Beta Data: July 18, 2014 . Welcome to the new and improved beta list on MMOGames! We’re working on improving the list to include more information you might want to know. If there is anything more you’d like to see on the list leave a comment below. New this week is Formicide, a game where you play an ant w
The Tyrian Chronicle: Mordremoth's Entanglement . This entry in The Tyrian Chronicle is going to be a bit different. Instead of a standard written column like the past two weeks, we have instead prepared a video featuring Entanglement. This column will now alternate each week from being a video edition that plays through and analyzes the mo
The Nexus Times: Housing in Wildstar . While slowly working towards my raid attunement this week, I decided to mess around with the massive cosmetic instance known as “housing.” Wildstar has probably the most extensive options for personal housing ever created in an MMORPG, and even beats out guild customization in many other gam
WoW Wednesday: Influential WoW is Influential . The World of Warcraft has been around for more than a decade, and even now it continues to exert its influence on the MMO industry, not for a single moment being as irrelevant as the last random F2P title you played for five minutes. Whether you like it or not, WoW is still going strong desp
Enhancing Titanfall with Monsters . Monsters and especially big monsters have always intrigued me and millions out there. When a game like Titanfall crashes down from the sky right into our hearts, with its faced pace moving, bringing us back to great games such as Unreal Tournament and Quake, and of course with its huge mech
Beta Data: July 25, 2014 . It has been a bit of a slow week for news in the MMO genre, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything new to report. Velvet Sundown and Crusaders of Solaria both made the leap to open beta. Steel Avengers, which managed to fly under the radar until now has announced they ar
Evolution of Crafting in MMOs . Most modern video games focus on a journey with an inevitable end. In Dragon Quest, once you beat the final challenge you’re done. The game is finished simply because there is nothing left to do. Eventually, developers starting throwing in techniques that improve a game “Replayability”, a t
The Tyrian Chronicle: Dynamic Events . It’s time for another edition of our weekly Guild Wars 2 column: The Tyrian Chronicle. Since last week was focused on the Entanglement episode of the Living Story, this week will focus on a specific aspect of the game. Specifically, this week will focus on the dynamic event system in Guild W
Fan Made: Guild Wars 2 Everybody Wants to Rule the World .
An amazing new fan made video tribute to the Guild Wars 2 living story has popped up on Youtube. The video is a tribute to Scarlet Briar and all the terrible events that took place because of her. This hauntingly beautiful video is something that everyone should watch, even if they arenR
Dota 2's Impact on eSports . We all knew one year ago how popular Dota 2 was going to be. When the game came out of beta on July 9, 2013, it had 3 million unique players. It has now surpassed upwards of 9 million. To put that in perspective, World of Warcraft, the “King of MMOs” currently only has 7.8 million as of May
The Nexus Times: Wildstar Dungeon Ramp Up . So here we are, the last major set of instances before the real raids begin. Dungeons in Wildstar are absolutely no joke; don’t even think about queuing for them as a fresh level 50 or if your equipment still contains any greens. While it might be possible to squeak through a few silver vete
Top MMOs of 2014...So Far . We’re half way through 2014 already, can you believe it?! We decided to stop and take a look back at how the year has gone so far for the MMO industry. 2013 was a bit of a slow one so it was really important that 2014 be bigger and better. Developers haven’t let us down. We’ve already had am
Swordsman Online and Arc Interview with Mark Hill and Gabe Heiland . Swordsman Online is the newest Wuxia inspired MMORPG from our friends over at Perfect World Entertainment. Earlier this week we had an opportunity to sit down with Mark Hill and Gabrielle Heiland to ask a few questions about Swordsman Online and their new games launcher “Arc”
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WildStar: Newbie Tips .
WildStar is the new big thing, but very experienced MMO players may find themselves a bit thrown, expecting the traditional standards and conventions and finding something… different. And inexperienced gamers are getting overwhelmed by a massive science-fantasy setting with bright colors, s
WoW Wednesdays: First Time Entering the Twilight of Pandaria . It’s always difficult to find a game that hits you in the right place. It’s even more difficult if you’re aching to play one that’s been out for quite some time. You tend to think about all the things you have to do and the things you have to know, learning every new bit of information on wh
Farewell, Wizardry Online . I had first heard of Wizardry Online from a friend who had loathed the subscription model. He suggested that we try Wizardry once it became available to us and I was drawn in by how fantastic the trailers of both the Japanese version and the then-upcoming US version were. Who could not stand
The Vast, Wonderful World of MMO Underwear . MMORPG’s are known for one thing: Substance.
Since so many MMORPG’s rely on the subscription model (or at least, are designed with subscriptions in mind), it’s a developers job to keep players entertained for months upon months on end, keeping their game updated with new things to do so pl
Astro Lords: Oort Cloud Interview . Looking to know more about pillaging asteroid bases, battling in the cosmos, and being an all-out space pirate? We’ve got you covered. We got the opportunity to interview some of the people behind Astro Lords: Oort Cloud, a new MMORTS for PC, Mac, and soon, on mobile devices. Nicolas W
Fan Made: Blaugust . All throughout August MMO bloggers are joining forces for a new blogging initiative called Blaugust. You don’t have to blog about gaming but the majority of the bloggers taking part are part of the MMO blogger crowd.
What are they doing? Every day in August they’re blogging! Why? To get peop
Massive Thought: Using MMOs for Education . The idea that the learning process needs some sort of play in it have been alive since the old Greeks where sports and other more playful activates where added to the more strict read processes. And all great scholars such as Plato and Socrates argued for learning by playing is a big part if
