Gaming News: Champions Online goes F2P, LOTRO EU F2P dated, Biggest ever online battle in EVE, Zynga aims to patent virtual currency, is Zynga worth more than EA?

The rise of the F2P MMO has given our gaming culture a new way to celebrate Halloween. As well as the inevitable (and inescapable) “Halloween holiday quests” there’s also now a Halloween sale, probably featuring skimpy costumes for female characters. Welcome to the future, where there’s some kind of sale on in the cash shop [...]

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The mysterious case of the cat in the night time

Imagine if you will that you have a cat. And that you decide to buy your cat a cat basket to sleep in. (If you own a cat, you will probably be laughing now at the naivety of the above statement.) So the cat basket is designed perfectly to fit a cat’s sleeping needs. It’s [...]

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Where to find more warrior information

If you play a warrior in WoW, write about the class, or are looking for more information on how to play a particular spec, look no further. Kadomi has put together an exhaustive list of warrior blogs and I’d recommend anyone who has any questions to go check it out! Also if you have any [...]

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Is this the end of the PC retail market?

There has been a lot of speculation this year about how F2P is the future of MMOs, and maybe of all PC Gaming. But where exactly do bricks and mortar retailers fit into this model? The answer is that they don’t really. Cataclysm – likely to be the biggest PC release of the year – [...]

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eSports, and Catering to the pro players

This was an interesting post spun out of a comment made by Starcraft II’s lead designer at Blizzcon last weekend. He said that promoting the game as an eSport was one of their main goals and they cut some content and toned down graphics to make sure it would run as fast as possible for [...]

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Bad News, Good News, Cute Cat

Last week I discovered my Dragon Age save files  have become somewhat corrupted, so I now can’t be bothered to finish my second playthrough, and I was relatively near the end (at the Arl Howe stuff). I’m bummed, I preferred my second character, and got so far with it, but now I’ve shelved the game [...]

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No extra slots, no wardrobe, and plenty of whines: what we learned from Blizzcon Q+A

The question and answer sessions at Blizzcon are one of the great puzzlements of the event. Do people really want to go halfway around the world and get the chance to talk to the developers in real life just so they can repeat endless whines about paladins? Why yes, yes they do. WoW Insider liveblog [...]

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Gaming News: Blizzcon, Why LOTRO F2P delay in EU, Medal of Honor and Fallout: New Vegas disappoint, Prof Layton vs Phoenix Wright, DDOS Minecraft attack, EQ2 Server Merge

  So, Blizzcon was this weekend and as I noted yesterday, there weren’t any huge announcements from Blizzard. Still, here’s a picture of the last Diablo 3 class, the Demon Hunter. And a link to the (cheesy) trailer. Badass female? check. Spiky plate armour? check. High heels? DOH!!! And of course, in D3, all classes [...]

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Blizzard were right to hold Blizzcon this year

We’re in the middle of a cold snap here, which makes it feel all too appropriate to be talking about Blizzard. (I realise that I have been very WoW-focussed here lately – I honestly don’t have time to play many games at the moment so it’s easier for me to stick to what I know.) [...]

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Thought of the Day: Getting rid of the dps role

People do commonly say that the main issue with the ‘holy trinity’ is the tank role. It’s unintuitive, unwieldy, and greedily snags a lot of the actual gameplay from PvE (ie. setting up pulls, et al). But what my tank would really like for Xmas is a pet dps. I’m happy to run with player-healers, [...]

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