I blame my elementary school for shaping me into the nerd I am today. I am completely serious. To add some context to this article, I was just recently tuned into this company Man Crates, a company that sells gifts for men packed in crates that must be opened with a crowbar, themed around all kinds … Continue reading “[Column] Retro Gamer Stories”
Snail Games yesterday performed a server merge on Age of Wushu to address the game’s low population. January 7th marked the mergers of the White Tiger and Golden Kirin servers into the Blue Dragon server. As a result of the merger, all Jianghu rankings were reset as well as school rankings, NPC relationships, and guild … Continue reading “Age of Wushu Merging Servers”
Frequently Asked is a new column relating to MMOs and common questions that I receive and see on other websites. If you have any questions of your own, feel free to drop a comment. 1. Why does NCSoft shut down everything? Short answer: money. The longer answer is that NCSoft has made a lot of risky investments that … Continue reading “Frequently Asked: NCSoft”
RuneScape is going to be a regular game for the Diaries From column, published on the last Thursday of each month and covering the entire month’s worth of updates. 1. Prifddinas Part 2 – 9/10 The elven city of Prifddinas has quickly become one of my favorite updates of 2014, and not just because I’ve … Continue reading “Diaries From RuneScape: November In Review”
“In this particular dungeon, there is a boss that can turn you into a cow.” All I need to hear, game of the year every year! My first moment of experience with booting up the Project Gorgon early alpha was reading a note warning me that bosses in the game can inflict curses upon … Continue reading “Alpha Matter: Project Gorgon”
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes from The Secret World. While going through missions that I had passed up, I once again found myself in the Innsmouth Academy. Now, I get the whole idea of blood splattered people adding to the horror element, but it wasn’t until a mission had me head upstairs to grab a file … Continue reading “MMOrning Shots: Take A Bath”
Am I the only one who has noticed that stupid people have a habit of doing stupid things? Case in point? Back in 2007, teenagers on Long Island started a fad of running into fences to knock them over. Every once in a while you hear on the news that someone called a bomb threat … Continue reading “Lessons From 2013 #7: Taking Threats Seriously”
The prospects of success for the Neo Geo X, SNK’s revival of the classic system, have always been rather questionable. After all, this was the gaming system that many of us wanted yet none of us could have. Unless you were an adult with a fair amount of expendable cash, or a kid born into … Continue reading “Not That Massive: Neo Geo X Terminated”
I almost decided to hold this off until a Community Monday, but in a way it is almost too good to hold back. I found this post floating around several MMO forums, so stay with me if you have already read it. It is a letter by a gamer who refuses to play Darkfall because … Continue reading “Daily Dose of Melodrama”
We love Age of Wushu here at MMO Fallout, in that special way that I should probably point out that this article isn’t sponsored or backed by Snail Games in any way. Snail Games is offering five bags of Age of Wushu branded stuff to gamers who buy a copy of the retail edition from … Continue reading “Buy Age of Wushu At Gamestop, Win A Swag Bag”
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