I haven’t got my hopes up too much on the upcoming Sci-fi MMOs, yet despite the closure of Tabula Rasa this year and the “maybe/maybe not” status of Stargate worlds, there appears to be a strong selection of games in the pipeline. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not the greatest fan of Fantasy genre MMOs, [...]
Posted in Games on 22-Jul-2009 at 11:25 pm UTC
Tags: Games, Global Agenda, MMO
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On Thursday I was in work and ploughing through my work and enjoying some background noise of a batch of podcasts I had recently downloaded. One of these was Warp-drive active, which started with a rather fun “Boys are back in town” which made me chuckle.
Later that day on my bus journey home was listening [...]
Posted in Console, Film & TV, Games, Music, podcasts on 22-Jul-2009 at 08:29 pm UTC
Tags: Thin Lizzy, War of the Worlds
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I’ve not talked about my older console habits and after hearing the Listen Up (1Up) podcast talking fondly of their favourite old games I remembered the hours of fun that I had playing Super MarioKart on the SNES. There were few games on the console that where played as fanatically by my friends and [...]
Posted in Game Diary on 20-Jul-2009 at 11:20 pm UTC
Tags: Console Gaming, SNES, Super MarioKart
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The City of Heroes purchasable add-ons appears to be doing well, a third Super Booster pack has been recently released and additional Architect slots are available to buy, for those Level designers among us.
Ask anyone that has played CoX and you’ll tend to get the same story, one of the most enjoyable parts of the [...]
Posted in Games on 16-Jul-2009 at 11:37 pm UTC
Tags: City of Heroes/Villains, RMT
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I know I’m not the only person that thinks labelling a game as a “WOW-killer” is anything but hype-mongering, but I’ve being wondering if these claims are having other effects.
Naturally game companies aren’t using the term, they can be found in articles that feel MMOs should all be judged in a similar way and [...]
Posted in Games on 14-Jul-2009 at 06:53 pm UTC
Tags: World of Warcraft, wow killer
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