If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Dragon Eternity, a browser-based MMORPG from Q1 Online, has now moved from closed beta to public testing. So now anyone can head over to the website and sign up to play. Being browser-based, the game doesn’t require any installation, [...]
Subscriptions levels for massively multiplayer online games fell in 2010 for the first time ever, according to research from ScreenDigest. There was a drop in purchases for MMOGs on the PC in both North America and Europe. In 2009, $1.66 billion was made by the MMOG industry, but that figure dropped a year later by [...]
A new video has been released displaying gameplay footage of the forthcoming Star Wars MMOG The Old Republic. Developer Bioware released the ten minute video, despite still not having confirmed a launch date for the highly anticipated video game. Dallas Dickinson, the director of the game’s production provides voiceover commentary to the gameplay that is [...]
Firefall is a free-to-play team-based action shooter with a persistent online world that’s currently in beta testing. For those keen to get a closer look, however, developer Red 5 Studios has announced that it will be showing off the game live at Gamescom next week (over in Germany), and then at PAX Prime in Seattle. [...]
Sony has just revealed that the first downloadable content pack for its MMOG DC Universe Online will be out this summer. Entitled Fight for the Light, the DLC is themed around The Green Lantern (the film of which just came out, of course). It introduces a seventh power set to the game, that of “light”. [...]
Sony Online Entertainment has been cutting the price of its massively multiplayer game offerings. Now the price of a monthly subscription to EverQuest, EQ2, Planetside, Vanguard and DC Universe Online is $15 a month. Previously, some of these games were already set at this price level, but some were apparently $20, we’re not sure which. [...]
A number of massively multiplayer games have made the transition to free-to-play as a business model. Recently both Age of Conan and City of Heroes announced they’ll be taking the free road later this year. However, World of Warcraft is so hugely successful if Blizzard announced it was going free, everyone would fall off their [...]
Good news for people who like to wear their underpants on top of their trousers… NCsoft has announced that its massively multiplayer superhero title, City of Heroes, will be going the free-to-play route later this year. City of Heroes Freedom will offer some seven years of game content for free, although as is generally the [...]
Last night CCP Games announced that the servers of its sci-fi MMOG EVE Online had been targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. This resulted in the game being brought down as the servers were taken offline for an investigation to ensure no data was compromised (by a potential attack which could have been timed to [...]
Three years after it was launched, Funcom has announced that the massively multiplayer Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is going free-to-play. It will be relaunched under the name Age of Conan: Unrated this summer, and will adopt a hybrid business model with anyone free to pillage the landscape at no cost, keeping premium subscribers who [...]
Bigpoint has opened the airlock on its massively multiplayer Battlestar Galactica Online. The browser-based MMOG is based on the TV series as screened by Syfy, and is free to play, so you won’t lose anything by giving it a whirl. Bigpoint boasts that the game is bedecked with high quality 3D graphics, and blends tactical [...]
The Syfy network and California-based game developer Trion are putting their heads together to launch something unique in the world of massively multiplayer gaming. Namely, a TV show and a massively multiplayer online game based in the same universe and launching simultaneously. One Earth, which is the show/game’s working title, will “revolutionize the way you [...]
Think your 24 inch monitor is the bee’s proverbials when it comes to gaming? Think again. In the quest for big screen gaming, a Chinese chap has gone further than most, hiring some time on Asia’s biggest LED screen (and thought to be the second largest in the world). He sat reclining underneath the screen, [...]
Newzoo has produced its MMO Games Market Report for 2010, a look at the current state of massively multiplayer gaming in the US. And the latest figures show that some 47.5 million Americans partake of massively multiplayer online action, and the total spending on these games is up 30% compared to 2009. However, nearly 90% [...]
Publisher Bigpoint has made some more details available regarding its upcoming browser based MMOG, Battlestar Galactica Online. Launching at Syfy.com this autumn, the free-to-play game will apparently be one of the most ambitious ever developed for a browser, with next-generation graphics promised. Heiko Hubertz, CEO of Bigpoint, commented: “Bigpoint’s goal is to raise expectations on [...]
APB (All Points Bulletin) is EA’s new online game, which is basically a massively multiplayer cops and robbers sandbox. APB is freshly launched, and as part of the marketing activity surrounding the game, EA has announced something called the “Human Avatar” experiment. The company is calling it a real-time experiment in identity and transformation. Basically, [...]
The official Battlestar Galactica Online trailer has been released, ahead of tomorrow’s E3 games show in Los Angeles. It shows off some snazzy combat sequences, before posing the question: “Human or cylon, man or machine, which side will you take?” Apparently, there’s no option for small furry creature from Alpha Centurai, which we were hoping [...]
Wondering who the twenty most influential people in the world of massively multiplayer online gaming are? No, neither were we. But when we spotted that Beckett Massive Online Gamer, the US based magazine, had compiled a list, we were intrigued enough to take a look. Who’s number one, we thought, and we were quickly answered [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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