Blizzard to allow appearance changes of WoW equipment

Blizzard announced Wednesday that they were going to add a new feature called transmogrification which basically alters the appears of armor or weapons on your character.  For years many players had complained that if they were finding the best itemized pieces for their characters they would normally have to break up sets of gear that were designed to [...]

Star Trek Online a month later

My son and I have been playing Star Trek Online now for about a month. We started out in beta and went ahead and purchased the game to continue trying things out.     Some folks have already maxed out their characters and then complained that there was nothing for them to do but that [...]

Star Trek Online Beta review

I got the opprotunity to participate in Star Trek Online’s Open beta and I figured I would share my experiences with it.   First off Star Trek Online is a new MMO that will be officially released on Feb 2 however folks who pre-ordered may start playing on Jan 29th. They just closed their open [...]

Playing MMO’s with my son

As I wrote in the previous article I mentioned how gaming had evolved over time. One of the major changes to gaming was the birth of Massive Mult-player Online games also known as MMO’s. The first few MMO’s I was introduced too were very casual based gaming such as I could spend as little as [...]

Onlines gaming then and now.

Growing up I was heavily into video games but it seems the newer generations are far heavier gamers than my generation was. Sure my generation would play many hours but it wouldn’t necessarily become a lifestyle like gaming has evolved into today. There are many different levels of gamers from the casual player to the [...]