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Marvel Heroes: Latest Update Deployed & Mac Beta Coming Soon

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 05:08 PM PST

Latest Update Deployed & Mac Beta Coming Soon

Gazillion Entertainment has a pair of news items of interest to players of Marvel Heroes Online. First off, the Forge of Asgard is now live across all servers. With the new content, players will be able to take advantage of great customization options for their characters with the Asgardian-themed crafting. Options can include invisibility, giant size, heals and more.

Life is Feudal: Steam Greenlight Campaign Begins

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 01:53 PM PST

Steam Greenlight Campaign Begins

Life Is Feudal is making a bid to be the next sandbox MMO to be Steam "Greenlit" and has started a new campaign to be listed on the game portal's site. According to the first update, Life is Feudal has already garnered over a thousand votes.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen: Dual Wielding DPS Specialist, the Wizard, Detailed

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 01:49 PM PST

Dual Wielding DPS Specialist, the Wizard, Detailed

The Patheon: Rise of the Fallen team is ready to reveal the latest character class in the form of the Wizard, a dual-wielding DPS / Support specialist with a wide range of magic skills.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: ESGN and Blizzard Team Up for Fight Night

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 01:43 PM PST

ESGN and Blizzard Team Up for Fight Night

Blizzard Entertainment is partnering with ESGN to bring live Hearthstone competitive play to viewers around the world. Fight Night can be seen beginning Monday, February 10th and will run for ten episodes.

General: World of the Living Dead: Resurrection Arrives

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:39 PM PST

World of the Living Dead: Resurrection Arrives

A stress test has started for the cross platform zombie game, World of the Living Dead: Resurrection. World of the Living Dead: Resurrection is a hardcore permadeath title that can be played on computers, tablets and mobile browsers.

Elder Scrolls Online: Headed Down the Path to Undaunted

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:03 PM PST

Headed Down the Path to Undaunted

Outside of the factional storylines, The Elder Scrolls Online also encourages you to adventure for a number of Guilds. Find out how Gareth Harmer got on, as he joins the Fighters and Mages guilds and starts on the path to an Undaunted.

Elder Scrolls Online: Diving Deep Into ESO's Crafting

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 11:42 PM PST

Diving Deep Into ESO

Crafting in The Elder Scrolls Online is surprisingly deep and satisfying. As a whole, ESO is a game that will often surprise you whenever you try to play it more like an MMO with an Elder Scrolls skin. The team at Zenimax Online has gone out of its way to make it obvious that ESO is first and foremost an Elder Scrolls game and this extends to the game's crafting system. For the most part, ESO's crafting plays out just like it would in Skyrim or Oblivion.

Elder Scrolls Online: The Comprehensive Good and Bad of ESO

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 11:28 AM PST

The Comprehensive Good and Bad of ESO

Today we're going to have a lot of previews of Elder Scrolls Online. From starting zones to crafting, to fifteen minutes of our own in-game footage. You'll get several different views on the game, but for my part I'm going to list the good and bad of what I've played so far. This was the first time I've really been able to focus on one character and play for over ten hours, and I can say definitively: I'm now getting very excited to play this game for real at launch.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: Signed Collector's Edition and NVIDIA GTX 650 Giveaway!

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:07 AM PST

Signed Collector

In celebration of the recently launched FFXIV NVIDIA bundle, MMORPG.com has partnered with Square Enix and NVIDIA to give away two copies of the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Collector's Edition signed by Naoki Yoshida and two NVIDIA GTX 650 graphics cards.
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Eudemons Online: The Awakening of the Shadow Knights

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Eudemons Online: The Awakening of the Shadow Knights


Knights of the realm have always been the representatives of justice and chivalry. Over time, they have been surrounded by constant death and darkness in defense of the populace, gradually turning to evil and creating a desire for the blood of others
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Exclusive Interview about DarkOrbit Reloaded

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 10:15 AM PST

QUESTION:  First of all, thank you for giving us the possibility to interview you about DarkOrbit Reloaded. Would you be so kind to introduce yourself to our readers? Answer: Hi! My name is Jonathan Lindsay, I'm the executive producer of DarkOrbit: Reloaded. I first worked on the Action MMO genre in 2006 and more recently […]

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Combat Review

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:39 AM PST

We recently got the chance to check out The Elder Scrolls Online (TESO) from Bethesda in a closed beta access where we could play up to level 15 and show you what we’ve got. There’s a lot of videos and articles, and walkthroughs and character creation articles out there, and there’s a lot of content […]

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Exclusive Gameplay Footage & Screenshots

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:17 AM PST

Take a look at the footage we captured in the Closed Beta of The Elder Scrolls Online: a sorcerer in action (video footage) and some screenshots.

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Giveaway: 100 Free Crystals for Panzar

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:10 AM PST

Today, MMOReviews.com is teaming up with gameitems.com and Troxit Servicies Limited, publisher of Panzar, to offer an exclusive giveaway to new players registering for the game through our link. Those who grab a code will receive a pack of 100 free crystals to use in Panzar. In this a free-to-play third person action MMO you will […]

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15 of the Best Free to Play Shooters

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 01:56 PM PST

free to play shooterTeam Fortress 2, Tribes Ascend, Blacklight: Retribution and more!

As successful as online MMOs have been (we covered 16 of the best here), it would be churlish not to mention the genre's equally popular cousin, the shooter. A genre that has been synonymous with video games since the dawn of time – well, since Space Invaders at any rate – the shooter has gone through many incarnations with the latest and greatest evolving into the online free-to-play market. 

With that said, we thought we would take a look at the best the medium has to offer. So here are 15 awesome f2p shooters. 

Note: If you're wondering why we didn't include Planetside 2, it's because we represented it in our best MMOs story.

