Will get on that...
Sometime...

In the meantime, enjoy "The Man Code". (disclaimer: not for those without humor)

1. If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off limits forever! Unless you actually marry her.

2. When questioned by a friend's girlfriend, you need not and should not provide any information as to his whereabouts. You are even permitted to deny his very existence.

3. Unless he murdered someone in your immediate family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 24 hours.

4. A best man's toast may not include any of the following phrases, "down in Tijuana", "one time when we were all piss drunk", or "and this girl had the biggest rack you ever saw".

5. You may exaggerate any anecdote told to your friends by 50% without recrimination, beyond that anyone within earshot is allowed to yell out "********!". (exception: when trying to pick up a girl, the allowable exaggeration is 400%)

6. Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella.

7. The minimum amount of time you have to wait for another man is 5 minutes. The maximum is 6 minutes. For a girl, you are required to wait 10 minutes for every point of hotness she scores on the classic 1-10 scale.

8. *****ing about the brand of free beverages in your buddy's refrigerator is forbidden. But gripe at will if the temperature is not suitable.

9. A friend must be permitted to borrow anything you own - grill, car, firstborn child - within 12 hr notice. Women or anything considered "lucky" are not applicable in this case.

10. Falling on a grenade for a buddy (agreeing to distract the skanky friend of the hot babe he's trying to score) is your legal duty. But should you get carried away with your good deed and end up getting on the beast, your pal is forbidden to ever speak of it.

11. Do not torpedo single friends.

12. On a road trip, the strongest bladder determines pit stops, not the weakest.

13. Before dating a buddy's ex you are required to ask his permission. If he grants it, he is however allowed to say, "man, your gonna love the way she licks your balls"

14. Women who claim they "love to watch sports" must be treated as spies until they demonstrate knowledge of the game and the ability to pick a Buffalo wing clean.

15. If a mans zipper is down, that�s his problem, you didn�t see anything!

16. No man shall ever be required to buy a birthday present for another man. (in fact, even remembering your best friends birthday is optional)

17. You must offer heartfelt condolences over the death of a girlfriends cat, even if it was you who secretly set it on fire and threw it into a ceiling fan.

18. While your girlfriend must bond with your buddies girlfriends with in 30 minutes of meeting them, you are not required to make nice with her gal pal's boyfriends- low level sports bonding is all the law requires.

19. Unless you have a lucrative endorsement contract, do not appear in public wearing more than one Nike swoosh.

20. When stumbling upon other guys watching a sporting event, you may always ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask who's playing.

21. If your girlfriend asks to set your friend up with her ugly, whiny, loser friend of hers, you must grant permission, but only if you have ample time to warn your friend to prepare his excuse about joining the priesthood.

22. Only in a situation of mortal danger or ass peril are you permitted to kick another member of the male species in the testicles.

23. Unless you're in prison, never fight naked. This includes men who aren't wearing shirts. If your buddy is outnumbered outmanned, or too drunk to defend himself, you must jump into the fight. Exception: if during the past 24 hours your friends actions have caused you to think "what this guy needs is a good ass wuppin", in which case you may refrain from getting involved and stand back and enjoy.

24. Friends don�t let friends wear speedos. Ever. Case closed.

25. Fives must be called at all times when getting out of your seat. If not, your seat is up for grabs. However, "house rules" may come into effect, in which case it is left up to the owner of the seat.

26. Shotgun can be called on anything where a shotgun applies., as long as you are in eyesight of the object, or it is at a reasonable time.

27. When picking players for sports teams it is permissible to skip over your buddy in favor of better athletes- as long as you don�t let him be the last sorry son of a ***** standing on the sideline.

28. If you ever compliment a guy's six pack, you better be talking about his choice of beverage.

29. Never join your girlfriend in ragging on a buddy of yours, unless she is withholding sex, pending your response.

30. Phrases that may never be uttered to another man while lifting weights:
"Yeah, baby, push it!"
"Come on, give me one more, harder!"
"Another set and we can hit the showers"
"Nice ass! Are you a Sagittarius?"

31. Never hesitate to reach for the last beverage or pizza, but not both. That�s just mean.

32. Never talk to another man in the bathroom unless you are on equal footing: both urinating, both waiting in line for all other situations an "I recognize you" nod will do just fine.

33. Never allow a telephone conversation with a woman to go on longer than you are able to have sex with her. Keep a stopwatch nearby, hang up if necessary.

34. You can not rat out a friend who show's up to work or class with a massive hangover, however you may: hide the aspirin, smear his chair with limburger cheese, turn the brightness on his computer way up so he thinks its broken, or have him paged every seven minutes.

35. If you catch your girl messing around with your best friend, let your states crime of passion laws be your guide.

36. If your buddy is trying to hook up with a girl, you may sabotage him only in a manor that gives you no chances of getting any either.

37. Before allowing a drunken friend to cheat on his girl, you must attempt one intervention. If he can get up on his feet, look you in the eye, and deliver a "**** off" then you are absolved from all responsibility. Later on it is ok that you have no idea what his girlfriend is talking about.

