Why is DRM a good thing you may ask yourself? The answer is simple: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/pc-gears-of-war-drm-causes-title-to-shut-down-starting-today.ars More such implementations will surely manage to piss of enough consumers that they go over to a totally DRM'ed solution/lockdown system such as the XBOX 360 Console (Which lets you install games to hard drive, but NOT play without the game cd) and the Playstation 3 (If it ever got any content... ). The trick is...

Dear Games Developer & Publisher using Tages Activation die!   Happy new year.      

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures A meview of the game. This game had everything going for it. A well known backstory, a "year" for itself (LOTRO came out in 2007 and WAR is delayed), a lot of guilds waiting for it who have grown tired of WoW/LOTRO/EQ2, a release many months ahead of Wrath of the Liche King and most importantly Arnold being the barbarian (and probably a ganker in order to protect tinseltown against movie pirates). So how did it  fail to capture so many (that ...

So I am doing it again. " What ?" I pretend I hear you ask. I am reinstalling my operating system(s) to get a clean installation once again. " But wouldn't a clean OS installation require you to reinstall all your usefull applications and exciting entertainment products ?" you ask in followup. The answer to that question is -- True. Unfortunately it is often required in the state of computing to reinstall the operating system you have been using. There are many reasons for this be...

While driving to work today I was thinking about Starforce and how it is being applied by Publishers and Developers to software titles many gamers are interested in purchasing, and how gamers attempt to combat it. But is it Starforce we should blame, or is it the industry as a whole, spesifically targeting the Software Publishers & Developers who decide to utilize it. There is no doubt to anyone that Starforce is a very strong restriction technology that can be applied to software, b...

It should come as no surprise to anyone who have in the past read my "blog" or to anyone I have talked with on other forums that I have a ... issue.. with regards to games requiring cd-in-drive, games that install hidden drivers on my operating system(s) or offline games that require internet authentication/validation and contain time-consuming validation processes to install/extract the game [not to mention being difficult to operate in a no-internet-lan environment]. (To cover all bases, th...

I remember [Well, actually I dont, but I will pretend I remember and describe something..] many years ago, when I woke up one Saturday morning. The sun was shining through a small opening in the curtains and the birds were happily sending their 'THIS IS MY TERRITORY!' or 'HEY GIRLS!' signal to the surroundings. I stood up, and I was happy. Happy because today I was going to take the bus into the city and purchase a new video game for my computer [AMiGA at the time] from the local game...

So I made it up to level 22 as a Human Paladin in World of Warcraft before they ended the beta (And europeans were persona non grata from the NA servers - but thats another subject) and what were the results? So how do I rate the game, compared to all the other MMORPGS I've played. [ Asherons Call, Asherons Call 2, Anarchy Online, Lineage, Lineage 2, Ultima Online, Everquest, Meridian 59, Some Sierra Game I forgot the name of, Dark Ages of Camelot, Shadowbane, Neocron] The result? I...