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Torchlight has been one of the surprise hits of 2009. The game offers an experience pretty similar to that delivered by the initial Diablo, but with a few very interesting twists, like allowing players to recruit pets that can cast spells and sell loot. It was created by a team of dedicated role playing game veterans... |
19 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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A study conducted by the NPD Group shows that 14% of American households have a monthly subscription to a MMO, more than ever before. This is happening just as more and more people are renouncing subscriptions to magazines and daily newspapers, showing that digital entertainment is replacing traditional media as the ... |
19 November 2009
03:04 GMT |
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With Dragon Age: Origins now out and capturing the fantasy of players, it's rather easy to forget that BioWare is also working on Mass Effect 2, which is set to arrive in January, and on The Old Republic, the Star Wars based MMO, which is set to arrive later in 2010. Related to the last project, the company has ... |
11 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it has bought Playfish, a company specialized in delivering social casual videogames, for the price of 300 million. The importance of the acquisition is underlined by the fact that on the same day it was announced, Electronic Arts has also posted mounting losses, which came close to... |
11 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that Star Trek Online, their MMO that will allow players to live the life of a starship captain, is set to go live on February 2 in North America and on February 5 in Europe.The news is not yet offered on the official page of the project, ... |
10 November 2009
07:15 GMT |
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2009 has not been a great year for World of Warcraft when it comes to its Chinese operations. Blizzard, the creator of the game, has decided to change the Chinese operator for the MMO from The9 to NetEase, a company that has promised to provide a bigger percentage of earnings as royalties.But the transfer itself was ... |
7 November 2009
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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft, the biggest subscription MMO in the world, is getting a Pet Store that will allow players to get in-game companions for the price of 10 dollars. The pets offer no clear gameplay benefit for those who buy them and are strictly cosmetic in nature. After the money is paid i... |
5 November 2009
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Cryptic Studios has announced that its recently launched MMO Champions Online now has more than 1 million characters created and running around saving the in-game world. The videogame was published by Atari, which was acquired Cryptic earlier in the year, and offers players a chance to choose their appearance, their ... |
30 October 2009
14:11 GMT |
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LEGO is big in the world of video gaming. We have LEGO Star Wars, we have LEGO Batman and LEGO Indiana Jones, we are set to get LEGO Rock Band, but the biggest project that includes the well-known bricks is LEGO Universe, a MMO-like experience that is being developed by NetDevil and that has been recently demoed in f... |
27 October 2009
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Square Enix has announced that it plans to release an Ultimate Collection version of Final Fantasy XI, which is set to arrive as a digital download on November 12. The package will contain all the content that the publisher has so far provided for the MMO and will allow interested players to get the full experience o... |
27 October 2009
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Cryptic, the developer, has announced that its MMO Champions Online is set to become free to play for all those interested in superheroes and social gaming for the upcoming weekend. Between Friday, October 30, and Monday, November 2, the video game is open to everyone in an effort made by the show runners to attract ... |
26 October 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The PC video-game chart often gets overlooked when the NPD Group numbers for hardware and software sales are announced each month. After all, the big battle between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii is much more interesting than the supposedly moribund market for PC titles. But a quick look at the ... |
22 October 2009
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Sony has announced that both The Green Arrow and The Green Lantern are confirmed as appearing in DC Universe Online, the MMO that is being developed for both the PlayStation 3 and the PC and set to be launched in 2010. The company has released images of both characters as they will be encountered in the videogame by ... |
20 October 2009
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced a host of events set to be introduced in MMOs like the Everquest pair, Legends of Norrath, Star Wars Galaxies and Free Realms as Halloween approaches. The biggest events should take place in Free Realms, the free-to-play MMO that Sony launched this year. The Super Spooktaculer ... |
19 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Mythic Entertainment, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning should get a special Halloween event, which is set to run from October 23 to November 2 and will offer players a chance to experience fresh quests, get into a new Realm vs. Rea... |
19 October 2009
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Lord of the Rings Online might not be as popular as World of Warcraft but it has a steady player base that seems intent on seeing how the MMO proceeds in its quest to follow the Fellowship of the Ring in its adventures. The next step will come with the Siege of Mirkwood expansion, which is set to be delivered on Dece... |
19 October 2009
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The Australian Classification Board, best known in the last few weeks for the row surrounding the Left 4 Dead ban for the territory, has announced that Blizzard’s MMO World of Warcraft has received an M for Mature rating and will now be labeled as such on store shelves.When the most popular subscription-based M... |
15 October 2009