38. The morning after you and a babe, who was formerly "just a friend", go at it, the fact that you're feeling weird and guilty is no reason not to jump on her again before there is a discussion about what a big mistake it was.

39. If a buddy has lint, an eyelash, or any other foreign object on his hair or face, under no circumstances are you permitted to remove it. However an appropriate hand gesture may be made to make him aware of it.

40. An anniversary is recognized on a yearly basis, under no circumstances will anything be celebrated in an interval other than a year

41. When using a urinal in a public restroom, a buffer zone of at least one urinal will exist at all times. If the only empty urinal is directly next to an occupied on, then you are still required to wait. (Exception: at a sporting event where a line has formed to use the pisser)

42. When coming to a room which you know is occupied by your friend and possibly another girl, you must knock and wait for an adequate response. If no response occurs, and the door is locked, a 10 minute period is required before knocking again.

43. The only time dicking over a buddy for a girl is legal, is when the girl ranks a 8 or above on the 1-10 scale. (exception: a girl may rank from 5-7, as long as there is oral sex involved).

44. A mans gotta scratch what a mans gotta scratch. This applies to picking as well. Let the man be.

45. No man shall ever watch any of the following programs on TV:
Figure skating
Men's gymnastics
Any sport involving women (unless viewed for sexual purposes)

46. If you accidentally touch or brush against any part of another man below the waist, it is an understood accident, and NO apologies or any reference to the occurrence is necessary.

47. No man shall spend more than 2 minutes in front of a mirror. If more time is required, a three minute waiting period must be allowed before returning to the mirror.

48. Any dispute lasting any longer than 3 minutes will and must be settled by rock, paper, scissors. There is no argument too important for this determining method.

49. No man will ever willingly watch a movie in which the main theme is dancing, and if a man shall happen to view such a movie it is only acceptable if its with a girlfriend.

50. Only acceptable time when a man is allowed to cry:
when a heroic dog dies to save his master.
after being struck in the testicles with anything moving fast than 7 mph.
When your date is using her teeth.
The day Anna Kornikova chooses a husband.

51. If a bet is made, and the challenge is completed, then the bettor may recoup his money by immediately completing a more daring challenge. If he refuses the challenge or chooses not to propose one, then and only then, must the money be paid.

52. ********** often. (exception: if your roommate is due back within the hour)

53. If a hot girl shall happen to pass by while you are in an arms reach of your buddy, you must, and will, tap him on the shoulder to make him aware of the babe.

54. A man's shoes may not intentionally match any other article of clothing on his body.

55. No comment shall ever be made to a man about how much he is sweating. In fact, there is no need bring notice to any body part which he may be sweating from.

56. No man shall ever allow anyone to speak ill of The Simpsons or any Rocky movie. (Exception: Rocky V)

57. You have not made any mistake if you find that there are extra pieces after reassembling or assembling an object. In fact, you have just found a way to make that object more efficient.

58. There are is never an occasion in which any shirt without buttons may be tucked in. (Exception: when you are participating in a organized sporting event)

59. Unless you are under the age of 11 or wearing a bathing suit,, DON�T wear whitey tighty's. It still escapes all reasoning as to why they even make them in adult sizes.

60. Any object thrown with reasonable speed and accuracy, MUST be caught.

61. No man shall ever keep track of, or count, the amount of beers he has had in a night.

62. Under no circumstances may two non-related men share a bed or anything which can be perceived as a mattress.

63. In an empty room, car, ect., a man can not ask another man if he is mad because he isn�t talking.

64. If you jiggle more than twice, your playing with it.

65. A man shall never help another man apply sun tan oil.

66. The guy who wants something the most is responsible for getting it.

67. If your friend says "Lick my nuts" as a way to put you down, don't try to be funny by saying "OK" and moving your head towards his crotch, two ********** references in a row are just plain scary...

68. If you say ouch, you are a *****!

69. It is the God given duty of every man to assist any other man that may be in need of assistance in obtaining every guys dream (threesome with two girls)

The first one is Angels Fall First. For those who don't know what AFF is, it's basically a gorgeous universe (both story-wise and visuals-wise) created by an uber-talented team of gamers. Their upcoming works include both mods and full games. The mods are based off of Homeworld 2 (for space-combat) and Unreal Tournament 3 (for infantry combat). They also have two stand-alone homebrew games planned, but those are even further from release than the mods.
All in all, they have a VERY talented group of people working on it, the fiction of their universe is detailed and immersive, and the ship and character designs are unique (and most definitely cool looking).
I suggest you check it out.

The other link is to NetDevil's latest work, Jumpgate Evolution. It is an MMOG set in a post-post apocalyptic future, where divided human factions are but scattered remnants of their former glorious empires. As opposed to the style of EVE-Online, it is a twitch-based combat sim akin to Privateer, Wing Commander, X-Wing, and so on. I'm glad that they finally took such a type of game to the MMOG scene, and I am so very excited about it.

