Nothing spreads faster than a false, toxic rumor. Bioware’s Star Wars The Old Republic suffered this truth after releasing their first major patch (1.1) on the 18th of January only to have PvP exploiters ruin the party for everyone. In a matter of minutes after the patch was released, the official forums exploded with threads of people calling it the new NGE, saying that they quit and posting a blatant lie that the turrets... 

With an argument for the sexy, we should be able to agree with the title of this article being that female armor in fantasy has always been midriff and boobs over protection. Still even with the amount of skin shown on women in fantasy games, movies and comic books, we have women such as the beloved Red Sonja (pictured above) fighting several men while receiving minimum damage and maximum protection. Well maybe Sonja is a bad... 

Well if you happened to check out Spike TV’s Videogame Awards this year, you could definitely say that it was a huge moment for video games. Overall there were so many great nominees to choose from. This is due to the fact that 2011 was the year for huge releases. Although many were nominated, only the crème de la crème were chosen in their respective categories. Let’s take a look at some of this year’s winners. Game of... 

Every Friday at the job a few of us guys get together in the computer lab and break out the old Age of Empires II: Conquerors to throw down for a few hours. It’s amazing how timeless this and other real time strategy are based on the Chess aspect of the game. We find that the tide of victory changes as we go along being that players develop patterns and other players pick up on this and exploit their weaknesses. The tower... 

I strongly disliked The World of Warcraft back when it launched, not because of the story, not because of the gameplay and not because of the company – seriously, I love Blizzard, being a huge Diablo / Diablo II player with a serious jonesing for 3 when it finally releases. What turned me away after burning away 40 levels with fellow MMOer Shinzo was the art and the easy mode feeling it had. Now so many years later after the game... 

As a rule the internet seems to universally hate hipsters. Yet that same internet complains about things that cater to the mainstream, reminisces on things in the past that only a few would know about and gives praise to things titled “indy” or “underappreciated”. This internet that I am alluding to is the same world that has dominated the vocal areas of our gaming family. Go to any opinion piece on a game... 

If developers haven’t realized the importance of the internet hype machine by now then then they may as well throw in the towel. I picked up Skyrim on Steam yesterday, not because of the excellent ads and that one badass live-action commercial where the dude faces a screaming dragon like a bawse! No I picked it up because literally everywhere I looked I was being bombarded with Skyrim screenshots, positive feedback and just, ugh! It... 

This weekend Bioware invited a number of us players to download The Old Republic client and stress their servers while giving them feedback. I had an absolute blast trying it out and although I have the pre-order, I must say that if I were on the ropes about the game I would have easily fallen in, because now i’m it’s biggest cheerleader. Choosing the Imperial Agent class I first noticed that my being used to melee was... 

Dear fighting game developers, I would like to thank you first and foremost for continuing to provide gens for a tiny genre in the grand landscape of gaming. Although I play fighting games extensively and periodically check out the guys grinding them out at a higher level, I would like to ask for one more thing that would help us home players greatly. We need in-game profiles with unique Joypad configurations. Here is why: The problem... 

I wanted no part of this Origin bull and many of you who read my editorials know how strongly I felt against the creation of the platform. I took issue with Origin not for some fools loyalty towards Valve’s Steam but because of the reasoning behind Origin’s creation. Steam was built to streamline the process of grabbing games virtually versus physically and most PC gamers happily accepted the platform as the solution. EA Origin...