eSports are a fast-growing segment of the online gaming community overall. This year promises to be a big year for eSports with big events being prepared for traditional tournament favorites like Starcraft II and MOBA games such as League of Legends. Read more about this what potentially lies ahead for eSports in 2012 at RTSGuru.com.
Square Enix and Ankama Games are taking advantage of the extra day in February to officially launch Wakfu around the world. Wakfu will officially hit retail release on February 29th, Leap Year Day.
Wurm Online is a game that hearkens back to the "good old days of MMOs" so much so, in fact, that players are clawed, mauled and otherwise brutalized. Success is success however and hard fought brings pride. But is Wurm Online FUN? Find out in our official review!
In our latest Chronicles of One Telaran, we take a forward look ahead at the impending Rift v1.7 "Carnival of the Ascended" update. Included in the pithy commentary are descriptions of weddings and the Planes of DOOM! Check it out!
When I was in junior high school (centuries ago), I always found the metalhead clique at my school intimidating. Rangy boys with long, oily hair and a collective uniform consisting of boots, black-washed jeans, and black T-shirts imprinted with art from album covers by bands whose names bore gratuitous double consonants and lent themselves to harsh, angular logo designs, the metalheads always hung out together at the side of gym class, discussing their heroes' latest wailing guitar concoctions and glowering at the rest of the world. They sported the shifty desperation unique to 14-year-olds jonesing for a drag on a stolen cigarette.
It was all kind of alarming for us clean-cut students whose main ambition for gym class was to avoid notice by the jocks and dropouts while hanging out on the sidelines discussing the latest Zelda strategies with each other (dude, if you just keep going up when you get to that one spot in the mountains, there's a dungeon there!). In hindsight, though, I realize that the metalhead kids were harmless. They never picked on anyone; they never caused trouble outside of skipping class to hang out and listen to noisy music. They were as geeky as the video-game-fixated A-students; the only difference between us was that their obsessions were wrapped up in an affected antisocial style. Their music may have been about volume and screaming and satanic posturing, but it was just that: Posturing. Underneath it all, those guys just wanted to do their own thing, and they wore their ragged Dokken shirts with pride because they sincerely thought that airbrushed zombie warriors chained to naked, guitar-wielding sex slaves was, like, so awesome.
PlayStation Vita's 3G model may not be for everyone, but thanks to a limited-time bundle Sony announced today it may have just become the best available option for those purchasing the system at launch.
Vita comes in two flavors: Wi-Fi-only and 3G. Priced at $250 and $300 respectively, there isn't much sense in paying an extra $50 for the 3G system unless you have some intention of also paying for 3G service at some point in time. The one exception to this before now was the First Edition bundle which includes the 3G system, some extra goodies, and most importantly, a week's head start for $350.
Sometimes...we get bored. And, you know, fun-loving developers happen to be in our office. And, well...things happen.
When Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono stopped by to demo Street Fighter X Tekken last week, we handed him a piece of paper with lines from the Street Fighter movie on it, crossed our fingers, turned a camera on, and hoped for the best. You can see the result above.
The digital and online spaces are two areas where Nintendo hasn't been the most forward-thinking. But after a year where the company struggled to meet expectations, despite an uptick in 3DS sales in 2011's final months, it now seems more serious than ever about providing a more robust online experience.
President Satoru Iwata conducted a briefing for investors regarding its Q3 performance in Japan on Friday. For the third quarter in a row, the company was forced to lower its guidance to reflect lower-than-expected sales of Nintendo hardware and software. Noting the initial poor sales of 3DS after its launch, the ensuing price drop, and a lack of big games released in the first half of the fiscal year (April through September), Iwata said, "Our business performance will be the worst since we went into business in the video game industry." This was expected after Nintendo announced in October that it anticipated suffering its first annual loss in 30 years.
Final Fantasy IV has become so ubiquitous, so overly repackaged, so frequently and redundantlyremade, that it can be difficult for one to put the game in its proper perspective and remember exactly how big a deal it was 20 years ago. The fourth chapter in the Final Fantasy series was a significant departure from its predecessors -- not to mention the greater role-playing genre as it existed in 1991 -- and not simply because it leapt ahead to the powerful Super NES. FFIV wasn't as much as game of firsts as it's sometimes treated in glowing retrospectives, but that shouldn't be seen as a lack of innovation. Other games certainly paved the way for FFIV; Phantasy Star II blazed a 16-bit trail, while Dragon Quest IV broke new ground by recontextualizing the grand, sweeping quests common to RPGs into a character-driven linear odyssey. What made FFIV so engrossing is that it rounded up the best ideas put forth by its competition, reworked them into a new whole, and in doing so owned those concepts.
