Month: July 2012

Video gamers spend a lot of time being someone else. We might be Kratos, or Commander Shepard, or Travis Touchdown. Once MMORPGs get in on the action, we become our own creation, characters that we build from the ground up to...

Lord of the Rings Online has weathered the storms of the MMORPG waters with considerable skill, and now it comes to the safe harbor of a new expansion. Riders of Rohan introduces mounted combat to the game, bringing with it...

American McGee is the fellow behind some of the more interesting games in recent memory, most famously the Alice series that throws our young heroine into a murky, dream-like slaughterhouse. He’s also part of Spicy Horse,...

Christmas is canceled, too. Ubisoft games are caged by the shackles of uPlay, an online authorization service that works with the DRM they bolt on because customers must be treated like criminals. As it turns out, the uPlay...

Origin is a DRM and download service similar to Steam but worse in every possible way. Gamers loathe Origin because it doesn’t work, and worse, locks them out of games they would really like to play. There’s also the...