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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 [...]

23Feb2010 | Mick James | 2 comments | Continued
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Aion Group Downs Tahabata (Yay!)… Gets Blue Helm (Boo!)

PvE progression may not be as cutthroat yet in Aion compared to established games like World of Warcraft, but it’s coming along nicely with the recent downing of Tahabata, the final boss in the Dark Poeta dungeon.

NCSoft reports that a multi-Legion group on Ariel server downed the three-headed dragon in one of its S rank [...]

19Feb2010 | Mick James | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

21Jan2010 | Mick James | 0 comments | Continued
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Epic Verdict: A l33t Legacy and Freexperience Freefall

Welcome to the Epic Verdict where we report MMO trends fast, straight, and most importantly, with a bias. Here you’ll find snap judgments on game developments in the World of Warcraft, Aion, and dozens more. Sometimes we even pick on a baby murloc or two.
We set our sights in the world of Eve Online, where [...]

19Jan2010 | Mick James | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

15Jan2010 | Mick James | 0 comments | Continued
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Epic Verdict: Flame Wars are for Kids

Welcome to the Epic Verdict where we report MMO trends fast, straight, and most importantly, with a bias. Here you’ll find snap judgments on game developments in the World of Warcraft, Aion, and dozens more. Sometimes we even pick on a baby murloc or two.
We begin in the land of forum flame wars where expletives [...]

7Jan2010 | Mick James | 2 comments | Continued
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Gamer Gifts and MMO Freebies

Christmas Eve is right around the corner and the gifts are piling up around the fern tree. Call it gamer’s intuition, but I doubt these shiny boxes will have anything cooler than a solid-brick fruitcake or a murloc shirt. So if you’re a bit unlucky, don’t fret. Here are some awesome stuff to [...]

24Dec2009 | Mick James | 1 comment | Continued
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Epic Verdict: Beta Test Booms, Murloc Merch Blows

Welcome to the Epic Verdict where we report MMO trends fast, straight, and most importantly, with a bias. Here you’ll find snap judgments on game developments in the World of Warcraft, Aion, and dozens more. Sometimes we even pick on a baby murloc or two.

It’s all in good fun, so let’s get started in the [...]

21Dec2009 | Mick James | 1 comment | Continued
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Solarius and Winter Veil: A Roleplayer’s POV

Pop culture has painted quite an accurate stereotype of online gamers (bespectacled, introvert and sci-fi fan), but it’s often bothered me  how we’re clumped together with regards to play style. Not all of us are after mere hacking and slashing, because frankly, that’s just one aspect of MMOs.
One can often find item fanatics collecting rare [...]

17Dec2009 | Mick James | 0 comments | Continued
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New Rewards From WoW’s Icecrown Citadel

Warcraft’s latest patch 3.3 will be giving rewards for achievements in the Icecrown Citadel raid in the form of armored Frost Wrym mounts mined from early builds.
This armored Frost Wrym model along with spells named Frostbrood Vanquisher and Frostbrood Vanquisher Flight, which could provide insight into some Icecrown Citadel encounters, was earlier discovered thanks to [...]

19Nov2009 | ET-anna | 0 comments | Continued
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