Speaking of cool games of the future, I guess I should also mention Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
www.warhammeronline.com/

I'd try explaining how infinitely awesome it is, but I think Paul Barnett does an equally infinitely better job than I ever possibly could.
So, check out their video podcasts at:
http://www.warhammeronline.com/english/media/podcast/
and of course Paul's own video blog; short (and funny) little bits done on his little digicam/cellcam:
http://www.warhammeronline.com/english/behindTheScenes/vidPhoneDiaries/

Anyway, that's enough of that.
Back to playing games that ARE released instead of drooling over those yet to come.

~Jason

Anyways, as opposed to a rant, which I could EASILY do on this subject, I will instead be PLEADING to all of the narcissistic MMOG players out there to stop being your usual ego-centric "the world revolves around me" self. Please.

Usually, I don't go through forums much, but lately I've taken more and more time to read through forums of various MMOs in an effort to not only become more familiar with the game and community, but more involved in it as well.

I kinda wish I didn't.

Case point: The thread "Some love for the Amarr, new Dev Blog by Zulupark" on the EVE-Online.com forums.

As I've told Winterblink, it is:
1% CCP Zulupark, a dev no less, being scared absolutely SHITLESS and trying to avoid certain death by using generic vague comments to stifle the mob.

4% is me, and a few others (DigitalCommunist, Lyria Skydancer, and a few other big-name toons IIRC) trying to tell everyone to CALM THE FUCK DOWN, STOP THREATENING THE DEVS, AND STOP BEING INSULTING DICKS. Needless to say, in a world where MMOGs have apparently been taken over by egocentric bastards, and the forums more so, we were unsuccessful in convincing the uber-whiners to be less of their infuriatingly narcissistic selves and either STFU or GTFO.

95% of course is the aforementioned whiners. My "Biggest jerks in the world" award goes to you. Hands down, you deserved it. Congratulations. 

The moral of the story here is, kids, that you must NOT be little babies. Just because your "uber items" or "I win buttons" are no longer orders of magnitudes better than everyone else doesn't mean you have the right to go bitch and whine on forums, much less INSULT the devs and threaten them of your quitting the game. Please get it into your thick and probably empty skulls that they are trying to BALANCE the game, and "our race being better than the others" is not balance. Please also stop trying to justify your incorrect sense of balance with half-assed nonsensical proofs that only look at the smaller picture, short term goals, or no proof at all. Finally, please, for the love of all that is good, stop flaming, insulting, and otherwise being jerks to the Devs, and to the people who can prove their point (the guys trying to balance the game, or support such balance) better than you (who's sense of "balance" is obviously egotistic and skewed).

KKTHNXBYE

~Jason

So after that introduction, all of you (some? few? NONE? I hope not) may be wondering, "okay, so it's a state of MMOG's addres, then what exactly IS the state of MMOG's?"
Simple: PATHETIC.

Problem #1: Subscription fees.
The corporate machine grinds on, churning the millions upon millions of less-than-upper-middle-class-citizens beneath its deadly tracks. Of course, the gaming industry being one of the biggest growing industries would follow in that gargantuan's wake.
Problem.
Guild Wars have proved that subscription fees are NOT NEEDED for a successful MMOG. So why go on and do it? Why piss off millions of potential players? Money? Go to hell greedy bastards.
Now, I understand some games are a little more... hard core, shall we say, so it would not attract a big enough fan-base for sustainability only from box-sales, but the big'uns of the MMOG industry should at least provide free expansions.

And that brings me to Problem #2: SOLD expansions. That's right, not FREE expansions. SOLD expansions.
No-subscription MMOG's should of course sell expansions, but MMOG's with subscriptions should NOT charge for them. They should be free. TAKE A FUCKING CUE FROM EVE-ONLINE WILL YA?
Problem. Again.
I mean, with a 10+ million (last I heard was 14M or something stupid like that) subscriber base, MMORPG monster World of Warcraft should NOT be charging for new expansions. Yet here it is, happily rolling a long with a giant money-vacuum going vhom-vhom. WTF? Seriously, you guys have enough fucking money from subscriptions alone, why the FUCK would you need more? Greedy bastards.

Problem #3: No innovation. Like most other game genres, innovations is more or less dead. There is no more of the "trying to be original" mentality in the business. Instead, they seek to make their product SEEM original, but in reality they are nothing but age-old tried-and-true formulaic cookie-cutter games dressed up with some clever publicity and shiny new graphics.

That said, there's still hope for the future.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (commonly known as "WAR") and Age of Conan (or just "Conan"). These games look fun, and though are still subscription-based, they each have their originalities.
Age of Conan seeks to be a free-roaming MMORPG where you can do anything, and appropriately includes some adult content. Its style of humor and story is just something you can't find in other places.
Warhammer Online, on the other hand, has a totally revamped PVP system, as well as original questing and skills systems.

I like that.

Oh and kudos to Paul Barnett, the hilarious (un/official?) spokesperson for WAR.

~Jason