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: 792

post: 664
reviews: 127

ByJim Franklin
OnMarch 20, 2013

Stinky Footboard Kickstarting soon

For gamers, having to deal with multiple simultaneous gaming controls is just something you learn to deal with. Using the WASD keys to move, mouse to look around, space to jump, TAB to open inventory, CTRL+G to go to the…

ByJim Franklin
OnFebruary 21, 2013

Arcane Legends Goes all Pirate

If you can accuse Spacetime Studios of anything it certainly isn’t sitting on their hands. Scarcely a month after their last Arcane Legends update which lobbed in a load of new PVP maps, modes and items, The guys and gals…

ByJim Franklin
OnFebruary 19, 2013

Heavy Gear Assault brings Mech PvP

If there’s anyone out there who doesn’t know what a mech is, think of a giant bipedal robot with large amounts of weaponry. Think ED-209 from Robocop, or at a pinch those human-operated robot things continuously firing at all the…

ByJim Franklin
OnFebruary 12, 2013

Indiecade East and Spacewar! go to New York

Indiecade, the International Festival of Independent Games is heading to the east coast for the first time, the east coast of America of course, not England for those few people inexplicably confused there. If you do happen to be lucky…

ByJim Franklin
OnJanuary 23, 2013

Skyrim Mods, my favourites

There could be many reasons why you like Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, the beautiful graphics the in-depth stories, the non-linear gameplay, the near infinite ways that you can create and evolve your character, the list is long. Don’t get…

ByJim Franklin
OnJanuary 20, 2013

Arcane Legends gets a PvP Update

The New Year has been well and truly ushered in and Spacetime Studios have started 2013 by introducing player vs. player (PvP) combat to their 4 million player strong, mobile MMO Arcane Legends. The first PvP mode to be introduced…

ByJim Franklin
OnDecember 28, 2012

ZombieChimp’s Best Game of 2012

With the end of 2012 in sight, what better time is there to look back over the year and decide on the game that beats all other games of 2012. Now when I say top games of 2012, they may…

ByJim Franklin
OnDecember 20, 2012

Arcane Legends Holiday Update Winter Wonderland Released

Spacetime Studios are throwing a load of completely free Christmas stuff in their latest Christmas themed patch for Arcane Legends called Winter Wonderland, and like the Halloween add-on a few months ago they have not skimped on the content. There’s…

ByJim Franklin
OnDecember 14, 2012

Pocket Legends Update with Two New Classes

If you are one of the eight million people who have downloaded Pocket Legends then you’ll be very interested to know about all the goodies Spacetime Studios have introduced in the latest update. Although if you are one of those…

ByJim Franklin
OnDecember 9, 2012

Crafting in Guild Wars 2

Crafting is the bit of each new MMO that I am screaming for somebody to get right. In most cases crafting boils down to little more than pointlessly grinding materials to make endless amounts of the same item that you…