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The Ultima series is considered by many to be one of the pinnacles of video game history. You’d be hard pressed to find a “Best of” or “Top XX” list of games that shaped or were important to the evolution of the video game industry that doesn’t include the Ultima series. Ultima Online took that [...]
Tower defense games are easily one of my favorite subgenres of the strategy genre. And you don’t have to try very hard to find them out there, whether it be on your phone, PC or even consoles. Especially on phones, as it seems every other game released lately that isn’t a match-3 is a tower [...]
The free-to-play market is saturated with martial-arts themed MMOs. Sometimes termed ‘import’ MMOs, these games often have a common theme of classes based on Eastern philosophies and known martial-arts schools (Taoist and Shaolin, for example). Often cited as examples of poor localization in both game content and business philosophy, it’s hard for an MMO some [...]
In life I am Adam Tingle, a pessimistic ne’er-do-well desolate of real achievement or ambition- oh sure I can do impressive tricks afforded to me by double jointed leg bones but I am surely but a blip on the landscape of human excellence and achievement. There comes a time however, when I sit hunched over [...]
As is well known in the MMORPG community, Age of Conan didn’t have the most prestigious of births onto the gaming scene. Sure it sold extremely well, but it couldn’t retain the subscriber base to match its weighty hype level. The game was written off as a letdown by many, but still retained a quite [...]
MMORPG.com’s Michael Bitton returns to the world of WonderKing to check out Ndoors Interactive’s upcoming “Battlefields” PvP system. Last time I visited Ndoors Interactive’s free-to-play 2D sidescrolling MMO, WonderKing, was back in January when the game was still in beta testing and heading into launch. Fast forward three months later and the …
You know….Torchlight is getting a sequel…Torchlight which is awesome by the way, is run by a small studio. They can make those decisions on the drop of a hat. Hey, we’re developing a Torchlight MMO, but wait, we’re gonna do a sequel first to enhance game play, we’ll add co-op and customization and fun new [...]
Hello there, my online gaming fan. Though you most likely already know, many never seen before online games are ready to be released soon. Even though most of gamers are MMORPG players, shooter and strategy players still are a major cut of the gaming world. It just so happens that most die hard gamers (the [...]