WoW Wednesday: Cross-Realms And Dead Communities . MMOs have always had problems with balancing populations since the beginning of their conception. Faction balances and server population issues plagued the industry and has always been a hot topic by both the very prominent and those less so. World of Warcraft was no exception to this and Bl
WildStar: Guide to the Path System .
WildStar is an experiment in MMO gaming that seeks to play certain elements completely straight and abandon or reinvent others. Possibly the most important aspect of innovation that Carbine came up with is the unique Path system that drives the gameplay, a system we need to explore in depth
Beta Data: July 4, 2014 . ArcheAge will be heading for closed beta this month, along with Auto Club Revolution 2.0 and Star Conflict. Warlords of Draenor went into closed beta last Friday, just after Beta Data went live. Crusaders of Solaria has started Alpha testing. Several games including the Transformers MOBA wen
The Tyrian Chronicle: Opening the Gates of Maguuma . Welcome to the latest weekly game-focused column here at MMOGames – The Tyrian Chronicle. Each and every week I will use this column as a means to talk about Guild Wars 2 in all facets. From the latest Living Story content and new patches, all the way down to specific features that sho
MMOs in Science: MMOs Can be Used for Science . There are currently 400 million people in the world playing a MMOG, according to Infographic in 2012. This means that there are more people playing a MMOG than there are people living the United States of America. Cool you might think, but does it really matter? The easy answer to this would
Current State of the Market: MOBA Over-Saturation . League of Legends has become the new World of Warcraft. Not WoW in the sense that they’re the same game in the same genre, but rather WoW in the sense that its crazy popularity is causing a whole host of developers to attempt to make clones and copies of it. I’m sure we all remember a time,
PlanetInsider: In the Limelight...ShockFC . BLUF (bottom line up front): ShockFC is a hardcore player who leads the elite Future Crew multi-gaming outfit. They are considered as one of the top outfits in Planetside 2. Follow Shock on Twitch and watch him wreck havoc.
The famous, and infamous, Future Crew [FCRW] gaming clan is led by
5 Great Ways to Celebrate Video Games Day . Video Games have come a long way since their humble beginnings back in the 1970’s. From black-and-white to color, 2D to high-res 3D, and from single player to massively multiplayer, video games have driven technology forward and become one of the biggest industries on the market in the
The Nexus Times: Ultra Strain Brain Drain . The first major content patch for Wildstar arrived on July 1st and it couldn’t have happened at a better time. It’s pretty unprecedented for a developer to already be pumping out major content only a month after launch, but it’s clear that Carbine has learned that when a game isn’t expanding
WoW Wednesday: Arthas Is Dead!? . Whether you like it or not, Warcraft’s selection of characters and personalities have always garnered the love and admiration of those who willingly exposed themselves to the series. The last part of the last sentence means just that; a lot of people could care less about World of Warc
Five Animes That Should Be Made Into MMO Games . This article is mainly made for all the readers out there watching anime or reading manga, even if you don’t have any interest whatsoever in Asian animated stories but have a passion for MMO games in general or only a specific MMO game that is “your” game. Stay and read on, for even if the f
The Tyrian Chronicle: Building Better Guilds . Welcome back for another issue of MMOGames’ weekly Guild Wars column, The Tyrian Chronicle. Last week, in the first issue, we discussed the release of the Living Story’s second Season of content and the Gates of Maguuma episode. A lot happened for the Living Story, including the release of a
Beta Data: July 11, 2014 . This has been a great week for next week. Hazard Ops, Stronghold Crusader, Destiny, and ArcheAge will all be going into a new beta phase next week. This week Shadowbound went into Open Alpha and Archlord 2 went into Open Beta. This was a bad week for Kickstarters, no new MMOs were posted (on
Adeptus Auctores: Pre Alpha Twitching . Greetings Crusaders and welcome again to the Adeptus Auctores.
This week we were treated to the first in what is to be a weekly series of Twitch streams. Mark your calendar, clear out Friday afternoons at 1.30pm Eastern/6.30pm GMT and set your sights on 40kCrusade.
The stream, should you not
Will we ever see a true Pokemon MMOG? . This article goes out to all you readers out there who have played at least one Pokémon game in your life, and especially those out there who dreamt about the world being real or at least thought of how that single-player experience could be translated to an online game. If you never underst
The Nexus Times: Wildstar Endgame Frustration . The Endgame is the end all be all of a gaming experience. It’s the culmination of every player’s hard work and can either lead to sheer enjoyment or utter frustration. This is also what generally defines how good a game is and how long its player population will stick around. If the endgame
WoW Wednesday: Do You Even Care About Levels? . With the impending level cap increase in Warlords of Draenor, everybody is excited to get started on their journey to level 100. New skills, new gear tiers, and loads of other content are soon to be had by every WoW player that is eagerly awaiting the expansion to drop. Despite how excited w
MMOs in Science: Virtual Worlds as Modern Utopias? . Utopia is a concept we all heard at some point during our lives, and often we associate it to something better, perhaps what the perfect society could be. However, it is more than just a fantasy of happiness, it is a dream which mankind have had since long before civilization but Platon’s ma
Life is Feudal: Interview With Vladimir Bobik Piskunov . Hello ladies and gentlemen, today we will be taking a look at an upcoming hardcore sandbox MMORPG called Life is Feudal, and we will present you with an interview with one of the game’s Lead Game Designer / Project Leader, Vladimur “Bobik” Piskunov.
First off, what is Life is Feudal?
“Life
Skara: The Blade Remains Interview . We got the opportunity to interview some of the guys behind Skara: The Blade Remains, an upcoming Multiplayer Online Versus (MOV) game that features over-the-top combat and a series of brutal finishers. We’re very excited for this game, and hopefully you’ll share our sentiments b
