Right now it feels like it is game drought and as a result I've started playing MMO. First I tested Lord of the Rings Online and got two friends to join me on this. Then another friend persuaded me to try Champions Online. Both games are Free-To-Play, and both games cost me about 80 NOK each month, and they cost nothing to buy. They was both good enough that I found it worth paying at least for a month.

Champions Online I find a bit too hectic for my taste, much as you can barely move on the ground without getting a big tail of mobs. And the world is not particularly exiting to explore. But they have gotten right the feeling of being a superhero. Story-wise it's all too cheese. The world feels like they have taken all the most ridiculously things from Marvel, DC and all other superhero worlds, and put it into a big kettle and mixed it. They have very little originality, and on top of all that, they don't take themselves seriously at all.

Lord of the Rings Online surprised me. A Free to Play, where there are very few restrictions, lots of land to explore, and so far there has been a compelling story, both the main story and the side quests. Like all MMOs so far, it still have a lot of "gathering" quests, but the drops have yet not been particularly rare, and often you get enough drops just by doing other quests. So it does not feel like grinding as much. If I should complain about something in Lord of the Rings Online, it would be that combat isn't very exciting when you are alone, and that the auction house is almost useless, barely anyone selling nor buying anything.

But as soon as March begins, sequel after sequel to good games will blossom like the first dandelions of spring. Here are lists of the games I look most forward too, in order of priority:

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (25 august, 2011)
• Duke Nukem Forever (6 may, 2011)
• Assassins Creed 2 Brotherhood (22 march, 2011)
• Portal 2 (april, 2011)
• Dragon Age 2 (11. march, 2011)
• Total War: Shogun 2 (15. march, 2011)
• Mass Effect 3 (4. quarter, 2011)
• Batman: Arkham City (3. quarter, 2011)

Have an awesome gaming year, everyone!