Computer Games Articles

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 2:03 AM

If you've played an MMO at all, you know about "door missions". If you're in World of Warcraft or Everquest, a door mission is a dungeon, or a quest - you go to the door, you transition to a confined area, you kill the bad guys and come back out. EVE complexes are the door missions of this multi-player shared universe game. Door missions are one type of agent mission; using much the same methodology of a traditional MMO, there are NPC characters that will hire you to d... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Monday, 21st April 2008 @ 12:52 AM

Many World of Warcraft players eventually come to a point in their game play where they feel as if they are ready to create a guild. Creating a guild is not for everyone - it takes a lot of work, structure, organization, and patience in order to establish a productive guild. Here, you will discover some great strategies on how to develop a successful World of Warcraft guild. It is important for you to know and understand that this may take a little bit of time to accomplish. In addition to this,... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Hunter Crowell @ Friday, 18th April 2008 @ 8:44 PM

There is not much known about the Gnomes ancient history, though due to their close relationship to dwarves referring to each other as cousins as well as appearance, size, and global distribution, it is possible that they are a cultural offshoot of the dwarves, presumptively dividing off sometime before the war of three hammers. The first known point in their history is when they served in the second war aboard flying machines and submarines. After the second war, the gnomes taught the dw... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Alan Biron @ Friday, 18th April 2008 @ 11:07 AM

There are many popular games that you may favor but may not really know what genre of gaming they are categorized as. When you visit pubs, restaurants, entertainment hubs or the mall, do you always try your luck at one of those coin operated games? Well, if this is you, then you like arcade games. The great thing about these arcade games is that if you fare well, there's a prize for you. In most cases, you just play to collect points and the machine dispenses tickets in prop... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Nazima Golamaully @ Thursday, 17th April 2008 @ 4:45 AM

Do you have an Xbox? If so, which model? There is the original model and then more recently released was the 360 version. Whichever model you have, the Xbox is one of the more popular gaming consoles available today even though it was Microsoft's first attempt at entering the gaming console business when it was released in 2001. Its director competitors are the Sony Playstation and the Nintendo Gamecube. Why Create the Xbox? It might seem strange to ask why anyone wo... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Alan Biron @ Tuesday, 15th April 2008 @ 3:51 PM

Ragnarok Online or widely known as RO, is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) by Gravity Co., Ltd. The game is based on the comic book Ragnarok by a Korean autor, Lee Myung-Jin. The game was first released on 2002 in its home base, South Korea. The game is mainly based on a Norse mythology but the storyline has been modified and has a Christian and Asian culture influence. There is also an animated series created called Ragnarok the Animation. Some servers are pay-t... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Chris McCann @ Sunday, 13th April 2008 @ 12:58 PM

Savvy Internet users from all over the world are eager to download software for their Sony PSP in order to get free games. The problem is where do you find the software to do such a thing? There are dozens if not hundreds of websites out there that offer the service, but are they legit? There are a few top companies that have developed a unique software application that allow users to search for and download free games, screensavers, backgrounds, themes, browsers and other software for ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Chris McCann @ Sunday, 13th April 2008 @ 12:56 PM

To the average Joe, when you ask him or her what a Sony PSP (Sony Playstation Portable) is, they will tell you it a handheld video game console. The average person has no idea what all you can do with a Sony PSP. It's not just a fancy Gameboy! It does a whole lot more than just play video games. Let me explain. Gaming- video games The Sony PSP has over 350 game titles and more coming all the time. They are constantly adding titles all the time. You can get all the hottest titles of a... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Chris McCann @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 4:21 PM

You probably already know that the PSP is an incredible little device for gaming. It's slick looking, the perfect size, and very easy to use. In fact, the PSP was actually the first portable device for gaming with built in Internet capabilities. Sony came out with this new concept of being able to download demos of their latest games called PSP demo downloads. It was a way for Sony to get PSP users hooked on playing old games and at the same time allow Sony to advertise their new games.... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 2:43 AM

World of Warcraft is one of the most popular multiplayer online role playing games on the internet today. Currently, there are approximately ten million subscribers to this game. While these millions of individuals rave about the ever-popular never-ending game, there are many who have discovered World of Warcraft add-ons that dramatically enhance their game play. Unfortunately, there is a potential risk of using World of Warcraft add-ons in order to enhance your game play experience - that is th... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 2:23 AM

