After finally completing the Knight of the Blazing Sun and Blackguard classes in December, "Warhammer Online" marches on into new, unexplored territory fraught with danger and peril. Actually, the game is just finally officially being released in Russia. Today, Mythic Entertainment has announced that "WAR" will go live in Russia starting February 5, 2009.
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Today, Cartoon Network's new browser-based MMORPG, 'FusionFall,' officially launches. The game began its open beta last December, and between its start and today more than 2.5 million beta accounts were created. "The response to 'FusionFall' during our beta phase and sneak peek play weekends has been phenomenal," said Chris Waldron, executive producer of the game. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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...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, January 5, 2009
I love MMORPGs, but ever since UO basically made the genre mainstream in the late 90s, 3 out of 4 titles have taken place in fantasy settings, and very few fall within the realm of sci-fi. Of the ones that did/do, the only truly successful ones involve licensed properties; even UOs creator, Lord British, couldn’t [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 1, 2009
If you didn’t get into the closed beta, missed out on the free beta keys, and still want to give Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online a shot, you’re in luck, because Aeria Games has officially launched the MMO’s open beta phase.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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