The kid-friendly, family-oriented MMORPG Wizard101, which looks like a hybrid of World of Warcraft and Harry Potter, will soon be updated with PvP functions. While I personally haven't tried this one, it actually looks quite good and it might just be worth a look, if you are parents crazy enough to initiate your own children [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
When I first got a call about playing and writing a feature about the Gaia Online-based browser MMORPG, zOMG!, I was fairly hesitant. Like many, my knowledge of what Gaia was came only from other forums which made fun of its community using overblown and extreme cliches. (For those who don't know what it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
Among gaming's most dedicated enthusiasts, the Megami Tensei series is an especially cherished franchise. Spanning over twenty years and dozens of titles across several spin-off franchises, "MegaTen," as it is frequently abbreviated, has a loyal following among hardcore gamers. Once largely the domain of importers, MegaTen's various games have seen a recent surge in popularity [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
At the EA Studio Showcase in mid-August, DICE producer Ben Cousins presented a chart to attending press that depicted the full release schedule for Battlefield Heroes as a series of concentric circles. Starting with a close-knit closed beta, Cousins explained that EA's first Free-2-Play shooter was currently expanding to include friends, family and journalists like [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
On the first of the month, Nexon's Min Kim told AFP that while he didn't expect the company's free-to-play games would have quite the runaway success in the U.S. that they enjoy in South Korea, he expected some "pretty big numbers" regardless. Today, Nexon has published one of those numbers: 1,000,000. That's the number of users [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 15, 2008
With all the fun we've been having with our team-oriented FPS titles lately, we were glad to be able to try a new title which will soon be competing for our assault attentions. Thus, at yesterday's EA Studio Showcase, we sat down to blast some cartoonish soldiers in Battlefield Heroes, the new "casual" incarnation of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
There's a very good chance that you've played -- or are, at least, aware of -- The Settlers of Catan, a German-born board game which has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. If you've played it, you know how clever and fun it is, and if you haven't, you may remember how excited everybody was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 30, 2008
GameCyte goes hands-on with Nexon's first free-to-play first-person shooter. Our impressions.
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
Looks like Battlefield Heroes isn't the only free-to-play, easily laptoppable online first-person shooter competing for your beta applications. Today, Nexon announced Combat Arms, a primarily squad-based shooter slated for release later this summer. Combat Arms will kick off a short closed beta on May 30th, which will last one week.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Eurogamer just noticed today that DICE has begun accepting applications for the Battlefield Heroes closed beta test. It's not quite as easy as joining the real U.S. Army -- no promises to pay your college tuition here, only a form to fill out and a forum to greet you afterwards -- but to the lucky [...]
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