5 Memorable Moments in MMO History . An MMOs place in history is largely defined not by the day-to-day grind, but by its memorable events. Be it the emergence of a particularly brutal boss, a player-driven community foray, or the creative exploitation of a feature that fails to work as intended, MMOs thrive when players feel th
Why Aren't There More MMORTS Games? . To understand why there aren’t many MMORTS games today, we have to take a look at the genre’s long history. The Real Time Strategy genre has been around ever since graphical interfaces were developed for computers. It seemed nearly every company in the 80’s and 90’s had at least one real-tim
Tanki Online: Press Event Highlights . Hi everybody, MMOGames was invited to attend a press meeting with the people behind the browser arcade style tank game, Tanki Online. Originated from Perm, Russia, Tanki Online is a free to play browser based game that has launched in 2009, and has since then been slowly taking over the worl
Planetside 2: In the Limelight...Wrel . BLUF (bottom line up front): Wrel is a YouTube personality who makes tutorial/commentary videos that contributes to the gaming industry as a whole, particularly Planetside 2. YouTube channel. Twitter.
To the Planetside 2 (PS2) community, Wrel needs no real introduction. He makes some prett
Final Fantasy XIV: Big News Drop!!! . Between April 26th and April 27th, Final Fantasy XIV director Yoshida attended the Niconico event in Japan (Niconico is a Japanese video streaming site, I think), where he spilled some juicy beans about what’s up and coming in the world of Ezorea. There are definitely things to be excited fo
Skyforge Q&A Part One . Hello ladies and gentlemen, MMOGames is working together with MMOCulture to bring you the latest updated content there is out there regarding MMOs! Today, we’re going to take a look at the upcoming MMORPG called Skyforge. The game has been recently announced, and there are over 300 peo
Skyforge Q&A Part Two . Hello ladies and gentlemen, MMOGames is working together with MMOCulture to bring you the latest updated content there is out there regarding MMOs! In this second part of the Q&A, we’re going to take a look at some game features that are going to be implemented in to the upcoming M
Black Watchmen: Darker Days . Some ideas have their time. Futurists sit and predict what ideas will make the leap from fiction to fact. Turning something from one to the other requires passion, drive and focus.
Human Equations Andrea Doyon comes brimming with all three. You cannot mistake the passion in his voice when ta
Skyforge Q&A Part Three . Hello ladies and gentlemen, MMOGames is working together with MMOCulture to bring you the latest updated content there is out there regarding MMOs! In this third part of the Q&A, we’re going to take a look at the weapons, armor and playstyles for the upcoming MMORPG called Skyforge. The
The ArcheAge Is Nigh . ArcheAge, the MMORPG with a highly anticipated NA and EU release slated for 2014 was developed by Korean developer Jake Song and his company, XL Games. Released in Korea last January 15, 2013 – the Western world has been waiting patiently for their turn to experience this beautiful MMO
What Youtube Buying Twitch Means for You . It was revealed around May 18th that Youtube (and, by extension, Google) was going to buy Twitch, the #1 E-sports streaming service, for one billion dollars in straight-up cash.
They’re probably happy about that.
Predictably, the internet wailed. And the wailing’s not unwarranted, I’
Top 5 Action MMORPGs of 2014 . Searching for a new MMORPG to play can be tough, competition in the online game space has become fierce and developers are releasing new MMOs left and right. Each game promises an experience unlike any other, but quite often it can be difficult to sort the junk from the gems. That’s wh
Is H1Z1 too much like DayZ and is that an issue? . H1Z1, Sony Online Entertainment’s newest MMORPG, is getting onboard the hype train and is successfully riding itself through gamers brains getting them all excited for the upcoming paid Alpha test. Whilst lots of small tidbits are flowing out of SoE like a small burst drain pipe, the questio
Versus: Free-to-play versus Subscription based MMOs . When MapleStory was introduced as one of the first free-to-play MMOs in 2002, it was hailed by gamers as a revolution of the persistent world genre. Since, hundreds of MMOs, including the widely popular Guild Wars 2 and the recently restructured Star Wars: The Old Republic have forgone the a
The Dangers of the Console MMORPG . A few quick Google searches was all that it took to tell me this was something of a decisive issue among gamers.
Even among professionals (especially among professionals, I should hope, descent among peers is healthy for any form of opinion-based journalism) the very concept of the console M
Warlords of Draenor: Can it revitalize World of Warcraft? . This coming Fall season is going to be a busy and exciting time for both Blizzard and the many players who still inhabit the developer’s venerable MMO World of Warcraft. November will mark the game’s ten-year anniversary and in addition to all of the ten-year milestone celebrations, Blizzard
Beta Data: May 30, 2014 . After taking a couple of weeks off we are back with an update look at all the current betas taking place. Because it has been so long this update to the list is a bit of an unusual one. With more than 20 different things to pick from! We’re also saying goodbye to Wildstar today as it h
Master Dawngate: Adopt Your Style . Whether you’re a MOBA veteran or just breaking into the genre, it’s important to become familiar with all the little nuances different games have to offer. Since Dawngate is quite different from others in the genre, such as League of Legends or DOTA, even players with a lot of ex
Planetside 2: In the Limelight...Garlock . BLUF (bottom line up front): Garlock is a Planetside 2 player, who plays with the 666th Devil Dogs, a 1,600+ player New Conglomerate outfit on the Connery server that specializes in combined armed on a large-scale and continent capping. He is one of the outfit’s most experienced Force
Shards Online: First Look . Shards Online is an upcoming moddable sandbox RPG currently under development by Citadel Studios. The team is built up with people who have worked on titles such as the Elder Scrolls series, Dark age of Camelot, and Warhammer Online. Recently, I had the chance to join an exclusive online eve
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