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By Request, This Week's Darkfall Post!

Eurogamer reviews Darkfall, gives it a 2/10. While playing for a few hours of reasonably solid combat only netted me a few increases in sword handling, a kindly fellow informed me that it would only take me “about six or eight hours to get good”. On further questioning, this

Second Life Played More Than World Of Warcraft... No! Really! Sex May Be Involved. Oh Wait, We'll Take Care Of That.

Wagner James Au weighs in with the news: according to Nielsen, Second Life pwns World of Warcraft, biyotch. Based on audience surveys regarding a hundred non-casual, pre-installed PC games, Second Life is the most played of all, registering average playtimes of 760 minutes a week per user, nearly a hundred

I Hate WoW Achievements

As the title says, I hate WoW achievements. Why? Because I enjoy PvP in WoW. Specifically, in battlegrounds. Yes, I’m sure that’s not hardcore enough for you leet gank groups that cut your teeth on the blood of the damned in Darkfall or blow up Titans in Eve

"Worst. Presentation. Ever."

Richard Bartle recently posted the presentation slides from his IMGDC keynote. Note: bad presenters slam their entire presentation script into each Powerpoint slide, then read droningly from each slide, word for word, as if their audience were a crowd of illiterates waiting for the shaman to explain the pretty picture

When You Put Bunny Ears On An Orc, YOU PROMOTE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Feministing dislikes Noblegarden. (I do too, but only because it’s really tedious.) To be a bit more serious, they do have a valid point, and one that could have been minimized very easily with intelligent design (for example, requiring both players to trade an item to activate the bunny

"I wonder if your feelings on this matter are clear, Lord Vader?"

Bit of a tempest in the nascent Star Wars: Old Republic community boards today, when a player discovered that such words as “gay”, “lesbian” and “cryptofascist” were added to the obscenity filter. The forums nerd raged about this until the Bioware CM, Sean Dahlberg posted that the words were being

SOE Reboots Tomorrow

Years ago, John Smedley gave a keynote address at AGDC, which amounted to, in so many words, “the future of the MMO market is in Asia. And I’m going to bring it to America.” Tomorrow, the culmination of that launches, as Freerealms moves swiftly from open beta to release.