Like any good subject, Blizzard’s latest online purchase for World of Warcraft, the Celestial Steed (i.e., the Sparklepony) created a lot of back and forth commentary around the blogosphere. Thankfully, some clarity poked through the clouds. Guild Wars also released another buyable costume set for the War in Kryta chapter of Guild Wars Beyond. Parallel … Continue reading Reverse Collector’s Edition
Warhammer Online is doing something pretty cool with four lucky bloggers: Gaarawarr, Mykiel, Shadow-war, and Werit. They invited the four to visit Mythic Entertainment and sit down with the WAR Design team for interviews and discussion. There is a real heavy emphasis on interactivity via Twitter too. I love seeing stuff like this because not … Continue reading Developer Recognition
My husband has been playing the open beta for Mortal Online for the last week. All throughout this process he has been excitedly showing me everything that’s going on in his game time and talking about the game non-stop. For example, he was excited to tell me about how he was chopping at a tree … Continue reading Mortal Online
This last weekend during the Canthan New Year for Guild Wars I made it to multiple celestial summonings (where I got goody bags for our district feeding the beast things like half-digested boot consomme) and completed the festival quests on multiple characters (netting more goodies). I tore apart countless fortunes in the hopes that one … Continue reading Thousand-Year Achievements
Just a brief note, this one is worth checking out in my opinion. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your neighbors, tell your dog, Allods Online is going Open Beta! The Allods Online team is pleased to announce that the Open Beta will officially go live on February 16th, 2010! All players will be … Continue reading Allods Online Announces Open Beta
A lot of blogs are talking about Star Trek Online’s successes and failures. Atari announced today that STO had over one million accounts activated. The blogs like MMORPG.com, gamerant, and even us at killtenrats have noticed. However, we’ve also noticed that we’ve heard this story before. We heard it from Age of Conan, we heard … Continue reading Star Trek Online: Second to WOW?
Today was the last day of beta for Star Trek Online. For the last day of beta, the developers gave the fanboys a chance to play what they were asking for. A lot of PVP fanboys were asking for open-world PVP. That was part of the event. Klingons could fly all the way to the … Continue reading STO: Beta Events
“Talking” with a friend on chat last night, I mentioned that, despite how I appear online, I am rather quiet and reserved in-person. (Ethic also seems to be the strong silent type, so you can imagine that our occasional get-togethers look like The Adventures of Dour and Taciturn.) You may have noticed a bit of … Continue reading Chatty, Online and Off
For months now, thousands of people have been speculating and arguing about the names of the eight classes in SWTOR. Not since the debates about the identity of the “5th Cylon” in Battlestar Galactica has it felt like this. The message boards have been bathed in flame on a semi-permanent basis as titles like “Mandalorian” … Continue reading The Old Republic – All Classes Revealed
Elder Game is one of my favorite MMO blogs, and each post is worth its weight in gold (especially at about 12 a year). Eric gave me a morning chuckle hypothesizing the creation of Champions Online’s profanity filter such that the filter started attacking NPC text. When NPCs are saying stuff like ““put that $#@*^!& a … Continue reading Reverse Ad-Libs