World of Warcraft Killer. It's become an actual term in the gaming industry.

It's the Shangri'la of gaming, a mythical paradise that all gamers and developers dream of but no-one knows if it actually exists, or even if it can.

Dethroning WoW has become the ultimate goal of game development - it's the ultimate title that can be bestowed unto any game - but maybe we should take a step back and have a look at this ideal with a more critical eye.

Now, everyone who has had WoW negatively affect their lives in some way, please raise your hand now...
1...2..8...312... Hmm, that's a lot.

Alright, now for all the non-gamers who've had their lives impacted by a friend/relative/partner who has a WoW addiction, please raise your hands...
...Oh my, it's about the same amount, if not more.

Don't start throwing your rocks yet guys, I know you get awfully defensive when it comes to your precious Azeroth, but hear me out.

Did you see all those hands? Yeah, that's one helluva lot of people who've been affected by just one game. I should know, I'm one of them (WoW claimed my soul during closed beta... I wasn't part of the beta, I was hooked just hearing about it). My concern is simply this: Do we

This is a response to Lean's article: How MMOs Can Be Used by Terrorists?. I was going to post this as a comment on the article, but I didn't have enough room, hehe.
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Yep, once again the American Military Intellence (an oxymoron if I ever saw one) has gone and made an incredibly stupid move. Turns out World of Warcraft can be used as a communication medium for terrorists! Who knew?!

Well, I did, for one, and I've known all along... how did I know, you wonder? Easy. It's because...

...wait for it...

...I'm not a total frikking idiot, is why.

OF COURSE terrorists can communicate through World of Warcraft... anyone can. You might find a child-porn ring being run through Mabinogi's servers or even an international drug and slave trading organisation that works through Second Life or an online prostitution racquet running through 3feel. Any form of communication can be used for these purposes.
The irresponsible part is that now they've managed to get people worried about this by releasing a blatantly freaking obvious statement that will achieve nothing but panic.

Allow me to app

My love for the handheld system has been reignited (and some of my faith in Square-Enix at the same time):
The World Ends With You...

Well, reignited is probably too strong of a term in my case. I never had much interest in handheld systems until now. I'd just assumed that they were used exclusively for Pokemon games and that everything else was just an afterthought. Heck, the whole reason I bought a DS in the first place was for Pokemon.

(By the way, you should probably know now before you hear it from someone else and get the wrong idea: I own a pink DS... it's a long story, don't ask)

TWEWY is a damn near perfect game. I've spent weeks playing it so far and have been really struggling to find a fault... but this isn't about TWEWY.

The handheld market seems to be growing stronger and stronger by the day. The DS and the PSP have all but revolutionised portable gaming forever. Such amazing games are being released on these systems now that portable gaming is becoming harder to ignore. These things are not out of the ordinary though, this is just the natural way any gaming system/platform evolves. No, it's the new possibilities that got me thinking.

Which new door