20.Aug.2009 Guild Wars 2 trailer
The Guild Wars 2 trailer has come down the tubes. Watch it here. ^_^
14.Aug.2009 Ogame
I started playing Ogame, and it is the right tech tree to time sink ratio to keep me playing.
25.Jun.2009 Global Agenda
Watch the teaser trailer, funny stuff. Global Agenda Trailer
26.May.2009 Turbine annoucnes Volume II Book 8 (on Twitter)
Turbine announced Volume II Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum (coming in June).
12.Apr.2009 RPG’s and my stream of consciousness
I was playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and came across something interesting. The game is very much a classic arcade game, think the original arcade TMNT. It feels very much like a console port, the camera is jumpy, the controls don't quite "feel" right and the action/combat is very repetitive. What grabbed me though was the [...]
23.Mar.2009 Xi, ARG.
Xi, an Alternate Reality Game, based in Home, the PlayStation virtual world, has started. Worse. Excerpt. Evar.
02.Aug.2008 Lord of the Rings Online Volume 2: Mines of Moria
Turbine has put up a page on the LOTRO site with a few details of the upcoming Mines of Moria expansion. Among the highlights are legendary weapons, crafting guilds, and trait sets. There are some other things, but it is stock expansion hype (really, 200 new monsters, huh?). Check it out at http://www.lotro.com/moria.
29.Jul.2008 Microlite20
Taken from the site (http://microlite20.net/): Do you remember when the gaming table was full of pizza and soda, not rulebooks, miniatures and dungeon tiles? Do you yearn for a role-playing game that doesn’t require weight training to carry all the books? Do you want to be able to hold all the rules in your head [...]
22.Jun.2008 OSRIC, an OGL remake of the original DnD 1e
OSRIC is an open gaming platform, released as OGL. Reading through the manual, it is a pretty great tool. If someone wanted to make their own game, or to even have pen and paper role-playing without the need to buy expensive manuals, they could do it with this.
14.Jun.2008 The Games of the Moment
My current games of the moment are Lord of the Rings Online and Assassin's Creed. The presentation for Assassin's Creed really surprised me. You play as an ex-assassin in modern times who's been kidnapped by a power hungry organization. They strap you into this machine they call the Animas and have you relive your ancestor's [...]