank), [...]

Tobold asks the question when will WoW go free to play and how that might be implemented. Blizzard has certainly learned the lesson all good gym owners know– the neglected subscription is the ticket to success. Who among us hasn’t joined a gym or health club with a monthly fee and ahem how shall we [...]

Tobold asks the question when will WoW go free to play and how that might be implemented. Blizzard has certainly learned the lesson all good gym owners know– the neglected subscription is the ticket to success. Who among us hasn’t joined a gym or health club with a monthly fee and ahem how shall we [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still enjoying Rift quite a bit with the instance group, but I still get that Space MMO itch that just doesn’t get scratched very well. Something about the long nights of winter (even here in Northern California) calls me back to space. Eve Offline Over the holidays, I resubbed my [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still enjoying Rift quite a bit with the instance group, but I still get that Space MMO itch that just doesn’t get scratched very well. Something about the long nights of winter (even here in Northern California) calls me back to space. Eve Offline Over the holidays, I resubbed my [...]

Ah, the spirit of the season called me back to the warm bosom of New Eden.  I thought I’d take my so called pvp alt in his wee Rifter out and go see what Wilhelm and Gaff were up to way out in the wilds of 0.0… New Eden delivers, even on Christmas. 2011.12.25 08:21:00 [...]

Ah, the spirit of the season called me back to the warm bosom of New Eden.  I thought I’d take my so called pvp alt in his wee Rifter out and go see what Wilhelm and Gaff were up to way out in the wilds of 0.0… New Eden delivers, even on Christmas. 2011.12.25 08:21:00 [...]

As fate would have it, Bioware picked me for the apparently more limited beta weekend this past weekend.  As it turned out, there was only something like 6-8 servers made available rather than 40-ish from the previous weekend. The previous weekend, I had rolled four different characters on two different servers.  As it turned out, [...]

Ok, after I queued up yesterday’s post about my generally ambivalent if downright negative impression of the early SWTOR experience, I decided to soldier on (literally) in the waning ours of the beta to push my Trooper on to Level 10 and get off that god forsaken rock that is Ord Mantell. I finished the [...]

Having signed up before 11/11/11, Bioware was kind enough to invite me into the closed beta weekend event this last weekend.  With the NDA lifted, details have begun to filter out and although highly anticipated, the news I’ve been getting from trusted sources has been a bit concerning.  So, I went into the event with [...]

With the NDA coming down on the hotly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic, those of us who have been as yet snubbed by EA/Bioware and not allowed into the beta are starting to get a better view into the game. By all accounts that I’ve read so far, I think the expectation is evolution [...]