I once tried to level a World of Warcraft character usually only Discovery XP, experience rewarded whenever your character discovers a new location in the world. I made it to level 6 before giving up. Boingboing has a link to an interesting WoW Insider article about a much more tenacious WoW player trying [...]

Nintendo of Europe has a brand spankin’ new Advance Wars: Days of Ruin video up on their site. Don’t be confused by the “Dark Conflict” banner, however. Instead, think of it as a prime opportunity learn about video game localization. I’ll let Wikipedia do the honors.
In case you haven’t been following the [...]

38 Studios, the MMO developer founded by Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schillings, is old news. However, just this week at CES, the baseball star announced this would be his last year playing America’s favorite pastime. He told journalists “I’m done. This is my final year,” saying he plans to devote all of [...]

You don’t have to wait until this March for the recently announced Codemasters Online Connect 2008 event in Birmingham, England to hear about the shiny new DirectX 10 graphical update coming to LoTRO… because you’re hearing about it now. Funny how that works, eh?
MMORPG.com has some comparison shots showing off the new graphical wizardry [...]

The oft-delayed Crysis 1.1 patch is finally available, according to GameBump. Despite the surprisingly hefty 139 MB file size, the patch doesn’t really do a whole heck of a lot. Besides the performance tweaks and bug fixes typical for initial post-release patching, Crytek also snuck in a few balances changes that are easily [...]

The new year gets started for real this week, with a wide selection of middle-of-the-road titles.

Pick of the Week: Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
Kingdom of Fire sheds it’s pseudo-strategy, Dynasty Warriors-inspired elements and gets back to the basics: the hacking and the slashing. Circle of Doom is an honest-to-goodness action RPG complete with online [...]

Certainly not an everyday happening, loads of World of Warcraft players banded together to march in support of their favorite political candidate. Ron Paul has a strong internet following, and this is the latest stunt pulled by his followers to draw attention to his policies.
As expected, many players taunted or even /spit on the [...]

Chris Taylor has always been on the cutting edge of RTS design, having birthed both Total Annihilation and the recent Supreme Commander. Gas Powered Games’ newest title, however, promises action on a significantly smaller scale. 1up has the scoop on Demigod, a DotA-inspired online PC game that puts players in control of a [...]

The mystery is over. The most played Xbox Live game of the year has been revealed. What could it be?
Oh, it’s Halo 3?
Okay, that’s not much of a surprise. Following that up is a slight surprise, Gears of War. A year after it’s release, Epic’s 3rd person shooter is kicking… err, shooting. Had Call of [...]

Regardless of how you feel about the game itself, World of Warcraft’s strength as a movie making tool is undeniable, having elevated the medium to heights never imagined in the days of The Marathon Vidmaster Challenge. Our own love for WoW machinima is already well documented. After nearly two years in production, [...]

Wired’s Game | Life blog is reporting that a Chinese MMO player (surname Zhang) sued Shandra Interactive after they failed to return his in-game items… and won. The game company has been ordered to pay Zhang the equivalent of $680 for items originally taken as part of a police investigation into the sale of [...]

Six games this week will hit the Wii, each a Gamestop exclusive. If you needed further proof the Wii is becoming home to cheap, quick, sloppy junk, here it is. Four of them are racing games, and it’s guaranteed these will use the same engine. Developer Mud Duck uses the same strategy, though they typically [...]