SOE's Casual MMO Has a Head Start on LEGO Universe
With Free Realms taking over his
household, Danny
"Ralsu" Gourley had almost forgotten that NetDevil is hard at work on a
LEGO MMO titled LEGO Universe.
The building block dynamic has mass...
When Danny "Ralsu" Gourley got an urge to compete against
another player in a hand of the Free
Realms Trading Card Game, he realized that every
minigame in Sony Online Entertainment's...
Mabinogi’s Expansion Offers Adventure and Exploration
Danny "Ralsu" Gourley continues to hunt for quality free MMOs, but
sometimes he has a hard time stopping playing his favorites long enough
to try something new. This week, he examines the...
Danny "Ralsu" Gourley has been taking a lot of heat over his
choices
for the best free-to-play games. He thought it'd be easy to explain his
selection criteria until he sat down to do it....
Story of Runes of Magic Launch the Stuff of Classic Literature in Gaming
Danny "Ralsu" Gourley got a taste of how
astrologists who write for
their local newspapers must feel when a Sagittarius finds a $5 bill
after reading that "your finances will improve." This...
If Atlantica Can Do It for Free, P2P Games Have No Excuses
Danny "Ralsu" Gourley frequently tells Ton Hammer
readers that games
need to grow out and up at the same time to stay fresh. It's no small
feat for a F2P game to do that since even P2P games...
Nothing is more disappointing than a wimpy
performance when it
counts--at launch. As Danny "Ralsu" Gourley makes his way from one F2P
title to another, he keeps finding the same lackluster...
A diminished economy means that companies have look
for ways to
decrease production costs. For MMOG fans, that spells smaller worlds at
launch with less variety. Drawing from his experience...
With World of
Warcraft
dominating the MMOG market, a number of games
try to appeal to children to raise the next generation of players with
notion that there is more to life than WoW. This...
Sometimes F2P guru Danny "Ralsu" Gourley worries that future gamers
will find his corpse buried in a tar pit, a fossil of an old-school
gamer who seeks to use his wit rather than his reflexes in...