mmo

Given how quick it actually is to hop on the Eurostar and head on over.

From the 21st to 23rd September is the Festival du Jeu Vidéo in Paris. The guys from NCSoft will have a booth there, showing off both Guild Wars and Tabula Rasa.

On Friday 21st they'll also be giving a presentation and Q&A in the MMO village, about the upcoming new fantasy MMO from NCSoft - Aion.

Saturday 22nd will feature the final of the Guild Wars French Championship, with a showdown between Be Team [be] and The Last Requiem [RiP].

Just digging through my latest credit card statement, and I've just realised that I've been playing EVE for 4 years now.

I saw a copy on a shelf in Game shortly after release. I hadn't heard of it, and on the front cover it loudly proclaimed a quote from a review: "It's like a multiplayer version of Elite"

That was enough for me, and at £19.99 it was worth a punt. Got home, started reading the manual while installing the game, and was hooked. The universe was so vast, so complex, there was so much to do. I just got dragged in.