Battlestar Galactica Now an MMO; Plus Six-y Pics!

Sci-fi gamers must be the new it-market this year. A crazy amount of top IP titles are developing games for them. There’s the just released Star Trek Online, the upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and now One of the Top 100 TV series of all time?
Good times indeed.
MMO publisher Bigpoint announced the [...]

Random Battlegrounds Coming to World of Warcraft

Idle time in World of Warcraft is going the way of the dodo.
It began with the launch of the random dungeon finder that made grouping for 5-man instances easy as pie. No more waiting  at a dungeon entrance while others made their way to you. Just a simple button press and servers now assemble your [...]

Aion 2.0 Landing in Korea Soon; Bayonetta Envies Blade Girls

Nothing whets my gaming appetite more than good ol’ gossip so it was a tasty treat reading the rumors for Aion 2.0, the still unnamed first expansion of Aion. According to this grapevine article, Aion 2.0 will be released this month (Korea gets first dibs, many assume) and that it has substantial updates such as [...]

Pick a Bloody Side: New Factions in Conan’s Rise of the Godslayer

There’s a reason why playgrounds are memorable for us as kids. It’s where teams are picked for dodgeball/basketball, and where one side inevitably loses their lunch money or dignity. It’s that brutal dirt pit where we learn winning = COOL.

Please, noooooo! Arm bruises are the least painful part of losing.
A couple of decades later, us [...]

More Tidbits from the Star Trek Open Beta

A few days ago, gamers warped into the Star Trek Online open beta testing  phasers armed for some deep space ass-kicking. Based on initial impressions, testers seem to be giving a strong thumbs-up to the graphics, but the gameplay is fast becoming a prickly point of contention.

Test Run. Star Trek Online enters into its largest [...]