Christopher Colon
Ohio - http://
Chris is a professional has been playing MMOs since they were called MUDs.
We have news of the first Conan expansion! Plus, we just went to Zeltana and Conall's Valley! Go check em' out and then go roofjumping with our MMO Urban Exploration article or tour the guild cities!
Turbine has teamed up with Warner to release Moria! We toured Book 14, the last patch. Plus scan our new info on the Mines of Moria expansion, our vanity pets guide, and our intro to LotRO housing!
The Lich King Beta is open! The WoW recruit-a-friend program is all-new, and we've got a WWI roundup. Check our WoW guide for Guild Wars players and an opinion on WoW vs. WAR comparisons.
Massively has been everywhere! We went to E3, we went to PAX, we went to Gen Con, and we went to Fan Faire! Plus make sure to go deep into our Warhammer launch coverage.
Waagh! Massively goes to WAR with the Elves of Warhammer! Check out our PAX 2008 coverage for dev talks, and then look into the state of the game, 'ask a Beta tester', and a Beta tester's journal!
Christopher Colon
Ohio - http://
Chris is a professional has been playing MMOs since they were called MUDs.
Christopher Colon
Ohio - http://
Chris is a professional has been playing MMOs since they were called MUDs.
Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Game mechanics, Opinion, Casual, Humor
Filed under: Sci-fi, Huxley, Culture, New titles, Casual, Humor
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Real life, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Opinion, Casual, Roleplaying, Humor

Have you ever fallen in love online? Have you ever met that someone on an MMO that excited you to the point where the addiction of the game mixed with the addiction to discovery of this desirable stranger creates a high so strong that your heart skips just to see that special someone's name pop up on your friends list, to where you ache to hear that Ventrilo voice, to where you get turned on just by flirting while your game fueled creative mind is ready to race into realms of dream-time in a wave of delight, allure, and pleasure that the dingy world of Earth so rarely offers in this lifetime?
Um, me neither.
But, you know, should that happen, the Dungeon Curmudgeon here has some tips on how to handle your iFeelings for your iBabe or iBeaux for when you're together in the heart but not together in the flesh, accumulated from years of watching virtual romances become real or not-so-real love.
Filed under: World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Events, real-world, Opinion, Roleplaying, Humor

"So what's to know about playing MMOs?" you might ask. "Where else can you go to learn that life has no consequences, just future runs at drops? To endure requests from people begging you to please do complicated quests for them so that they can have red dye on the armor they'll replace tomorrow? To listen to others proudly shout out their "deep understanding" of complex political, economic, or scientific concepts they doubtless gained from mining virtual iron ore for six hours a day? To spend peaceful weekday down time telling socially inept children– some of whom are in their 30s and 40s – to STFU?"
Well, sure, there's that. And I've been playing online games since 1990, so I've seen all that aplenty. I'm what you'd call a Dungeon Curmudgeon –a guy who has been around long enough to have seen the ins and outs of many an MMO, been to the meet and greets, watched the n00bs come and go, and even remember when w00t wasn't a word. (And it still isn't as far as I am concerned -- l33tspeak is Pig Latin for the Internet -- except that the dictionary people haven't figured that out yet).
Yet looking beyond the archetype of the teen-aged moustached, pizza-faced veneer of social ineptitude, something more complex and curious is happening. You see, I think MMOs are the finishing schools of the Internet.
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, Culture, Events, real-world, Opinion, Humor




| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Dragon*Con | Aug 29-Sept 1 |
| Penny Arcade Expo | Aug 29-31 |
| Warhammer Online Launch | Sept 18 |