Scott Jennings

Finally bowing to the call of Asheron and picking up a copy today. I’ll try to have a somewhat unbiased review up soon.

Raging debate of the moment pretty much everywhere in UO now is skill gain and has it been nerfed. Here’s what I see as the problems with skill gain: Trade skills are too hard to increase. Specifically smithing and bowcrafting, although most of the others aren’t pretty either.

From Blizzard’s PR department comes this… The release date of Diablo II has been the subject of great speculation in recent weeks as the result of delays in starting the beta test. After discussing the time needed to fully play-balance, polish, beta test and debug the game, we

Gamespot, that utterly unimpeachable news source (as all of you with twinked Asheron’s Call characters know!) is now reporting that Eidos is buying out Todd “Dominion ROCKS!” Porter and Jerry “God Of All Art” O’Flaherty and assuming control of Ion Storm. Ion Storm, for those of you who

At Lum th’Mad, we’re equal opportunity GM-bashers, and lately we’ve been getting wind of a whole lotta EQ GM hate. One original “intent” of Everquest was to enforce that everyone in EQ had a proper fantasy-sounding name. As anyone who actually plays EQ can tell

Neverwinter Nights II not enough for you? In a move surprising absolutely no one, Bioware announced last night that no, they are not idiots and yes, they will be doing a sequel to last year’s smash RPG hit. More details here.