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The idea that gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony are the mediums that MMOs will conquer next has been around for some years but while multiplayer-oriented gaming has been on the rise on those platforms, no MMO managed to really gain traction on devices that are dominated ... |
14 October 2009
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It seems that China is eager to make sure that foreign companies are shut out of the lucrative MMO market of the country, which is set to generate a record amount of revenue this year.The General Administration of Press and Publication together with the National Copyright Administration of the Communist state have an... |
14 October 2009
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With Champions Online released and playable, Cryptic is shifting its development team to work on its next project, Star Trek Online, the MMO set to arrive in 2010, allowing gamers to take on the role of Starfleet captain in a distant future when the Khitomer Accords have broken down and the Federation and Klingon Emp... |
13 October 2009
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Micro transactions are all the rage when it comes to PC-based MMORPGs. Free Realms is gaining more and more users and getting regular content updates from Sony even as BioWare seems to be hinting that its upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic is set to feature micro transactions as a possible paying option. And now, M... |
8 October 2009
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Sony Online Entertainment announced having released a new update for its Free Realms MMO, named Goal Time, set to introduce players to the world of football with the inclusion of a new 3D mini game in which up to four players can take part at the same time and with the addition of a new Soccer Star in-game job. Sony ... |
7 October 2009
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Evidence indicates that Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO BioWare is working on at the moment, will be powered by micro transactions, at least in part. The source is the actual license agreement that players need to accept if they register for the beta stage of the MMO. The main references are to “points&rdq... |
5 October 2009
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It seems that trouble related to Age of Conan is finally catching up with developer and publisher Funcom, which, last year, released the MMO based on the Hyperborian world so vividly brought to life by Arnold “The Governor” Schwarzenegger. There are reports that the company will be forced to cut off 20% o... |
2 October 2009
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A beta for yet another MMO has been closing in, but this isn't a regular MMO, so all those World of Warcraft worshipers won't have another game to bully and tag as less than WoW. The developer of the game, Dundee, started giving out its beta applications in August and months turned to weeks, turned to days ... |
2 October 2009
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As part of its marketing strategy, Microsoft plans to invest more than $19 million dollars in the online gaming industry of South Korea. The investment will be spread across four years, reports the Korea Creative Content Agency, and the money will go into training, marketing and development and will be received by 25... |
29 September 2009
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Blizzard has recently revealed that it plans to deploy yet another expansion for its successful MMO World of Warcraft. This one will be called Cataclysm and will be the most ambitious yet, if initial statements from the developer are to be believed. Players can look forward to getting a completely new game world, whi... |
28 September 2009
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NetEase has officially announced that World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription-based MMO in the gaming world, has been relaunched on the Chinese market and both old and new players can now enjoy the experience of raiding and playing PvP without any restrictions. The operations of the MMO in China have been i... |
23 September 2009
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Star Wars: The Old Republic is a very ambitious project. It aims to offer full-voice acting for the characters that make an appearance, which already sets it apart from every other MMO project going on at the moment. It aims to offer meaningful, moral choices for player parties that affect their development for the r... |
22 September 2009
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Turbine Inc. has created a very robust MMO in The Lord of the Rings Online and the expansion, Mines of Moria, which it put out for it. The game never got to the same level of success that Blizzard's World of Warcraft achieved, but it has done well enough to warrant another expansion and to allow Turbine to work ... |
22 September 2009
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Sony is announcing that its old MMO, Star Wars Galaxy, might be getting some new blood via an update that is set to introduce a series of game quests where players need to face a horde of Stormtrooper zombies. The move is designed to promote an upcoming Star Wars-themed book, called Death Troopers, that is set to arr... |
21 September 2009
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NCsoft might be doing notably well on its big-budget market, but it seems the lesser project won't stay afloat without the proper attention. The casual market for MMOGs isn't as indulging as one might think, and halfhearted games just don't seem to cut it. As such, NCsoft had to let go of five of the D... |
21 September 2009
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PalTalk Holdings, a New York company that claims to be holding several patents that are related to how data is shared amongst connected computers, has filed a law suit against major video-gaming companies like Sony Online Entertainment, Activision Blizzard and Turbine, saying that they infringe on its property by imp... |
18 September 2009
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Sony must be quite pleased with its newest MMO, Free Realms. The game was only launched on the PC in April of this year and John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment, has announced that there are already five million players who are engaged with the free-to-play, micro-transaction-based video ga... |
