Free-to-play, casual MMORPGs seem to be the new "hip" thing in online gaming. So, it’s not too surprising to learn that yesterday, a brand new publisher, Uforia, entered the fray. Their first project? Bringing the popular Korean MMORPG, "Nostale," to North America. "We are thrilled to be able to bring 'Nostale: Global' to the North American [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
Fans of the free to play -- in cynics' words it's pay to enjoy -- MMORPG "The Chronicles of Spellborn" can get a good glimpse of what's in store for their in-game future. The latest update by community manager Banshee details what's next for the imminent content patch, as well as long-term development plans for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
Funcom has announced all of the servers that will be merged into one, for the US, European and German versions of their initially very popular MMORPG. While nearly 50 servers had been available, these will be reduced to less than 20 within a couple of weeks. Call me bitter but I expected this type of change [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 9, 2009
At a CES Game Power panel on the topic of virtual worlds for PC, console and mobile phone, only the very last question asked had anything to do with the cell phone -- and the panel was tragically cut short before any of the distinguished guests could answer. But GameCyte wasn't going to leave it at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
Shortly after celebrating their game's continuing growth, CCP announce the upcoming March release for what they dub the most ambitious Eve Online expansion yet, Apocrypha. Offering all-new areas, skills, and the versatile customisable "Tech 3" ships, which are able to fill any role, combative or not, fans of the unique space MMORPG are in for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
With Sony having changed their EverQuest and EverQuest 2 MMORPGs into utilising a new micro-transaction payment system, fans of Turbine's MMORPG titles, like Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, had a reason to be worried when a job listing showed that this company is also very interested in the field. Their official [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Long-time Eve Online players still remember the times they used to try and mass log-on, with both primary and alternate characters, in order to break the 10 or 15 thousands simultaneous users record. CCP's space MMORPG has come a long way since then, as yesterday saw the announcement of 45,186 simultaneous players. The emphasis is on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 22, 2008
Even though it wasn’t supposed to become free until early January, it looks like Richard Garriott’s sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa has entered the free-to-play mode as an early Christmas present to gamers. (Other than those who invested their time in the game, that is; they get an early reminder that in two months the game [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
On Monday, Alex wrote about Runs of Magic entering open beta. One of the first high-profile micro-transaction based MMOs in the west, a lot of gamers were keeping their eyes on it. And, apparently, playing it.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Sure, if you’ve got a Mac you can play WoW, but now you’ve got other choices! Or you will soon, at least. Yesterday, City of Heroes opened up their Mac beta—only four and a half years after the game first released! Viva la Mac! Writing on the official CoH forums, lead designer Matt Miller welcomed Mac [...]
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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