Phasers Set to Hype

I haven’t been playing much of anything over this holiday season in the lead-up to Star Trek Online starting Open Beta in January. For me, half the fun of starting a new MMO is getting immersed in the lore, the community, the sites and podcasts and blogs that I’m going to visit for the duration, [...]

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Mytheon: One to Watch

Mytheon is an upcoming F2P game that has slipped by my radar thus far, though I’m not sure why more people aren’t talking about it (or why TrueGames/Petroglyph isn’t promoting it more). Since MMORPG.com has now previewed it, color me officially interested. It sounds like some fantastical Gods and Heroes/Guild Wars/Wizard 101 hybrid – in [...]

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Fully Assimilated

My gaming partner and I have been rather inactive on the MMO front recently, due to Real Life(tm) constraints. We play infrequently enough that we only racked up 7 days played out of our 14-day free Vanguard trial, and did not make it off the trial island during that time. I also logged on to [...]

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2011 Cannot Come Quickly Enough

I am thisclose to throwing the biggest temper tantrum about Guild Wars 2‘s release date, on the heels of this new trailer hitting the internet. Why can’t it be 2011 yet? Why do I have to flounder about, sampling every MMO under the sun, when I know my one true love has yet to even [...]

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Two Space MMOs Enter, One Leaves

I am having one heck of a time trying to navigate my inner hype-meter regarding BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic and Cryptic’s Star Trek Online. Several months ago my excitement was purely along Trek lines as Cryptic showed off the range of character looks you could create and gave tantalizing glimpses of the final [...]

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Mythos Hype

It seems I’m in the minority regarding the latest news about Mythos returning to public scrutiny, with a revamped website and a teaser trailer on display. I’ve read several comments here and there pledging support of Runic Games and Torchlight rather than this usurper of the Runic Games developers’ previous brainchild. While it does feel [...]

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