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Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) has now been out for over a year, and Wolfshead wrote up solid commentary on the game’s status. We won’t delve into the review as a whole because we haven’t played LotRO, and have no plans to either. Nonetheless, we’ll take some time to comment on one of [...]

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We just caught the minimum system specifications (MSS) for Mythic’s upcoming Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (WAR) title over at The Greenskin, and were a bit dismayed at the differences between WAR’s MSS and those suggested for World of Warcraft (WoW). While The Greenskin’s Snafzg claims that WAR’s requirements “don’t appear to be much higher” than [...]

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Modern history tells us that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson designed Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), and first published the game in 1974. Ignoring its geeky stereotypes for a moment, D&D is chiefly remembered for its use of polyhedral dice, which were used to resolve in-game event through chance-mechanics. In the basic game, a 20-sided [...]

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No one can seriously dispute that the Diablo franchise was a major player in PC gaming. For us, Diablo 2 easily sits in the top three games occupying our time, neatly sitting beside Counterstrike and World of Warcraft (WoW). For Blizzard, this is quite a feat, as two of their titles managed to grab our [...]

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Much commentary has been made on the addictive components of MMOGs, particularly regarding the item looting system most MMOGs incorporate. In short, the grind-based reward system, compounded with random drops, is what emulates the carrot-on-a-stick for the proverbial geek racehorse. It’s the time tied to the grind, however, that compounds the disaster of addiction, because [...]

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