BioWare announces four new playable species for Star Wars: The Old Republic
Four non-human species have joined the list of playable types in Star Wars: The Old Republic, BioWare announced on the game's official website Friday.
View ArticleSony Online Entertainment announces Everquest Next
World of Warcraft has long taken the place of Sony Online Entertainment’s genre-defining MMORPG franchise, Everquest, in the hearts and minds of gamers… but SOE is looking to change all that soon. At…
View ArticleThe Bible makes its MMO debut in September
The Bible is about to get a lot more interesting. German developer FiAA is set to release The Bible Online, a browser-based massively-multiplayer RPG, on September 6. Allowing players to re-enact parts...
View ArticleBlizzard shooting for an early November release of WoW: Cataclysm?
Here is a juicy tidbit for all the WoW fans out there: MMO-Champion is reporting that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is being targeted for a November 2nd release date. That would mean there…
View ArticleWoW: Cataclysm gets another rumored release date, December 7
Last we heard someone was pretty sure that World of Warcraft‘s lastest expansion, Cataclysm, had a target launch date of November 2nd. It seemed credible enough as rumors go and timed shortly after…
View ArticleNew Kinect hack lets you play World of Warcraft with gestures
We’ve seen tons of Kinect hacks over the last couple of months, but something tells me this is the one that millions of slavering MMORPG players were waiting for: a Kinect hack that…
View ArticleWorld of Warcraft enables IPv6 with latest patch
While it appears often enough in headlines, the move to IPv6 has had limited visibility for consumers. Some knows it’s coming though most don’t, and the people that do tend to know simply…
View ArticleAge of Conan to relaunch as a free-to-play MMO
Remember Age of Conan, the so-called “grown-up MMORPG?” It was the first in a long line of MMOs that marketed themselves specifically towards more mature players who wanted an alternative to the...
View ArticleLulzSec brings down League of Legends
It’s probably a complete coincidence that LulzSec targeted a game whose name abbreviates to LoL, but that doesn’t stop the fact that players have complained all day about being unable to log in…
View ArticleFive great free, browser-based games like Club Penguin
If you can’t get enough of Club Penguin, you’re not alone. Disney’s web-based MMO is huge, with over 12 million registered user accounts. Still, one game can’t hold anyone’s attention for very long…
View ArticleStar Trek Online going free-to-play in January
Star Trek Online is the latest in a string of MMOs to convert its business model to free-to-play. Developer Cryptic Studios will flip the switch on January 17, 2012, the studio announced yesterday. Like…
View ArticleStar Wars: The Old Republic pre-launch – First impressions
Having pre-ordered Star Wars: The Old Republic over the summer, I was excited when I received my invitation to play on the first day of pre-launch. Being a lifelong Star Wars fan, and an avid…
View ArticleSWTOR’s glaring weakness: Space combat
Ever since I had the pleasure of playing the original Star Wars: X-Wing back in 1993, I have found myself longing to once again take the controls of the now legendary space vehicle…
View ArticleMan steals MMO source code, blackmails original creators with clone
In what seems like the actions of those obnoxious players we all come across when playing online games, 24-year-old Dutch national Anil Kheda allegedly stole the source code of text-based MMO Outwar,...
View ArticleFive great games like World of Warcraft
The term “WoW clone” gets thrown around a lot when it comes to MMO games. Much in the way that every game with a first person view of a huge gun is not…
View ArticlePreview: Marvel Heroes free-to-play MMO for PC
Superhero video games are nothing new, but they are almost all fundamentally flawed in some way. It seems you either play a faceless hero with generic powers filtered from comic books, or you…
View ArticleLazy Twitter MMO steals artwork from deviantART, World of Warcraft
Self-proclaimed “lazy Twitter RPG” Tweeria not only requires very little active effort to play, but seems to have taken little effort to illustrate. The game steals original artwork not only from...
View ArticleChina gets a League of Legends-themed restaurant
If Wheaties is the Breakfast of Champions, then what is dinner at the League of Legends restaurant? It’s a meal fit for kings at an establishment that begs the phrase “only in China”…
View ArticleNever fear: Elder Scrolls Online will support first-person combat
For the longest time, a common notion regarding the Elder Scrolls series is that it was a single player MMO. It had all the makings of an MMO — exploration, character customization, a big…
View ArticleSword Art Online: The Beginning will use your real 3D scanned body in-game
Sword Art Online is a popular anime and light novel series with a premise about virtual reality gaming within an MMORPG. Though there have been several SAO games released, they were all standard...
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