Do you have a favorite free-to-play shooter that you would like to share? Let us know in the comments!

HP Readies a Chromebox for a Spring Release

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 10:09 AM PST

HP ChromeboxGoogle's army of Chrome OS devices continues to grow

Are mainstream users ready to live primarily in the cloud? With all the Chrome OS devices coming out (along with the ones that are already available), this year will be a good litmus test for the platform. Joining the ranks of those offering a desktop solution is HP, the world's second largest PC maker, which plans to launch a Chromebox in  the spring. HP's Chromebox will initially debut in the U.S., though the OEM is mum on the price.

For now, HP just wants to let the world know it's willing to look beyond Windows, if that's indeed what customers want. The HP Chromebox will come in a variety of color options -- Smoke, Silver, Ocean Turquoise, Snow White, and Twinkle Black -- so that it can blend in with your surroundings. Alternately, you can hide the HP Chromebox out of sight by attaching it to the back of a monitor using standard VESA mounts.

A full spec sheet isn't available, though HP says its Chromebox will sport a Haswell processor inside, noting that "there's also a version of our Chromebox that is Chromebox for meetings with a 4th gen Intel Core i7 processor." We're guessing that means the standard version will rock a Celeron processor.

It will also have HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, Bluetooth, and four USB 3.0 ports. If you'd like to be notified when it becomes available, you can submit your info to HP.

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Get the Screen Wipes Ready, Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox Touch Beta for Windows 8

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:48 AM PST

Firefox TouchA touch-friendly browser for Windows 8/8.1 users

Attention Surface owners and anyone else rocking a touchscreen display with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, there's a version of Firefox you might be interested in. Mozilla today made its "Firefox for Windows 8 Touch" beta available to download, so you can tap and swipe your way through cyberspace the way you do on the Start screen. The browser has a new tile-based Firefox start screen with one-tap access to Top Sites, Bookmarks, and History.

Though the touch aspect is new, you can still use familiar features like the Awesome Bar, Mozilla says. However, it also supports a wealth of touch input and gestures, along with several other key features baked into the latest release. These include Full, Snapped, and Fill views; Visual Navigation (big tiles on the Start screen); and Windows Share integration.

Beyond touch controls and various Windows 8 goodies, the new build also offers volume control for HTML5 audio/video, VP9 video decoding, a finalized (and enabled) gamepad API, and a few other features as described in the release notes.

If you want to give the new browser a spin, you can download it direct from Mozilla. Before you begin testing, Mozilla says to make sure Firefox Beta is your Windows 8 default browser.

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AMD's Radeon R7 250X Slides in Between R7 250 and R7 260X

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:59 AM PST

Asus Radeon R7 250XNew graphics SKU from AMD pops up online

It looks like AMD is fleshing out its graphics card line with a new part. A look around the web reveals several references to an AMD Radeon R7 250X graphics card from a variety of third-party partners, including one from Diamond Multimedia that's available to purchase for around $100 street. Looking at the specs, the Radeon R7 250X slides neatly in between AMD's Radeon R7 250 and R7 260X video cards.

Bear with us as we drop a handful of links, as information about the card is scattered all over the web. We'll start with Videocardz.com, which surmises that the R7 250X sports the same Oland GPU as its non-X counterpart. There are both 1GB and 2GB models, both of which feature a 128-bit bus.

The same site is hosting pictures of two R7 250X graphics cards, one by Sapphire with a dual-slot cooler and single 6-pin power connector, and one by Asus. We checked out Sapphire's website but didn't find any reference to the part.

There's also a reference to the R7 250X on AMD Radeon Italia's Twitter account, which says the card has 640 stream processors, 40 TMUs, and 16 ROPs. The Tweet links over to TechPowerUp's description of the card.

Looking at online retailers, we found an overclocked version (1,050MHz GPU versus 1,000MHz) built by Diamond Multimedia selling for $100 on Amazon, or at least that's the way it's listed (the pictures Amazon is using show the non-X version). It also has a dual-slot cooler, along with DVI-D, HDMI, and VGA outputs, and 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Interestingly enough, this card isn't listed on Diamond Multimedia's own website.

Finally, kudos go out to news and rumor site Fudzilla for bringing this new part to our attention.

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Google, Asus Unveil $1,000 Chromebox for Videoconferencing

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:28 AM PST

Chromebox for MeetingsVideo meetings made easy

Asus and Google are quickly becoming BFFs. As you already know, Asus is the one that builds Google's 7-inch Nexus tablet, and earlier this week, Asus announced plans to release a Chromebox starting at $179 in March. Google has now taken the higher end version -- the one with a Core i7 processor -- and is targeting businesses with a Chromebox bundle that's supposed to make videoconferencing easy.

It's called Chromebox for meetings and it includes an Asus Chromebox, Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) camera with Carl Zeiss lens, microphone/speaker combo, and a RF remote control with a full QWERTY keypad on the back. The package starts at $1,000 and includes the first year's $250 management and support fee.

Google says you can set up your entire room in just minutes and easily manage all meeting rooms from a web-based management console, provided you have a display in your room. To join a meeting, you just click the remote and you're in -- there are no complex dial-in codes, passcodes, or leader PINs to fuss with.

Up to 15 people can participate in the video meeting from other conference rooms, their laptops, tablets, or smartphones, Google says. If a customer doesn't use Chromebox, they can still connect via Gmail or by using traditional video conferencing systems using a new tool from Vidyo. A customer can also opt to join via phone with a conference call number from UberConference.

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Newegg Daily Deals: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Dual FTW w/ ACX Cooler, Intel Core i7 4930K, and More!

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 06:33 AM PST

EVGA GTX 780newegg logo

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