EVE is one of the hardest MMOs to cheat at, and attempting EVE Online cheats is a surefire way to get your account shut down and your characters nuked. There are two primary methods of doing EVE Online cheats. The first is buying ISK (the in game currency) offline and having it transferred to your account. However, CCP cracks down on this hard; they track the accounts of known ISK sellers (and look for "mining bot" operations that these people use to generate the currency that they se... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Thursday, 10th April 2008 @ 12:33 PM

Each and every single day, there is a new player added to the large subscriber list of World of Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment. It is quite possible that you are reading this because today you took your place among the ranks with the millions of other players in this widely popular massive multiplayer online role playing game. If you want to achieve success when playing this game, one of the best resources that you have is the World of Warcraft map. Here, you will learn how to use th... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Alan Biron @ Thursday, 10th April 2008 @ 6:45 AM

A century ago, the term 'games' would have referred to either field sports or games like Chess. With the advent of technology and more recently, the Internet, the term has taken a new meaning. Online gaming has gained massive popularity over the last few years. People no longer play games in the comfort of their homes but also in cyber cafes and, as techies will vouch for it, in offices! Online gaming offers a lot of flexibility to gamers - flexibility to decide where to play, w... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Alan Biron @ Thursday, 10th April 2008 @ 4:16 AM

A search in Google with the keywords 'online games' generates around 125 million results in less than a second, probably increasing by hundreds every hour. That should give you an idea of how popular online gaming is. Why online gaming is popular The flexibility and variety offered by online gaming are the two important factors making it so popular. It started with individuals' need to entertain and de-stress themselves at their own convenience, in the comfort of their h... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Wednesday, 9th April 2008 @ 10:26 PM

World of Warcraft is an extremely popular game that many individuals want to pursue, but are often thrown by the price that is associated with it. It normally takes approximately $20 to purchase the WoW software, and then another $14.99 a month to pay for a subscription to the game. Many people are really hesitant to do this because they are not even sure if they will enjoy the game. If you are interested in trying out World of Warcraft, but are not sure if you are game, I will tell you ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Wednesday, 9th April 2008 @ 9:51 PM

If you are new to World of Warcraft, or WoW, you have probably seen the updates and patches that occur within the game on occasion. The World of Warcraft patch is nothing more than a simple upgrade that occurs among all servers that host this game. Prior to the implementation of these patches, Blizzard Entertainment will release what is called Patch Notes. You may not realize it, especially if you are new to the game, but you can actually use a World of Warcraft patch to increase your go... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Wednesday, 9th April 2008 @ 9:49 PM

Eve Online is unique among most massively multiplayer games in that its character creation is tied towards selecting skills, and character advancement is based on the amount of real time the character has remained in play, not "how many things you've killed" as happens in World of Warcraft or City of Heroes. This makes your initial skill selection an important consideration for EVE Online character creation; the skills you take at the initial signup will determine which casca... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Tom Kranz @ Thursday, 3rd April 2008 @ 6:10 PM

Great news Apple fans. Your favorite Icelandic computer game company, CCP Games, released the Mac version of the Trinity client for EVE. The EVE Online Mac client has the same functionality as the Windows client, and provides a point and click interface to an online world set in space. Flying in the face of established methods of MMO scaling (splitting the player base across multiple different server instances) EVE has a single shared instance. When there are 30,000 players logged into the gam... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Chris McCann @ Monday, 31st March 2008 @ 12:58 PM

When I was youngster a couple decades ago all I wanted to do was play Nintendo. I couldn't get enough. I even got my first job as a janitor at my old elementary school as a teen-ager just be be able to afford to buy more Nintendo games. If I couldn't buy them, I would trade with neighborhood kids or I would rent them at stores. I honestly couldn't get enough. Now I have a Nintendo Wii and just love it. Last year I bought quite a few and rented tons more from the local Holly... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Computer Games | By Russell Hancock @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 10:07 PM

Arcades have come a long way since their inception as simple coin operated games long ago. The earliest coin operated games showed up in the 1930's as pinball machines. In the early 70's the world was mesmerized by the video game called pong. Then Atari came into the picture as the first major player in the industry. New arcade games were developed and seemingly overnight they appeared in restaurants, grocery stores, bars and movie theaters all over the United States an... more...