Exteel

How LEGO Universe Can Match the Success of Free Realms - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:14:21 -0400

SOE's Casual MMO Has a Head Start on LEGO Universe

With Free Realms taking over his household, Danny "Ralsu" Gourley had almost forgotten that NetDevil is hard at work on a LEGO MMO titled LEGO Universe. The building block dynamic has mass...

Pioneer Spirit - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:30:47 -0400

Mabinogi’s Expansion Offers Adventure and Exploration

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley continues to hunt for quality free MMOs, but sometimes he has a hard time stopping playing his favorites long enough to try something new. This week, he examines the...

What is a Free MMOG? - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:30:23 -0400

Does Free Apply to Any Game?

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley has been taking a lot of heat over his choices for the best free-to-play games. He thought it'd be easy to explain his selection criteria until he sat down to do it....

Is Bigger Really Better in MMOGs? - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:17:05 -0500

Ghost Towns, Variety, and Size All Matter

A diminished economy means that companies have look for ways to decrease production costs. For MMOG fans, that spells smaller worlds at launch with less variety. Drawing from his experience...

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Battle for the Children - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:54:56 -0500

Future MMOG Players Need to Start Somewhere

With World of Warcraft dominating the MMOG market, a number of games try to appeal to children to raise the next generation of players with notion that there is more to life than WoW. This...

NCsoft West Reorganization Continues in European Offices - Ten Ton Hammer

Cody Bye — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:23:08 -0500

Impacting 70 to 90 jobs, but immediate cuts aren't occurring to majority of European staff.

A variety of news has been spreading across the Internet this morning regarding NCsoft West and their continuing drive towards reorganizing their staff in the North American and European...

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games: Clicks for Kicks - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:30:03 -0500

Is Twitchy Combat the Future of F2P?

Sometimes F2P guru Danny "Ralsu" Gourley worries that future gamers will find his corpse buried in a tar pit, a fossil of an old-school gamer who seeks to use his wit rather than his reflexes in...

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Car Shopping - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:36:31 -0500

Don't Be Put off by the Cute Factor in F2P Games

Any connoisseur of free-to-play games would have to admit that there is a certain cute factor that goes with the territory. Even though a few

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games Archives - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:14:06 -0500

Cartoon Network's FusionFall Employs a Family-friendly Revenue Model

With World of Warcraft dominating the MMOG market, Danny "Ralsu" Gourley believes other

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Investment Opportunities for Developers - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:33:04 -0500

After digging for what really motivates gamers to invest in free-to-play games last week,

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Investment Opportunities for Players - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:36:22 -0500

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley thinks the trick to hooking players in a game is getting them to invest in it. Those who pay to play games invest money

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - The Time is Now - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:43:29 -0500

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley sifts through several free-to-play games each month to identify the best of the best for Ten Ton Hammer readers. F2P

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Raiders of the Lost Art - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:52:23 -0500

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley doesn't dislike raiding. He's killed a few dragons in his day. What bothers Ralsu is the way raiding can take

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Zerging the Market - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:22:12 -0500

In a week that saw Sony Online Entertainment bring microtransactions to EverQuest and EverQuest II

Top Ten Free to Play Games - Distributive Properties - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:46:03 -0500

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley loves to find good games at a great price. That's why he tells Ten Ton Hammer readers about the best free-to-play games

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Dancing With Demons - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:53:49 -0500

When Danny "Ralsu" Gourley heard the Shin Megami Tensei series, or Megaten, was getting a F2P MMOG, he knew he'd have to investigate

Top Ten Free-to-Play Games - Selling Lemons or Selling Hats - Ten Ton Hammer

Ralsu — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:14:27 -0500

Not Every Game is Run by Slimeballs

NCSoft's Exteel Reviewed - Ten Ton Hammer

Dalmarus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:33:44 -0500

Free Mech Combat At Its Finest

Exteel - New Trailer - Ten Ton Hammer

Cody Bye — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:33:41 -0400

In our modern era, giant robots are a thing of splendor. People love anything that stands over two stories high, has articulating limbs, a