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.

Joined: December 1, 2011
Articles: 757
Comments: 61

ByJim Franklin
OnJuly 11, 2011

Sim Brother Experiment Day 3: Hating Friends and Irritating People

The clock ticked over to 00:01 and four members of the household were still up. Obsidian was lost in his painting, Lucifer was engrossed with something on the computer, and Diane and Eddie were still playing the arcade games in…

ByJim Franklin
OnJuly 9, 2011
2 Comments

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.…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 30, 2011

Sim Brother Experiment Day 2: The Skinny Dipping Angel

Margaret and Chase were the first to wake. The high quality of the beds meant that they’d had enough sleep by 4am. Margaret walked over to the computers, logged on and started chatting to someone; probably an insomniac at that…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 28, 2011

‘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…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 27, 2011

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…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 27, 2011

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…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 23, 2011

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…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 16, 2011
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Sims 3 Review: It’s a Control Freak Thing

Created by EA Games, Sims 3 is arguably the biggest and best life simulation game available these days. In fact I’m struggling to even think of another one. The newest add-on pack ‘Generations’ provides more life events for your Sims…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 9, 2011

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…

ByJim Franklin
OnJune 7, 2011
6 Comments

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…