DC Universe Online: Halls of Power II Developer Preview . The DC Universe (Online) is about to get bigger for non-members, with new heroes, new villains, and new zones to explore. Halls of Power II is serving up content like you’ve never seen before, with Mr. Miracle defecting to the side of the heroes, and Granny Goodness making her debut in the f
Crowfall: Hardcore PvP for Casual Carebears? . I’m going to be upfront: my best PvP days are behind me. Gone are the times I can stay up all night defending a castle, or camping an enemy’s base in retaliation for their midnight assaults. My player killer (PK) buddies that I took over towns with are now tackling diapers and wr
Beta Data: May 15, 2015 . Something magical happened this past week. Dinosaurs. ARK: Survival Evolved, to be precise. A dinosaur survival game which will let you tame, ride, and kill dinosaurs on a huge dinosaur-occupied island. It will be heading to Steam Early Access next month with an aimed launch of June 2016. A
Listed: 5 Things Final Fantasy XI Got Right . This March, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XI would be receiving the first of three updates intended to wind up the story of Vana’diel and bring closure to the 13 year old game. While XI will continue on for as long as it remains financially viable, I couldn’t help but
Bel's Blog Bonanza - More Newbie Blogger Initiative . Hey folks and welcome to Bel’s Blog Bonanza, a bi-weekly feature here on MMOGames where I attempt to highlight some of the more interesting topics currently cycling through the gaming blogosphere. One of my favorite aspects of writing about games, is the interactions I have with other blogge
The Final Frontier: Let's All Become Space Truckers . EVE Online is full of opportunities. It rewards players who actively seek out new ways of doing things, looking to build businesses in the cracks between established practices of New Eden. Traders capitalize on consumers’ laziness by buying items in outlying systems and selling them at
MOBA Monday: Top Paying MOBAs . While most people play video games for the experience, there’s nothing wrong with trying to make a little money and still have some fun. Currently, one of the most profitable genres for gamers is the MOBA due to the sheer amount of high-paying tournaments. This makes sense with the large pla
TERA Speed Leveling Guide: General Tips and Level 1 - 30 . TERA is infamous for its horrendously repetitive questing system that can take weeks for casual/newbie players so long to get through. While I highly encourage newbies to experience the game for how it was meant to be played (leveling-wise), most folks would rather get to endgame as soon as
Eorzean Evening Post: Final Fantasy XIV Gives Hand Up, Not Hand Out . Over the last year I have come to love my adopted home of Eorzea. In that time I have managed to experience several different facets of the game, but as a seasoned MMO player you cannot help but compare and contrast it with other gaming experiences. My MMO career started like many people wit
WoW Wednesday: Play to Win not Pay to Win .
I hate to break it to you… ^^
The recent upgrade to the 6.2 Patch notes on the 13th of this month has thrown up a rather interesting change to current gaming conditions which has subsequently put a few Warcraft players’ noses out of joint. Items that were previously only a
Listed: 5 Reasons You Need to Play Final Fantasy XIV . Last week on Listed we poured one out in memory of Final Fantasy XI after the first of three content patches released that would wind the game’s decade long story to a close. Fortunately, that great legacy is carried on, if only in spirit, by XI‘s successor, Final Fantasy XIV: A
Versus: EVE Online vs Vendetta Online . Despite MMORPGs being one of the most saturated genres on the market there have been relatively few set in space. The ones players currently have access to are relatively old but seem to have weathered the test of time. Two of the most popular space MMORPGs still around are EVE Online and Ve
Beta Data: May 22, 2015 . This has been a pretty big week for Beta news, folk, so we’ll just jump right in with the big guns. Blade & Soul, the game that almost everybody thought was never going to see the light of day here in the West, was finally announced by NCSoft to be coming West! The game will be entering
Bel's Blog Bonanza - Ragefire, Nostalgia and Anticipation . Hey folks and welcome to Bel’s Blog Bonanza, a bi-weekly feature here on MMOGames where I attempt to highlight some of the more interesting topics currently cycling through the gaming blogosphere. One of my favorite aspects of writing about games, is the interactions I have with other blogge
MOBA Monday: Have We Reached Market Saturation? . Now I love a good MOBA just as much, or probably more, than the next person, but there are times when a market can become too saturated with a specific genre of game. Currently, it seems like every major publisher wants to get their hands on a MOBA and for good reason. In terms of sheer deve
The Final Frontier: A Guide to Margin Trading for Newbies (Part 1) . One of my favorite things about EVE Online is that just about everything you use in the game, the ships you fly, the ammo you shoot, the modules you fit were all crafted and sold by other players. It’s a universe built upon supply and demand, and without the hardworking industrialists
WoW Wednesday : Communication Breakdown . So, you’re saying there’s a chance?
This last weekend played out in the Warcraft Community in a manner roughly akin to a Whitehall Farce. Some may genuinely have lost their trousers along the way, but the overriding result of the three day Memorial Holiday for the US was an under
Eorzean Evening Post: Delving Into New Job Abilities . Over the last week we have had quite a bit of exciting news released about the upcoming Heavensward expansion. From this information we can begin to glean what Square Enix is intending for the approach of any new content they build. Initially in looking at the information that was released d
Was Destiny a Failure? . A large section of the gaming community and press considered Destiny a failure when it launched. They hounded it for its poor story, bland worlds, weak voice acting and that bloody Cryptarch. Yet still, a few weeks into its launch the strangest thing happened: people were still playing, and
Listed: 4 Things MMOs Could Learn From EVE Online . I am nothing if not an evangelist for EVE Online. I write about it more than any human ever should, and I love it. When you begin to peel back all the layers, the spreadsheets, the hasty calculations scribbled on notepads next to your keyboard, and the hours spent theorycrafting spaceships o
Plants vs. Zombies 2: Survive in Level 31 of The Lost City
Moonrise vs Pokemon: Monster Collection Comparison .
Beta Data: June 13, 2014 .
Hearthstone: Unlocking the Arena Game ModeListed: 4 Things MMOs Could Learn From EVE Online .
