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Massively Mother-Approved Online: Cartoon Network’s New MMORPG

As each new generation grows more and more net-savvy, new steps are being taken to provide safe havens for our impressionable youngsters. Cartoon Network, a company that knows a thing or two about keeping kids entertained, is entering the online fray: Cartoon Network is preparing to launch Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall (appropriately) this fall. On the surface, FusionFall looks like a standard kid-safe MMORPG which leverages CN's portfolio of unique characters, but as we learned during an extended conference with the FusionFall team yesterday, it has the potential to be much more than another single-click-combat level grinder -- and, as parents will be pleased to discover, it employs some fascinatingly extensive technology in the name of child safety.

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Preview: Hands-on with Aion: Tower of Eternity

Fantasy MMORPGs are a tricky thing to report one’s impressions on. Here is a genre of game whose very design is intended to be epic and time-consuming, providing players with dozens upon dozens of hours of large, suitably “massive” tasks like exploring a sprawling new game world, battling and questing your way through a rich, [...]

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Warhammer Online Set to Ship on September 18th

Warhammer fans, rejoice; EA Mythic has announced that your long wait for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is nearly over. The Warhammer-themed MMORPG has been a long time coming, but you may finally calm down and let your mind rest at ease, knowing that the game will launch in just over a month, on September 18th, [...]

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Star Trek Online is Back in Business

We already knew this was happening, honestly, but today, the countdown timer has ended, and the announcement has been made official: Cryptic Studios, the MMO developer behind City of Heroes and the upcoming Champions Online, has taken the development reins for Star Trek Online. Enterprising gamers had identified this with 99% certainty some 45 days [...]

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Review: Catan Online World

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 [...]

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Opinion: Pay to Not Play?

“I don’t seem to be having any fun. Maybe I need to be paying more.” It’s difficult to imagine a player saying these words about a game. Yet, there is an entire business model that centers around providing this precise benefit to players — most frequently, of MMORPGs and other games whose balance centers on levels [...]

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New Free-to-Play Game Offers Free-to-Work Job Positions

It’s said that you should never let money come between you and your friends. By that token, the folks at Eyes Out Entertainment would like to be your very best friends in the world. If it has long been your dream to work in the game industry without the corrupting influences that come of being [...]

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Age of Conan Collector’s Edition Sold Out Worldwide

What is best in life? When so many people want to play your game that the expensive super-premium collector’s edition has completely sold out in all available markets. Oh, and the lamentations, etc. Funcom is reporting that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will ship roughly 700,000 copies on day one, which just happens to be [...]

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Closed Beta Registration Opens for Stargate Worlds

Have you always wanted to pretend to be Richard Dean Anderson pretending to be Kurt Russell? Haven’t we all? Firesky is taking sign-ups to participate in the closed beta test of Stargate Worlds, an in-production MMORPG centered around jumping through watery holes, threatening primitive screwheads with your boomstick, and wondering why there hasn’t been anymore [...]

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Age of Conan Goes Gold, Women Lament

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to officially have a gold master disc after five years of development. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, the decapitation enthusiast’s MMORPG from Funcom, has finally gone gold after multiple delays, confirming once again its current launch date of May 20th, [...]

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