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| Test Your Street Gears in MMO Beta |  | There are all sorts of MMO games available and since the industry is booming, we dare to believe that the development of new titles will (and should) never stop. Trying their luck with a relatively new genre, developers NFlavor Corp, present us Street Gears, a free roller MMORPG. The game ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Death Knight Is the New Class for Wrath of the Lich King |  | As the release date for the second World of Warcraft expansion is fast approaching, the people at Blizzard have released more information on the new class that the expansion will bring, the Death Knight. The class itself seems to be part tank, part spellcaster, which definitely makes it one of the more interesting ideas to come out from ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Age of Conan Not Ready for DirectX 10 |  | Just as the game went live and Funcom released data showing that the Collector's Edition of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures was sold out, it seems that there's some bad news in store for those gamers who wanted to experience the MMO in full DirectX 10 glory ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Trade for Real Money in The Agency |  | Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its upcoming spy-filled MMO called The Agency will ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pirates of the Burning Sea Gets New Classes |  | Game developer Flying Labs has announced that its pirate-themed MMO will be getting two new classes as part of a big ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fantasy Isle Brought to Lineage II |  | For the hardcore fans of Lineage II, it seems that only PvP battles and castle sieges matter lately, but NCsoft plans to change things around: they have announced the introduction of a new area in the game world, an area that initially doesn't seem to fit the game a ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Requiem: Bloodymare Enters Open Beta |  | Dubbed by its developers as the "goriest game to hit the MMO world", Requiem: Bloodymare has opened its arms and is ready to welcome anybody interested in the open beta. This means that, if you are fast enough, you will be one of the first players to enjoy t ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Subscriptions Bring In 1 Billion Dollars |  | The NPD, already well known for the sales charts that it puts out every month regarding the console market and the games market, is creating a new report that deals with the online subscription market. The results of the first study of this kind are now out an ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Join Fury League to Battle for Cash |  | It's no longer a secret that more and more online games are offering real prizes in real cash and now Fury League has been created in order to join the already existing titles and try to reach the status of "best of the best". H ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Codemasters Developing MMOs In-House |  | As Codemasters is preparing for the launch of the NetDevil-developed MMO Jumpgate, which it hopes will capture MMO players that love space more than they love orcs and elfs, David Solari, vice president of the company, has made a few remarks regarding the future of Codemas ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bioware MMO Aims to Innovate |  | Many people felt a deep pain when Bioware was acquired by Electronic Arts, with lots of them fearing the fact that the studio might loose its edge and even disband under EA leadership. But with a MMO in development and a Sonic themed RPG in queue as well, Bioware seems to be thriving ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NASA Explains Free MMO Request |  | We have already told you about NASA's desire to create an educational MMO for youngsters who want to learn more about space - back then, NASA said it had $3 million for the project, but things have changed a little bit and the project seems further away from becoming reality. L ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New MMO from Petroglyph and True Games |  | The world of MMOs is changing as more and more developers try and modify the business model that's based on subscription. The free-to-play mode, that makes a game free for all players and relies on money from advertising and microtransactions to pay for the operating c ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Smaller Number of Servers for Pirates of the Burning Sea |  | One of the main issues with MMO development is that the game needs to attract a significant number of players so that the community events and certain gameplay mechanics work as they were designed to. Recently, the developers of the high sea themed MMO ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blizzard Unveils World of Warcraft 2008 Arena Tournament |  | The E-sports movement is becoming more and more important as time passes by. There's a competitive urge in all of us and gamers tend to take that urge and exploit it to get better at the games they play. Without it, we wouldn't care when someone thrashes us in Call of Duty 4 multiplayer or when someone beats us up in an 1 on 1 game of Starcraft.
As the multiplayer scene grew up and as broadband became more reliable a ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 19:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mortal Online Is a Fantasy MMO Like No Other |  | Star Vault's CEO and founder, Henrik Nyström, announced that his company would develop a first-person MMORPG called Mortal Online. The game will be powered by the Unreal 3 engine and will feature a fantasy world with complete detail and a large backstory.
The developer wants to do away with the classic distinction that exists in ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 16:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hitman Creators Form New Studio |  | The founders of IO Interactive and creators of Hitman and Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Neil Donnell and David Guldbrandsen, have announced the birth of a new development company called Reto-Moto. Its goal will be to re-define the ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Saga Details Arise |  | With the beta testing of MMORTS going well and only one month away until Saga gets released, new details regarding the game have been made available, as well as confirmation of the fact that MMO is fully " ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| EVE Slams Real Money Trading |  | Almost all MMOs that gain sufficient popularity with the gamer base have to deal, at one point, with the appearance of Real Money Trading or RTM. The idea is that someone makes money in-game, mainly through activities that are borderline or even outright banned by the creators, and then he ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft Has Peaked |  | After some talk at the MI6 conference on the fact that there's an 800 million possible MMO audience out there and World of Warcraft has only managed to capture around 10 million of them, more WoW critiques are on the horizon, this one coming from THQ executive Jack Sorenson, who is in ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World of Warcraft Is Not a “Real” Success |  | The MI6 Marketing Conference, that takes place in San Francisco and concentrates on the business side of games development, featured a lengthy panel discussion about the MMO business modes and the potential for growth that free-to-play games could have in the near future.
