Thursday, November 21, 2024

MMOs

MMOs are not quite what they used to be. For some time, nearly all MMOs were MMORPGs, but that has changed profoundly in the past 10 to 15 years. MMO stands for Massively Multiplayer Online games.

A Mystical Land First Impressions

Imagine that you’ve been wandering the World Wide Web for hours and you stumble upon a Renaissance Festival in your browser. Knights in shining armor, gleeful and gamboling flute music with...

Picaroon First Impressions

Have you ever had the tedious experience of playing Farmville? It’s an extremely popular social farming simulation—no, it’s not like Harvest Moon, if only it were it might be a bit...

Realm of the Titans First Impressions

The alpha test of the newest massively multiplayer arena game published by Aeria Games & Entertainment, Inc. has powered down again and we’ve got some play time to check it...

Black Prophecy First Impressions

In the beginning there was Privateer and it was good; then came Descent, I, II, and III and Freespace, Tachyon: The Fringe, and the Independence War series; and then there...

Wakfu First Impressions

The niche for MMORPGs that use makeshift turn-based tactical combat is currently quite thin and that gameplay style happens to be the hallmark of Square Enix’s upcoming MMO Wakfu. It presents...

Pockie Ninja First Impressions

Fans of animé have a new stopping point on the web if they’d like to live vicariously through their favorite characters from Bleach and Naruto with the newly minted browser-based free-to-play...

Spiral Knights First Impressions

I recently got into the preview closed beta for Spiral Knights and the first thing I noticed was how it’s reminiscent of Castle Crashers for the Xbox—or at least the...

NEStalgia Review

Some people still yearn for the days of yore when it only took a TV, an RCA cable, and a 1st gen Nintendo to get off the ground. Dragon Warrior...

Faxion Online First Impressions

Choirs of angels are singing and bands of demons are marching in Faxion Online, UTV True Games’s first internally-developed MMORPG for the PC—and they’re both carrying very stout weapons as...

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