You know how you’ll be playing World of Warcraft or Halo: Reach or Call of Duty: Black Ops with a bunch of friends and somehow you execute a decoy-flank-covering fire strategy that’s so brilliant it completely overwhelms your opponents? Well, the Navy wants to harness that same kind of emergent thinking in an MMO designed [...]
Many gamers already now that the most recent Fallout games are just the latest titles in a heritage that goes back more than a decade to 1997′s Fallout. What some may not know is that Bethesda acquired the right to make Fallout games when original publisher Interplay fell on financial hardship. While that deal’s resulted [...]
Last night, consumer electronics giant Panasonic unveiled the Jungle, a QWERTY-enabled device dedicated to MMO playing on the go. Specifics on the data connection, screen resolution and pricing aren’t yet available. On the device’s official site, Panasonic’s being coy about specs and functionality:
BioWare’s slowly, steadily making the year-long wait for The Old Republic MMO more and more unbearable. Today, they’ve detailed what all the leveling up will get you if you play as a Jedi. The two new advanced classes seem to offer skills that will entice players who want to play as part of a group [...]
The next year’s going to be a very good one for gamers who are Star Wars fanatics. LucasArts–the game development division of the Star Wars empire–has a handful of major releases brewing, including the long-awaited Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The Old Republic‘s being developed in conjunction with Bioware, who know a thing or [...]
Students in two of Lee Sheldon’s game design classes at Indiana University are graded using a system of experience points similar to systems used in games like World of Warcraft.
Star Trek Online officially came out on Tuesday and, if the one million player accounts created for the MMO game are any indication, it’s resonating very favorably with the Trek fanbase. I spoke with Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich about STO‘s first few days, its development, future plans, weird stuff he’s seen, and where he thinks [...]
Some day you’ll be able to play DC Universe Online on the PC and PlayStation 3. This, along with a few other scraps of random screenshots and information, is all anyone knows about the massively multiplayer online game. Video footage of actual gameplay is scarcer than gold Kryptonite. The trickle of information reached new levels [...]
Massively multiplayer online games these days are a dime a dozen, but the new game from Alpharetta, Georgia-based Hi-Rez Studios is trying to mix up the genres at least. According to Hi-Rez, Global Agenda is a blend of sci-fi and secret agent, which the developers are dubbing “spy-fi.”
Today I went back Home. To PlayStation Home, that is.
Two things that are hot right now: vampires and Facebook games. So it was only a matter of time before some company took advantage of these trends. That’s where City of Eternals comes in (try it now).
