Friday, November 22, 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.

Dragon’s Prophet First Impressions

Dragon’s Prophet is the newest offering from Sony Online Entertainment and is currently in closed-beta until May 30th when it will go into open beta (and a soft launch.) Developed by...

Marvel Heroes Online First Impressions

Marvel Heroes is a free-to-play MMORPG based around the Marvel comic-book franchise and developed by Gazillion Entertainment and Secret Identity Studios. The game runs atop the Unreal Engine 3 and the...

Virtual Item Spotlight: Star Trek Online – Romulan Dreadnought Warbird

The dreaded Dreadnaught Romulan Warbird has been added to the Cryptic store in Star Trek Online MMO universe—selling for 2500 ZEN ($25) or a 3-pack for 5000 ZEN ($50). The ship...

TERA Online First Impressions

The Exiled Realm of Arborea (TERA) Online is the next hot MMORPG and it launches today, developed by Bluehole Studio and published in the US by En Masse Entertainment. As a...

EVE Online and the Microtransaction War

As EVE Online is a pay-to-play game, it’s unlikely that I would cover it being that we lean towards the free-to-play market. However, EVE has some interesting elements that align it...

EverQuest II Review

Set 500 years after EverQuest, EverQuest II is a new and different game experience in a world marred by a series of massive cataclysms. Players enter this world by creating their...

Return to Cradle: Revisiting Spiral Knights

Spiral Knights, a free-to-play MMORPG by Three Rings Design, has been with us over a month now since its release date on April 4th. When the Knights first landed on...

Torchlight II First Impressions

We’re in the middle of 2012, the Year of Nostalgic Solo Games becoming MMOs—Torchlight II arrives on the scene right after Diablo III, which did exactly the same thing. In fact,...

Neverwinter Review

In true free-to-play fashion, Perfect World Entertainment’s Neverwinter has been with us in open beta for almost two months but just recently launched into full blown availability. As a result, it’s...

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