From the opening moments of the game -- literally, as a cart with no save files on it will boot immediately into the introductory cinematic -- FFIV has a story to tell, and it isn't shy about showing off a little as it presents that tale. Ominous music plays as a fleet of airships (not the single airships of previous Final Fantasy games, a whole flotilla of them!) advances in formation. The landscape speeds past below. The scene shifts to the player's avatar, Cecil Harvey, captain of the Red Wing air fleet, pride of the Kingdom of Baron. Right away, this sets the tale apart: Cecil isn't a young kid, a nameless nobody, or a feeble amateur. He's a leader, an elite soldier who's risen through the ranks as a Dark Knight to take command of an entire nation's military powerhouse. Neither is Cecil a blank slate; he's conflicted about his actions, torn between duty and morality.
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WEBZEN Inc., (www.webzen.com), the Next Generation of Free-to-Play Online Games, has recently renovated their global portal website according to their slogan where they will become a user focused portal by providing new and improved customer service.
Along with the move to alaplaya.net, ProSiebenSat.1 Digital is treating the fantasy MMORPG Maestia to an extensive update. On January 31, 2012, the free-to-play hit with the new subheading "Rise of Keledus" will reappear in a technically overhauled version. A selection of new screenshots today provides an insight into the huge visual changes that will take place.
Just recently, TERA North America publisher En Masse Entertainment finally announced that the game will be released on May 1st(link) this year. But due to a lawsuit filed earlier this month by NCsoft, the original launch plan seems out on a limb.
Enjoy the fourth part of this exclusive gameplay videos of Star Wars: The Old Republic that shows the class quest of the Bounty Hunter Class. Bounty Hunter class quest part 7 Star Wars: The Old Republic will allow thousands of players to explore, adventure, and fight in a single game session. SWTOR represents a new [...]
Aeria Games with FREE MMORPG and MMO Reviews is celebrating a Sniper Starter Pack Giveaway fot its futuristic shooter Repulse. The Sniper Starter Pack includes a powerful rifle, camoflauge gear, grenades and reduced respawn time. - Indigo NS-1 Rifle (7-Day) - Type A Camo Rig (7-Day) - Type S Chameleon Rig (7-Day) - Smoke Grenades [...]
Ignited Games has announced the first major content update for its free-to-play combat-action MMORPG Rosh Online: The Return of Karos. The new content update increases the game’s level cap from 55 to 65, and opens two new maps, Lupinel Chapel Catacomb and the first two floors of Sentryheil Tower. Seasoned veterans seeking even greater challenges [...]
ProSiebenSat.1 Digital is going to release a new update for its free-to-play MMORPG Maestia on January 31th. The new update, “Rise of Keledus” comes with optimized graphics. This is achieved through new visual effects such as high dynamic range, which adds more contrast to the environments. As the game switches to a new server, the [...]
Mail.Ru Games has announced new PvP features for its free-to-play browser game Legend: Legacy of the Dragons. From today, UK players will have the opportunity to pit their strength against gamers from all over Europe on new Inter-Server Battlefields. Since time immemorial, the Magmars and Humans have fought against each other. What's more; the grotesque [...]
Frogster with MMO Reviews and FREE MMORPG, is giving away 1000 exclusive free mounts only for European new registrations, for Runes of Magic. IMPORTANT :These keys only work in Europe To get your exclusive mount you only have to follow us on Facebook . After that add you email in below the image of the [...]
The Settlers Online is a browser based mmorts published by Ubisoft and you can directly play it from your favourite browser. During this review we’ll explain in detail what you can find inside the world of The Settlers Online, that take place in the same universe of the famous brand The Settlers. The player can [...]
Perfect World Entertainment has announced a new content update for Rusty Hearts, named Requiem, that is coming on February 14th. Besides the availability of Roselle, a new premium character, players can expect new dungeons for 8-player raids, training, acquiring new equipment and crafting materials, and achieving new skills. In addition the fans will be thrilled [...]
Zombie Studios has presented a new trailer of Blacklight Retribution named “Heavy Weapons“. In this latest trailer Blacklight Retribution show some of the best practices to use when facing enemy snipers.
The PlanetSide 2 team got together to create and publish a brand new video podcast that shines the spotlight on Nanite Systems Vehicles. Matt Higby talked with Game Designer Kevin Moyer and Senior Art Director Tramell Isaac about vehicles including the Sunderer, the Lightening, the Liberator, and the Galaxy. Enjoy!
