Recently, I’ve given into my internal closet nerd and picked up a copy of Cryptic Studios new game, Star Trek Online (STO). Having always been a Star Wars fan, I’ve partaken in more than my fair share of name-calling and joking at the expense of the nefarious Trekkie. In a fair fight, I’m confident any Star Wars fan could pummel a Trekkie into the ground.

Burnout like other disgusting bodily functions that will remain nameless here, happens!

In this episode of Apocalypso, Medory and Slacker Dan discuss the recent holidays events and gifts, as well as the new patches hitting the servers. Also, random insights into the game... very random.

You can listen by clicking http://bit.ly/7QhIRn OR by searching the itunes store for "Guildnetwork".

These alien humanoid life forms are almost always present in any given gaming voice system:

In the MMO world there is a seemingly never ending clash between the power gamers and the casual gamers.

We had worked our whole lives to build the dream that my husband and I had set before us when we married, that house on the river was like a carrot dangling before our very noses and for almost 20 yea

The advent of Print on Demand sites, ones like

Goodbye to 2009!

This was not a gamers year unless you classify console-gaming as a hardcore gaming experience, I for one do not.

Free to Play?

It seems to be a rapidly developing trend for any game that has an internet connection to find a way to get additional money from it's player base in exchange for game enhancements of various forms. There are velvet ropes, micro transactions, expansion packs and, of course, completely new incarnations of old favorites. Many of these things can be very good for your average gamer, but some can get rather cumbersome if you're not tracking how purchases are adding up.

In Episode Three Slacker Dan and Medory discuss PvP, DJ's on Apoc Radio, websites, and all the fun in the social patch.

You can listen by clicking http://bit.ly/6zFFw3 OR by searching the itunes store for "Guildnetwork".