Making It So: Designing Star Trek Online

Sir, a large post just decloaked straight ahead. 
Shields up!  Red alert!
Cryptic Studios has finally launched the official Star Trek Online website since the game’s last developer, Perpetual Entertainment, went bye-bye.  And, with the launch, fans are getting a small taste of what the game will offer.
You Are the Captain: Command your own starship as a [...]

Best Day of Defeat Source Map… Ever

My recent disgust of MMOs has caused me to go back and enjoy games that aren’t utter disappointments.  I recently wrote a review for Devil May Cry 4 (PC) for CheatCC.com, which kept me busy much longer than I anticipated.  How was it?  Besides some minor issues as a result of porting the game from [...]

PvP in MMOs: A Laughable Concept

I always get a laugh out of people who think PvPing in MMOs makes them tough.  For some reason, these people believe that their abilities as a gamer are 100% responsible for their wins.  What about the gear that gives them +15 to a skill or stat?  What about the fact that they were 3-10 [...]

RPS Users React to E3 Trailer for Warhammer Online

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has the lastest Warhammer Online E3 Trailer posted.  Take a look and then come back.  I’ll wait a few minutes…
Okay, so you watched it?  Did you happen to read some of the comments from RPS viewers?  Almost 99% of them were negative.  Although, I will say I laughed a bit when I [...]

Half Life 2: Wars

There are too many HL2 mods out there to even start counting but, even with all the mediocrity, there are a few gems to be found.  I’ve been light on the HL2 games lately, but found myself playing the new update to Day of Defeat: Source a couple days ago.  Since then, I’ve started browsing [...]

Solving the Diablo III PvP “Problem”

Seems like there has been a small fuss over how Blizzard plans to handle PvP in their upcoming RPG, Diablo III.  Of course, you may not realize it because of all the whining about the game’s brightness or some such.  Anyway, Destructoid served up a nice, short summary of the issue.  Someone posted a question [...]