Super troopers

We are a few days away from the final Planetside server merge, but as Dok pointed out why would you run a ‘welcome back’ month where most of the free time occurs before the planned event happens? A rather unusual set-up I think you’ll agree. I’ll be happy to play my (once were) Max level [...]

The world is just illusion

During our recent outing to London I was having a conversation with Mr Van Hemlock about element of games I find interesting. During this conversation it became very apparent that I favour games that offer me the chance to throw a little individuality to my gameplay. Shocking as it may seem I have never really [...]

The future is bright

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, [...]

Coincidence

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 [...]

Playing a game to death and back

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 [...]