17 September 2009
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World of Warcraft is the biggest subscription-based MMO in the world of videogames at the moment and it's bringing a lot of money in for Activision Blizzard. The company is not giving up on it, as expressed by the announcement of a new expansion called Cataclysm, but for some time now, it has quietly been workin... |
16 September 2009
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LucasArts has been featured in the news quite a lot lately. The company first revealed the name and style of a new Xbox Live Arcade and PC puzzle platformer, called Lucidity, and now the president of the company seems to be revealing that his outfit is ready to announce some new Star Wars-themed videogames set to be ... |
15 September 2009
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Bethesda Softworks, the company that currently holds the rights to the Fallout franchise, has filed a law suit against former owner Interplay saying that it has failed to hold up its end of an agreement signed in April 2007 and likely saved Interplay from bankruptcy.The reason for the legal action is a product called... |
14 September 2009
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All Points Bulletin, the upcoming city-based MMO from Realtime Worlds, is set to get an open beta in the coming months and has a released date set for the early months of 2010 but precious little details have been offered by the developers or its publishing partner, Electronic Arts, regarding gameplay. It seems that ... |
10 September 2009
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We all know that BioWare, now part of the mighty Electronic Arts empire, is working on a Star Wars themed MMO that is shaping up to be quite an experience. Initial reports are saying that the game will be fully voiced, a first for the genre, moral consequences will be central to the game, each class will offer the sa... |
9 September 2009
18:01 GMT |
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All Points Bulletin is one of the most interesting MMO projects coming up for release in 2010 and there surely are players bored of fantasy multiplayer online worlds who are eager to jump into a fully detailed city to wage street battles either on the side of the law or against it. For all those people, the developer... |
9 September 2009
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After China, which at one point used military driven programs, South Korea and Taiwan, the United States seem to have gotten the first clinic wholly dedicated to treating Internet addiction in mostly young patients. The center is called reSTART and is situated in a suburb of Seattle.The main program it offers runs up... |
9 September 2009
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For quite some time, politicians have talked about videogames as a plague on society and championed schemes designed to limit their sales while blaming them for the ills of society.But even as their rhetoric seems to be toning down, a new generation of gaming politicians seems to be rising up and seeking positions of... |
8 September 2009
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We have reported on the legal action that Turbine, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, has taken against publisher Atari, claiming that it has actively undermined its game in order to be ready to promote another D&D-based MMO, probably the Cryptic created Neverwinter Nights Online. Now, Atari has of... |
4 September 2009
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The Walt Disney Company has announced that it has taken over comic book company Marvel Entertainment in a deal that has been valued at around 4 billion dollars. This basically means that Mickey Mouse and Wolverine are now buddies and that more than 5,000 characters from comic books might be developed by Disney.The de... |
1 September 2009
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Champions Online will probably never get to be as popular as the current king of the MMOs, World of Warcraft from Blizzard; still, the game will surely find a niche market amongst those interested in superpowers, made villains and saving the world.The videogame is set to arrive on September 1 but only those who play ... |
31 August 2009
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NCsoft has announced two programs that will attract players to its newest MMO, Aion, in the coming weeks, as the game is getting ready for its big North American and European releases.Aion is already a big success in South East Asia and, after having recently shut down another MMO, Tabula Rasa, is hoping that the new... |
31 August 2009
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Turbine, a development studio best known for creating The Lord of the Rings Online, is saying that it has sued publisher Atari claiming that it breached contract by reducing the support for MMO Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach so that Atari could produce and publish a D&D MMO project that it developed internally... |
28 August 2009
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CCP Games has updated the developer blog with information on four new epic mission arcs recently added to its sci-fi MMO, EVE Online, available for Mac and PC. CCP Games earlier announced that the mini-expansion pack Apocrypha 1.5 was becoming available Thursday, August 20. Apocrypha 1.5 brought, among other additio... |
27 August 2009
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Blizzard, which is still working on real time strategy Starcraft II, set to come in early 2010, and on Diablo III, which will probably arrive in 2011, caused a lot of waves by announcing that it plans to deliver yet another full-fledged expansion for its World of Warcraft MMO. It is called Cataclysm, does not have a ... |
26 August 2009
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Mythic Entertainment, the developer of Warhammer Online, is announcing a variety of events and fresh content meant to mark the one-year anniversary of its MMO. The celebrations are set to begin on September 1 and will try to get new players into the MMO that launched with some innovative features, like public quests ... |
24 August 2009
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