It wasn't always easy to get to the action in the early days of MMORPGs, but teleporters and quick travel are standard features in most current games of this kind. Of course, getting around by loading screen can be rather immersion breaking. This week we look at some of the pros and cons of quick travel in MMORPGs.

If you follow video game news you've probably heard about Double Fine's incredibly successful effort to find funding for a new adventure game through crowdsourcing. Thanks to the Internet and sites such as Kickstarter, it's possible for large numbers of people to donate small amounts of money toward projects that they would like to see realized. Is this how the games of the future will be funded?

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be the second attempt to adapt the "Star Wars" universe into a graphical MMORPG. Bioware had a lot of success with Knights of the Old Republic, so people have naturally had high expectations for this new title. In many ways it's a conventional MMORPG, but it does have a few unique features, which we dicuss in our review.

The early Tribes games are fondly remembered for their high-speed action, and many have yearned for another addition to this series, which hasn't seen a new release since 2004's Tribes: Vengeance. Hi-Rez Studios, the makers of Global Agenda, is breathing new life into the franchise with Tribes: Ascend, a free-to-play game that is currently in closed beta. I`ve been getting schooled in jetpacking and skiing, so here are my first impressions of Tribes: Ascend.