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  • Thought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon.  The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a...1February 8, 2012

    What’s Coming up

    Thought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon.  The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a…

  • Wargaming.net’s upcoming World of Warplanes (WoWP), an aerial version of their current mega-hit, World of Tanks is set to come out this year. Here is the latest trailer, showing off the German planes in the game: The trailer includes the FW-56 Goshawk trainer, the famous BF-109G Messerschmidt fighter, the FW-57 fighter-bomber and the never-built butterfly-tail ME262 HG III jet fighter....0January 22, 2012

    World of Warplanes status update

    Wargaming.net’s upcoming World of Warplanes (WoWP), an aerial version of their current mega-hit, World of Tanks is set to come out this year. Here is the latest trailer, showing off the German planes in the game: The trailer includes the FW-56 Goshawk trainer, the famous BF-109G Messerschmidt fighter, the FW-57 fighter-bomber and the never-built butterfly-tail ME262 HG III jet fighter….

  • In this exclusive article, SeanPwnery, a Wargaming.net “Supertester”, looks at World of Tanks’ French Tech Tree. SeanPwnery started playing back in August with a goal of getting the German Maus as his Tier X tank. After getting the Maus, he started exploring all of the other tech trees in WoT. Of course, once the French branches became available, he dove into...2January 22, 2012

    WoT: The French Tech Tree

    In this exclusive article, SeanPwnery, a Wargaming.net “Supertester”, looks at World of Tanks’ French Tech Tree. SeanPwnery started playing back in August with a goal of getting the German Maus as his Tier X tank. After getting the Maus, he started exploring all of the other tech trees in WoT. Of course, once the French branches became available, he dove into…

  • As you guys know, recently I have been totally consumed by Wargaming.net‘s great freemium game, World of Tanks (WoT). This highly-addictive F2P, armor-on-armor contest continuously impresses me by its high level of quality. As well, after years of being disappointed by the workmanlike products coming from many AAA-studios, the near-fanboy-like attention to detail coming from WoT’s dev team is invigorating....4January 17, 2012

    WoT Dev: Sergey Burkatovskiy

    As you guys know, recently I have been totally consumed by Wargaming.net‘s great freemium game, World of Tanks (WoT). This highly-addictive F2P, armor-on-armor contest continuously impresses me by its high level of quality. As well, after years of being disappointed by the workmanlike products coming from many AAA-studios, the near-fanboy-like attention to detail coming from WoT’s dev team is invigorating….

  • I have to be quite honest here, I really had no intention of playing Hi-Rez Studio’s F2P sci-fi shooter, Tribes: Ascend (currently in Beta).  The reason I didn’t want to play it was not because I’ve been feeling FPS-F2P overload recently. Sure, I’d been in too many ill-conceived FPS Betas the last few weeks…but that wasn’t it.  Nor was it because...1January 15, 2012

    Tribes: Ascend in Beta

    I have to be quite honest here, I really had no intention of playing Hi-Rez Studio’s F2P sci-fi shooter, Tribes: Ascend (currently in Beta).  The reason I didn’t want to play it was not because I’ve been feeling FPS-F2P overload recently. Sure, I’d been in too many ill-conceived FPS Betas the last few weeks…but that wasn’t it.  Nor was it because…

  • Yesterday, Aeria Games & Entertainment Inc. (AGE), an online games publisher that is based in Santa Clara, California, announced that it is taking over ijji Games. ijji, as you may know, is a subsidiary of NHN. USA, a Korean company, operating in the U.S. that provides a free multiplayer portal. One of the more popular games that ijji offers on...0January 6, 2012

    Aeria Games acquires ijji

    Yesterday, Aeria Games & Entertainment Inc. (AGE), an online games publisher that is based in Santa Clara, California, announced that it is taking over ijji Games. ijji, as you may know, is a subsidiary of NHN. USA, a Korean company, operating in the U.S. that provides a free multiplayer portal. One of the more popular games that ijji offers on…

  • Tell General DeGaulle that the French tanks have arrived! What initially was scheduled to be added to World of Tanks Update 7.0, the French tank update proved too difficult and for that reason was siphoned off into a post New Year content release. The introduction of French equipment means that yet another country has been added to WoT. France’s armor...2January 4, 2012

    WoT 7.1 Update

    Tell General DeGaulle that the French tanks have arrived! What initially was scheduled to be added to World of Tanks Update 7.0, the French tank update proved too difficult and for that reason was siphoned off into a post New Year content release. The introduction of French equipment means that yet another country has been added to WoT. France’s armor…

  • In my early gaming life, back in the late 80′s and early 90′s, the most iconic game you could load up on your computer — in fact, the original killer app — was Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFSim).  Originally released for the Apple II as FS1 Flight Simulator,  “Flight Sim” as it became known, pre-dated PC gaming and was the original...4January 4, 2012

    Microsoft Flight F2P

    In my early gaming life, back in the late 80′s and early 90′s, the most iconic game you could load up on your computer — in fact, the original killer app — was Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFSim).  Originally released for the Apple II as FS1 Flight Simulator,  “Flight Sim” as it became known, pre-dated PC gaming and was the original…

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  • It was a bittersweet Tweet, not unexpected — to say the least. It went something like this: BM verabschiedet sich – zumindest vorerst! BM says “Goodbye”! I quickly clicked over to the BlackMonkeys.de site and looked for the inevitable end-times post. The impenetrable German prose tripped me up. I’d forgotten…I don’t speak German, so I Skyped Xiao and asked him...

    BlackMonkeys on Hiatus

    Posted on February 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
    It was a bittersweet Tweet, not unexpected — to say the least. It went something like this: BM verabschiedet sich – zumindest vorerst! BM says “Goodbye”! I quickly clicked over to the BlackMonkeys.de site and looked for the inevitable end-times post. The impenetrable German prose tripped me up. I’d forgotten…I don’t speak German, so I Skyped Xiao and asked him...

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