The 5th anniversary of Age of Conan is on-going right now – which includes the new feature of major monster attacks in various places in Hyboria. It is pretty fun and is increasing in activity and intensity each day. The whole event is ongoing for 5 days, started on Thursday the 23rd. During the first day one […]

Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary for Age of Conan, on May 23rd. It is a game that certainly has seen some ups and downs. The launch was far from perfect, there were various issues and some game systems may not have worked out as well as the developers may have hoped. But it was and […]

Tonight Zelmira, my Herald of Xotli, got her final ding and reached level 80 in Age of Conan. This was while starting to do a few of the first missions in Khitai. It is really nice to have reached this point and I am still continuing to gain appreciation for the game – I am […]

A bit over a week ago City of Steam, a steampunk-inspired, browser-based dungeon crawler/MMO-type game went into open beta. So it is kind of launched, but not quite. I November/December of 2012 the game had 4 closed beta weekends, which I played a bit in. So now it has been time to see what the state […]

Today was the day of the April Game Director’s letter for three of the MMOs I subscribe to/pay for – Anarchy Online, Age of Conan and The Secret World. The reason for that is of course that the Game Directory is the very same person for all three of these games, Joel Bylos. I like [...]

Recently I visited two of soloable “dungeons” reachable from Gateway to Khitai – The Breach and The Forgotten City.  I put the world dungeons in quotes, because I would prefer to call them instanced areas – but the game terminology is dungeon. These “dungeons” scale to your level and according to the map they are [...]

Many of the MMOs that used to be subscription-based games, but at some point switched to a hybrid och free-to-play model have added various pieces to their names to indicate that they are really free, such as “Freedom”, “Free for all”, “Free forever”, “Unchained” etc. In an era where most MMOs were subscription-based, this perhaps [...]

Quite recently I completed two Destiny quests with Zelmira, my Herald of Xotli. After the first post-Tortage destiny quest at level 30 there is a gap until level 50 for the next one. As Zelmira did the level 30 quest almost a year ago during my previous venture into Age of Conan, I had almost [...]

I quite enjoy reading the mission texts in Age of Conan. They are a mix of serious and brutal stories, with some whimsical and kind of awkward moments (for the mission NPC mostly). Many times you can also choose your responses, to reflect a bit of your character’s character. It probably does not matter at [...]

Recently Zelmira, my Herald of Xotli, continued her travels into the Eiglophian Mountains. As with most of Cimmeria so far, it is a quite scenic area – tall mountains, forest areas, roaring wildlife – and of course some evildoers and general trouble. In the Eiglophian Mountains the local Cimmerians seem to hunt elk and bear [...]

About two weeks ago I wrote that I had started to play Age of Conan as a side MMO, to complement my gaming in The Secret World. Well, it turned out that I actually spent the majority of my game time in Age of Conan instead. The Secret World got its fair share, but definitely [...]

In the past few weeks I have been thinking about about complementing my time in The Secret World with another MMO on the side, to add a bit more variation – as an altoholic variation is my bread and butter. I have looked at a couple of different MMOs, even instealled and tried some – [...]

Started up Age of Conan after being away from it for 7-8 months, patched up the game and clicked the Accept and Start dialog options – and ended up with this display below (actual size). I could see some of the splash stuff that shows up at start in the window, like the Nvidia logo. [...]

Funcom has announced that the next content update, Issue #6 – Last Train to Cairo is due in the beginning of March.  The preview announcements includes a poster, some screenshots and a bit of teaser information what will be included in the update.  Given what the previous issue provided with the Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn, [...]

This weekend I started leveling in a new game – German. It is through the service DuoLingo, which is a free online language teaching service, combined with a crowdsourced translation of text. It was created by Luis von Ahn, creator of reCAPTCHA, and a couple of other people. While one important part of the service [...]

The Kickstarter project for the adventure game Dreamfall Chapters seems to be doing quite well – after about 1 1/2 week they have reached their funding goal and also reached their first stretch goal – Mac and Linux versions of the game. I am quite happy to see this, personally my main reason to use [...]

If you have played the adventure games The Longest Journey and/or Dreamfall, chances are that you may be interested in the Kickstarter campaign for Dreamfall Chapters - the concluding adventure in The Longest Journey saga. Ragnar Tørnquist, the creator of these adventure games and the mind behind behind the story and setting of Anarchy Online [...]

This is another build post for The Secret World; this was something that was originally intended to be written shortly after my previous build-related post. But I guess better late than never… In this case it is about some experiences I have had on my Templat alt, Zenara. She was created pretty much at the [...]

The adventures continues in The Secret World, as well as in Real Life – have not left much time for actual blogging lately, so I am trying to squeeze in a bit here with various bits and pieces. This is reflected in the title of the post… To Transylvania with love In the past 3 [...]

This post is about some of my experiences with the Chaos/Fist weapon combination in The Secret World. This is the first post about my build experiences; I start with Chaos/Fist since this is the weapon combination I have used most of the time when playing the game. Later posts will go into other experiments with [...]

In roughly the past week I have been spending my time in The City of the Sun God, the second Egyptian zone in The Secret World. For me, this was a noticeably different experience from the other zones. The reason for this was primarily the NPCs that I met in this zone.   Contrary to [...]

My cabal (or rather the group of cabals, one for each faction) that I am member of runs a weekly Dungeon Day. This used to be a time slot once per week (now twice per week) that is geared towards supporting each other to run through dungeons, be it normal, elite or nightmare mode. Dungeon [...]

A recent post on Massively caught my attention this morning; it was about another article on mmorpg.com with some information about the NCSoft & Paragon Studios debacle. The source of the information is supposedly anonymous former employees of NCSoft and Paragon Studios. The bullet point information presented in the article, from this source, is the [...]

I have played through most of the missions in the Scorched Desert zone in The Secret World now; in this zone there are three different investigation missions: The Big Terrible Picture Angels & Demons Unburnt Bush I am not going to go into details about the puzzles in these missions; I do not want to [...]

Another year has passed and it is time to look back a bit on my MMO gaming in 2012. City of Heroes For most of the year, City of Heroes was my base game, the one I always fallen back to after excursions to other MMOs. Except for the months July and August when I had a [...]