So, as heard by Lum, the Korean MMO ArchLord has decided to drop its premium pricing model.
I’m not gonna lie to you, I’m a sucker for Korean MMOs. I love finding them, downloading them, playing them for anywhere between a week or so, to 30 seconds (Pirate King Online - I registered an account, downloaded [...]
So, according to Mr. Damion, Meridian 59 has hit 10 years old today. Holy mother of all that is living, has it been that long already? As I mentioned on his site, I remember my first experience with that game, around the era of Duke Nukem 3D, which is also 10 years old. I still [...]
For a long time, video game engines (from Wikipedia: “A game engine is the core software component of a computer or video game or other interactive application with real-time graphics”) were licensed solely by those who created first person shooters. Examples of some of those are the Quake 3 engine, the Unreal engine, or the [...]
Ho ho ho.
Here is a shot of the arena armor sets from The Burning Crusade Alpha.
Couple interesting points - there’s a ‘resilience’ stat, which is supposedly the counter to critical hits. The more of it you have, the less likely you are to get crit by spells and melee.
In addition, crit, hit, spell crit, and [...]
In any given MMO, on any given server, there is the guild pecking order. Whether you’re familiar with it or not, it exists.
Using World of Warcraft as an example, take a look at sites like the WorldOfRaids.com Naxxramas progression list. Now, obviously, this is sortable by country, Alliance or Horde, and of course, server. This [...]
So, here’s my current project.
He’s a beastly chap, I know. He has a gigantic mishmosh of armor. Baby poo leather gauntlets (I needed the +healing!), Tier 1 boots, Tier 2 shoulders… He’s basically a mess.
I’m currently in the process of trying to gear this guy up. In order to gear him up, I need better [...]
I finally got WordPress installed with a decent theme. You’d be suprised how many hideous themes there are scattered about the web.
I found what was decidedly the most non-wristcutter theme I could find.