Jon Wood

MMORPG.com's Jaime Skelton uses her blog this week to urge both the media and the gaming industry to slow down in their acceptnce of the encroachment of the F2P business model into the Western world.

All Points Bulletin Lead Gameplay Designer Jesse Knapp writes this new APB dev journal explaining the game's two factions and asks the question: Which side are you on?

Our series of class previews continues with a first look at Rift: Planes of Telara's warrior class: the Champion.

MMORPG.com's Angie Webb recently had some hands-on time with Realtime Worlds' APB. One of her assignments was to write an article based on her own unique perspective as a female gamer.

The folks at En Masse Entertainment have been kind enough to provide us with this "day in the life" screenshot feature that tells the story of Daarran, a veteran of the Argon Front who is tasked with integrating lancers into special units across the Federation.

The folks at NetDevil spoke with our own Bill Murphy about the kinds of changes that have been made to the game since they went dark. The details will be revealed at next week's E3.

Our series of class previews continues with a first look at Rift: Planes of Telara's magical Warlock class.

One of MMORPG.com's most prolific bloggers, Teala, spent some time putting together an entry that talks about one of the factos that she feels that EVE Online lacks - The Human factor.

The team at Star Vault has announced that they have now officially launched their new sandbox MMORPG, Mortal Online.

In the news slow week before E3, MMORPG.com Star Wars: The Old Republic columnist Eric Barnett sets his mind to wandering about what might happen if Bioware were to take two routes that seem to be popular among developers recently: moving to a Free 2 Play model and ignoring the IP's niche in favor of a larger audience.

With the recent announcement that Turbine will be making its flagship MMO, Lord of the Rings Online into a F2P game, MMORPG.com list-smith Bill Murphy rattles off five reasons that players should be excited about the announcement. Next week, he gives five reasons that players should be cautious.

MMORPG.com's Justin Webb, a developer who has worked for both F2P and P2P studios, uses his column inches this week to talk about why F2P exists and how it operates as a system.

The folks at Trion have decided to reveal the classes for the upcoming MMORPG Rift: Planes of Telara. Today, we start with The Ranger.

Matthew Higby, the Lead Designer on the recently announced SOE Clone Wars Adventure Project, sits down to answer a few introductory questions from our own Garrett Fuller.

A long-time observer of the F2P sector, columnist Richard Aihoshi comments on the news that LOTRO will change its business model.