Disclaimer: the process I document below worked for me but it may not work for you. Use it at your own risk.

WHAT THE BROKEN INSTALLATION PROCESS LOOKS LIKE

I just tried installing Allod’s Online (AO) this weekend and ran into a corrupted version problem. Here is what the install process with the corrupted version looks like:

you run the game downloader and install the game you run AO game launcher and you get a notification that you need to upgrade to the latest ..read the full article

League of Legends (LoL), is a Defense of the Ancients (DotA) game made by Riot Games. I have logged in countless numbers of hours into LoL during the past few weeks but not once did I think of it as an MMORPG until I saw this news feature on the League of Legends website. LoL was nominated for: Best MMORTS 2009 and Best New MMO 2009. After seeing this I wondered why people would consider LoL an MMO. Riot Games ..read the full article

Sony Online Entertainment has revealed that its family-oriented Free to Play MMOG Free Realms now has more than 8 million registered accounts. The game launched less than a year ago and in July of 2009 marked that it had more than 5 million registered users.

“Free Realms is more than just a virtual world for our players; it is a portal for imagination. A place where players transform their house into a jumping maze for friends to compete or a petting ..read the full article

The DRM sucks. It really does. Only… I can’t comment on exactly how sucky it is because this an opinion based on the 360 version of the game. I know! I played it on a gamepad and everything! I’ll be handing in my PC4EVA badge and gun momentarily, but before that it seemed wise to at least write up my experiences. 360 is what we had access to for review, and, while largely speaking (based upon the differences between BS1 ..read the full article

You thought they’d run out of Star Wars films to make Lego games about, right? Wrong. Now the TV series, Clone Wars, is to receive the plastic man treatment. I think it’s tempting to start rolling eyes at the prospect of another Lego game. The Lego Indies have been a bit disappointing, and the prospect of Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 may not fill everyone’s hearts with glee. But the Star Wars games were genuinely fantastic, and yet another could ..read the full article

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner – or if you’re in EverQuest II, Erollisi Day. There are temporary quests in game that you’ll want to make sure you take a peek at for rewards like nifty house items, dance moves, and even pets that will trail around after you. My first stop was North Qeynos, where there is an npc by the claymore (I won’t give everything away) with a new quest for me. Then I headed to Antonica, ..read the full article

Crikey! At last. Following their winning of the best upcoming indie game in the ModDb award, they’ve uploaded some better quality footage than what was used in the award reel. It’s still pre-alpha, they stress, and they wouldn’t normally release this into the community in this state, but they’re in a celebratory, sharing mood. Frankly, it looks fine to me. (more…)

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It’s Monday morning. As such, we should gracefully ease into the working, gaming week with a webgame. Too many to name people mailed us this over the weekend. It’s a one-button web-game based on a cheery Rick Dangerous/Spelunky theme. One Button Bob manages shows that, if you limit the context smartly, you can actually create a lot of the “traditional” gaming problems on a single button. It’s also a bit of a giggle. Go play.

Related stories: Gone Gold: Spelunky 1.0 You Can’t ..read the full article

Reverie World Studios haven’t exactly managed to come up with the most excitingly original name for their new MMORTS – it’s called “Dawn Of Fantasy” – but other elements of the game give us reason to murmur to each other over the internet, and surreptitiously keep an eye on things in the months leading up to release. Dawn Of Fantasy is a traditional orks vs humans type strategy in the style of the Total War games (so it’s a big ..read the full article

So, the Love is in the Air holiday started over the weekend.

For info on how to do the holiday quests and such, there is a great deal of info on other sites (like wow.com). Instead of writing yet another guide, I thought I’d have a little more fun.

First, apparently, love is in the air even for the turkeys & rabbits of the world. The Spring Rabbit holiday pet can apparently fall in love (and mate with) the Thanksgiving turkey pets. ..read the full article

Upcoming Lich King Weapon ChangesA couple of days ago a message was posted on the official Korean site to announce upcoming changes to the weapons dropped by the Lich King, as far as I know these changes affect both normal and heroic versions of the weapons. Thanks to locriani for the help with the translation! Quote from: Blizzard (Source) Good morning from the WoW community team.

Some of the weapons from the Lich King are not as good as we had hoped. To ..read the full article

Not too long ago I speculated that CrimeCraft might be in trouble when they announced back in Oct 09 they would start to offer an free subscription option. Today, I was browsing around CrimeCraft’s website and noticed they had a leaderboard setup for individual players and gangs.   So I decided to add up the numbers to see if I could guesstimate how many active players CrimeCraft currently has.

From an initial look, it seems that the individual leaderboard maxes out at ..read the full article

With the upgrade of the Dungeon Tool for regular 5-player instances, increasing the pool of potential PUGmates you'll be assigned to because of the cross-realm battlegroups being included, I'd love to hear from everyone else your opinion about ditching PUG parties with little or no warning.

Fact: PUG Ditchers Used To Be More Annoying Than They Are Today

Not to say that I think people should feel free to ditch groups they got into and have progressed part way through the ..read the full article

Sundays are for gathering ancient Ogres to give to my brother in a sinister North-London meeting before he sods back off to Sheffield and compiling a list of the fine (mostly) games related reading from across the week, while trying to not include a link to a new Mix-tape that’s tweaking my monkey and a track by the band I went to see last night. Tweaking my monkey? I don’t know. I just don’t know. GO LIST!

This ties in amusingly ..read the full article

I finally got back from a 3-week business trip overseas. I played Aion very sparsely in January, and the sad thing is I didn’t really miss it.

So after only 4.5 months of playing Aion, I’ve de-subbed.

The reasons are pretty simple:

the leveling was boring and very time-consuming. Fundamentally Aion felt like work to play based on its design the main PVP zone, the Abyss, was largely empty. This was nothing like WAR, WoW, or LOTRO, where it was easy to find opponents ..read the full article

Even though I purchased the six month package for Champions Online I haven’t actively played the game in weeks.  I’ve kept the client up-to-date just in case, but since publishing the game’s review in mid-November I haven’t put in anywhere near the time that I had previously.  My absence from VioletPreston has nothing to do with being busy.  The holidays didn’t stop me from logging in, neither did other video games, or even other MMOG that I play.  I didn’t ..read the full article

Love is in The Air - Apothecary TrioThe Love is in the Air world event just started and tons of stuff have been added to the event this year! The most interesting change is the addition of 3 bosses in Shadowfang Keep, for a headless-horseman like daily quest.

All you have to do to fight them is go to Shadowfang Keep in the Silverpine Forest.

Loot Table

ilvl Type Spec Slot Item 226 Misc. Spell MP5 Neck Winking Eye of Love 226 Misc. Spell Neck Heartbreak Charm 226 Misc. Tank Neck Shard of Pirouetting Happiness 226 Misc. Phys.DPS Neck Sweet Perfume Broach 226 Misc. Melee.DPS Neck Choker of the Pure ..read the full article

Okay, so my moonkin is having a terrible time trying to gear up in ICC. I’m having a hard time finding things like belts & bracers out of the 25-man instance that would be worthwhile, and I had to pick up a crit/spirit dagger off Morrow (paired with an off-hand I had from the ICC 5-mans). All the upgrades I really want are either in the 10-man or from badges.

All my gearing frustration, however, just makes me want Cataclysm to ..read the full article