Jim Franklin

Jim Franklin

Jim Franklin is a freelance writer, living in Derby UK with his wife and his player 3. When time allows he likes nothing more than losing himself in a multi-hour gaming session. He likes most games and will play anything but prefers MMO's, and sandbox RPG's.
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Age of Conan: Unchained. Now free-to-play

Funcom, apparently not wanting to be left behind, have decide to make Age of Conan free-to-play under the name ‘Age of Conan: Unchanged’. They’ve tried free timed trials of a week; then they tried a ‘capped at level 20’ method.…

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‘Prototype’ xBox 360 Game Review

Following on from the huge enjoyment I experienced from playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, I delved once again through the xBox 360 Platinum Hits shelf at my local video game score. With yet more sage advice from a mate, I picked…

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Sim Brother Experiment Day 1: It Begins

The first day of the Sim Brother Experiment. ***** Almost across the board, the first thing the house-guests did was to start gaping and gasping at the objects of the house. From the windows down to the big-screen television, the…

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Sims 3 Sim-Brother Experiment

Akin to the popular reality TV program, Big Brother, I’m setting up a little Sims 3 experiment. I’ve created eight stereotypical Sims, I’ve turned up the AI and now I’m going to throw them in to a large house together…

Have a few ‘Words with Friends’

Work has been slowing down recently, and there’s one of two things I could have done about it. I could have diligently, and pro-actively sought out new tasks at work, maybe even sorted out all those things that have needed…

DLC? I want the full video game”¦?

Well, the answer is usually a lot further back than you might think. Nearly all games these days are released with the assumption that they will be further embellished by add-on packs, downloadable content or DLC, and all the other…

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Runes of Magic: MMO Review

Over the past few days, I’ve downloaded Frogster Interactive’s Rune of Magic and have found time to spend a few hours finding out exactly what makes this one of the best Free-to-Play MMO’s out these days. I’ve played till level…