Nublet, newb, newbie, nub, n00b, seedy underbelly growth, all of these apply to you. Because, you see, you want to start playing an MMO. Don’t deny it…mightier men than you have tried and failed, but EVENTUALLY everyone dips their toes in the water and your old buddy Jason is here to tell you what to [...]
Ever since our primitive ancestors first walked the earth, man has gathered in groups. They shared the light and warmth of fire. They shared food. They picked lice off each other. They shared stories. A few days ago, fellow Geekcentricity writer Jason shared his view of MMO’s and online gaming as being the next logical [...]
Friendship is Rare Once Again… I believe MMOs are the natural progression of social gaming. Much like snail mail, Scrabble, or even phone books, social gaming is something that is quickly losing its need for a physical medium. It’s happening everywhere! Many of my gamer friends remember all-night frag-fests with your friends playing split-screen Goldeneye [...]
“Jack of all Trades, master of none. “ That phrase could be applied to me when it comes to the realm of nerdity. I have a notoriously short attention span. Seriously, I have the capacity of a squirrel…if that squirrel was a crack-head with undiagnosed ADD and a bag full of pixie sticks…a pixiecrack squirrel, [...]
This week, fans of online first-person shooter (FPS) video games rejoiced with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops. In the first 24 hours after launch, more than 5.6 million people brought the game home on disc and fired up their XBox 360′s, Playstation 3′s, and even their Nintendo Wii’s to get a piece [...]
Here’s my disclaimer: I haven’t yet had the time to finish the campaign mode like my fellow Geekcentricity writer Darren. You can read his thoughts about the game here. But I’ve gotten a good grip on the mechanics of the game as well as the engrossing story line. If you haven’t read his post yet [...]
I am a firm believer that Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (henceforth referred to as MMOs) are the natural progression of social gaming. Please don’t get me wrong…. a bunch of buddies around a table with snacks and dice is still a wonderful experience, but in a world where interactions are going increasingly digital, it [...]
X-Con World 2010 This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending X-Con World 2010 in Myrtle Beach, SC. It is a small blended con, with interests including comics, anime, horror, sci-fi, gaming, etc. Back in March, when I started this site, my idea was to have a Geekcentricity table with T-shirts and other goodies. [...]
Everybody loves a good story, right? Stories are part of the human existence. Imagine for a moment, the first storytellers. We don’t know exactly who they were, but I’m guessing that among the earliest was some semi-upright guy, or girl, standing in front of a fire, in a cave, with all of the young people [...]
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the influence it has had on the video game industry for the past nine years. I’m talking, of course, about Halo. Bungie released the first Halo game, Halo: Combat Evolved, in November, 2001. Since then, there have been four more games in the franchise (including an RTS, [...]