The most important speakers were Daniel James of Three Rings, creator of Puzzle Pirates, Andrew Sheppard of Outspark, the company that makes Fiesta, Min Kim ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Warhammer MMO Detailed |  | In the future there is only war. Not like in the past, when in fantasy Warhammer you could just call in your Empire, Skaven and Chaos friends only to go hit a few bars and then come home to some hot High Elf chicks. I am, of course, kidding, but the mantra of continuous war is something we are going to hear a lot in the coming months as more details about the ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Digital Extremes President Talks Dark Sector |  | Dark Sector was released earlier this month and critics were divided over it. There were those that dismissed it as being a Gears of War clone with a unique innovation in the glaive weapon and a story full of holes. Others were won over by the dual wielding mechanics that pair ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 02:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TrackMania Nations Forever - Beautiful, Great, Free |  | You probably are one of the 30 million people who have downloaded and installed the online racing game TrackMania Nations and I'm absolutely sure you were hoping for even more. If you did, your sweetest dreams are close to turning into reality, because the ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MMO Football Superstars Ready for Beta |  | The game that will bring a fresh approach to both MMO games and soccer titles, Football Superstars, has reached the "feature complete" stage of its development and is now ready for beta testing. If everything goes as planned, this game's developers, CyberSports, ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Lineage II Set to Conquer Europe |  | Lineage II is set to get a new and extremely well endowed Collector's Edition especially for the European market. NCsoft was quick to present details and also set a date for the release of the special offering. So, on April 25 prepare to experience the best that Lineage has to offer for ar ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Realtime Worlds Gets 50 Million |  | Realtime Worlds, a Scotland-based developer that is currently working on gang themed MMO All Points Bulletin, managed to secure a 50-million-dollar financing line from Maverick Capital, with consulting handled by Montgomery & Co. The company has now acquired its third fin ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dreamlords - The Reawakening Announced, Free |  | The first Dreamlords title was not exactly a critically acclaimed game, but MMORTS has its fans and this is exactly the reason why Swedish developers Lockpick Entertainment have decided to develop a sequel as, unlike the MMOs you know, this one actually ended. But since no game ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bluehole Licenses Unreal Engine |  | The Unreal 3 engine is quickly becoming the preferred base on which to build a number of games, from the traditional First-Person Shooters to third-person shooter, MMOs and even social communities. The main reason is that the engine provides great visuals while als ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Warhammer Online Delayed Again |  | Games that are delayed again and again rarely make it on the market. Think of Duke Nukem 3D. After all the damn time that the game has spent in various stages of production, even the most die-hard fans are likely not to bother to pick it up when it gets into stores; if it ever gets into stores.
So, the news that ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NCsoft to Create Two Titles Using the Unreal Engine 3 |  | Probably there are some statistics hidden on the Internet, but for this issue we don't even need them: the Unreal Engine 3 is probably the most licensed engine on the market. As a further proof stands this new announcement from NCsoft which says that the company ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Miss Bimbo Promotes Breast Enhancements to Little Girls |  | Does anyone in the audience want to become the "perfect bimbo"? Because the Internet offers anyone that chance. And don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against bimbos. And I don't have anything against a bimbo simulator MMO. But marketing this ga ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 21:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Jumpgate Evolution Wants You to Dig and Craft |  | Jumpgate Evolution is a MMO due to be released by NetDevil, and recently, its producer, Hermann Peterscheck, has answered a lot of questions related to the game. It's interesting to see how a new MMO is trying to explore niches and details that will make it a viable choic ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Codemasters Targets MMO Market |  | Codemasters is prepared to reach out and touch someone. Or rather something, as its aim is in producing two MMOs targeted at the gaming consoles, especially the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.
The Codemasters Online Gaming or COG division has already launched fou ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubisoft Acquires Tom Clancy Rights |  | In a move that will cost 20 million Euro (which is around 30 million dollars) for the fiscal year of 2008 alone, French game publisher and developer Ubisoft announced yesterday that it acquired the exclusive right to all intellectual property that uses the "Tom Clancy" name or ti ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Digimon MMO in the Making |  | Earlier in the day we talked about the rise of the Chinese MMO market and about how the value of business conducted in that market was going to reach 3 billion dollars by 2010. Now we're going to talk about how MMOs developed on Eastern principles have a shot at gett ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Future of On-line Gaming Might Be in China |  | A recent study details the way in which the Chinese on-line game market is developing and provides a few very interesting numbers regarding money spent on games. The highlight of the Pearl Research study is the statement that in 2010, the Chinese on-line game ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Agency Details |  | The Agency was announced last year as a shooter MMO coming to both the PC and the PlayStation 3. Sony Onlin ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nickelodeon/MTV Moving On-line |  | More players are developing their presence in the on-line and casual games markets. And more and more companies that hold original media-based intellectual property, like television networks and animation companies, are trying to use the licenses they hold as a base for success in the world of videogames. Success geared towards ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Turbine Talks Lord of the Rings Future |  | Recently, Turbine has executed a move many in the MMO industry thought could not be done. They extended their agreement with the Tolkien Enterprises regarding the use of the intellectual properties related to Middle Earth. The extension was not only of a temporal natur ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Everquest Is Nine Years Old |  | Everquest might not be the best MMO out there. It may not be the prettiest or the most subscribed to MMO in the bunch, but there's one sure thing: Everquest is one of the longest running MMO that's still active. And it was, between 1999 and 2004, the most beloved and most played on-lin ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Midnight Squad Hits City of Heroes |  | It's been a busy late 2007 for City of Heroes/City of Villains. On November 6th, NCsoft, the original publishers of the game, bought the intellectual property rights from developers Cryptic and then created a new NCsoft studio, called NorCal, with a cl ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA MMO a Real Possibility |  | If there's anything the gaming world needs right now is more GTA. I don't usually praise sequels, as they have a tendency to offer more of the same and take a gamers money without offering much value, but there are sequels and sequels. There are a few franchises out the ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tabula Rasa Not a Bust |  | Starr Long, who is producer of the science fiction MMO Tabula Rasa, has released a statement responding to recent speculation about the game's performance on the NCsoft website. Long said: "the game has not taken off as quickly as we had hoped," alt ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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