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Tuesday February 26, 2008
All Points Bulletin - The Crackdown MMO by JP at 03:11 PM
Realtime Worlds, the guys behind Crackdown, instead of working on Crackdown 2 are actually working on a new MMO called All Points Bulletin. But looking at the article, you can see that APB is really pretty much Crackdown in an...
Friday February 22, 2008
Champions Online Trailer by JP at 07:36 PM
Champions Online, the new MMO from Cryptic Studios, the MMO that lets you create your own custom powers, now has a teaser trailer. Become all tingly below:...
Sunday November 25, 2007
Space Time Studios' New Science Fiction MMO: Time To Get Excited? by JP at 02:09 PM
The crew over at Ten Ton Hammer have an interview up with Space Time Studios' Cinco Barnes and Gary Gattis called Creating a Science-Fiction Epic. Space Time Studios is a new developer populated by ex-developers from Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima...
Wednesday November 21, 2007
Interesting MMO Items by JP at 10:48 AM
Just when you thought it was safe to be a MMO hater, they go and do soemthing to pull you back in. For instance: Tabula Rasa guy Starr Long gives an interview with TenTonHammer where he describes high-level mounts: mechs....
Thursday November 15, 2007
MMOs, Parenting And Time by JP at 12:46 PM
Mark over on Channel Massive has decided that you can be a great parent or a great gamer but you can't be both. Let's ignore the definition of 'great', which in this case is basically anyone who can engage in...
Wednesday November 14, 2007
MMO, Solo Content, and longevity... by Tim at 09:21 AM
Massively is a relatively new blog in the Weblogs Inc network, and focuses on MMOs.  At this point (since it is very new), it is an excellent resource for all things MMO.  It covers older and newer games which...
Tuesday November 13, 2007
Do You Enjoy The Grind In Your MMO? by JP at 09:37 PM
Almost all MMOs have a grind of one type or another, and most of us dread the time where the grind overtakes the game, then sucks the fun out of it. WOW Insider has the solution: listen to an audio...
Thursday October 11, 2007
Zero Punctuation Reviews: Tabula Rasa (Beta) by JP at 09:06 AM
As a big SF fan, I was really looking forward to Tabula Rasa. It's definitely SF and the promise of breaking traditional MMO gameplay elements was intriguing. Then I played the beta and I discovered that TR is basically the...
Sunday August 05, 2007
Can A SF MMO Be Successful? by JP at 01:18 PM
Over at pOtshOt, they've written an article discussing the differences between fantasy and SF based MMO's. He goes into quite a bit of detail and offers his thought's as to why SF-based MMOs haven't been successful: basically he posits that...
Wednesday July 25, 2007
Lord British Applies The Smack Down To MMO Designers by JP at 09:39 PM
Richard Garriot takes MMO developers to task by stating that MMO design hasn't changed in a decade, and that the games today 'undersell' the potential of MMO games. One can only wonder how WoW has 'undersold' anything, but he goes...
Tuesday July 10, 2007
Tabula Rasa Video by scottsh at 09:19 PM
NCSoft released a new trailer for its sci-fi oriented MMORPG Tabula Rasa today as part of E3. All I can say is I think it looks very cool. I like the Stargate-like art style and what seems to be a...
Monday July 02, 2007
Auto Assault Discontinued? by Tim at 11:13 PM
According to Shacknews, Auto Assault will no longer be supported by NetDevil and NCSoft after August 31, 2007. Very little other news is available at this point and according to Shacknews, they were able to download and sign up...
Monday June 18, 2007
Top MMO? by Tim at 10:51 AM
This week Blake Snow over at GigaOM published an article about the Top 10 Most Popular MMOs, and I have reproduced the list below: World of Warcraft (big surprise there) - 8.5 million subscribers. Habbo Hotel - 7.5 million active...
Monday June 11, 2007
REVIEW: Dungeon Runners by scottsh at 02:58 PM
I got a chance to play a new, mostly free, action oriented MMORPG named Dungeon Runners this past weekend and I thought I would share the results. This new title is produced by NCSoft and acts pretty much exactly like...
Wednesday March 14, 2007
Lord of the Rings Online - a change in business model by scottsh at 10:14 AM
While Tim has a great write-up on the gameplay in the about to be released Lord of the Rings Online, I was more surprised at the changes in business model than in the changes to the mechanics of 'run a...
Saturday March 10, 2007
Preview: Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar by Tim at 10:16 PM
That is one long title for the game.  This is a massively multiplayer game from the folks over at Turbine and Midway using the using the Lord of the Rings license (which should be obvious from the name.)  Turbine...
Monday February 12, 2007
WoW: Droods r 4 fite! by scottsh at 07:52 AM
At the risk of turning this site into WowSignal (hmm, might get more hits that way) I thought I'd share with the group my experience of playing a Druid in World of Warcraft, especially recently. The summary is - in...
Thursday January 18, 2007
Exploits by scottsh at 08:23 AM
Recently there was an incident in the game World of Warcraft where a pretty big group of players had their account suspended for 72 hours because they found a certain NPC they could kill repeatedly for large amounts of gold....
Wednesday December 27, 2006
REVIEW: World of Warcraft by scottsh at 08:23 AM
Due to the nature of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games, a standard review isn't really possible. There is huge amounts of content that not all players will see, and because developers can change the game through online patches, gameplay can...
Monday November 20, 2006
Tidbits For 11/20/2006 by JP at 11:19 AM
Today we have several totally unrelated items. Except that they all relate to gaming in some way, duh. Do your kids, or you, eat PopTarts? Do you have a love of hats and all things Xbox 360? Then PopTarts has...
Saturday September 02, 2006
When is it time to hang up your sword? by Tim at 10:57 AM
That is the question that needs to be asked when it is time to end your subscription to a given MMO title.  It is one that has been asked by most of us at some point, but what is the...
Sunday July 09, 2006
Private WoW servers by scottsh at 01:49 PM
The other day I stumbled across something I shouldn't have been surprised at but was - private World of Warcraft servers. It seems there are more than a couple of back-end emulators out there that allow you to run your...
Monday June 05, 2006
40-boxing WoW? by scottsh at 12:45 AM
From the WoW forums comes an interesting discussion on the feasability of 40-boxing the game. That is, one person controlling 40 characters. Insane? Maybe. Impossible? Maybe not. And over on Terra Nova, the discussion keeps going, suggesting that if you...
Monday May 29, 2006
Casual MMOs by JP at 10:57 AM
I've been messing around this weekend looking at the MMOs oriented toward the casual gamer from Three Rings Design. The first you've probably heard of, its called Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Puzzle Pirates is, as the name suggests, a game oriented...
Friday May 12, 2006
E3 Video Link Dump by JP at 10:22 AM
Wow, a lot of E3 videos for you today. Sweet. Amaze! at the Tabula Rasa in game action videos. Wow! to the Draenei and Blood Elf dances! Wonder! at the in game Mass Effect clip! Thrill! to the sites of...
Tuesday May 09, 2006
Warcraft - the movie! by scottsh at 03:39 PM
In what has to be the continuation of a terrible trend, Blizzard announced they are working with Legendary Pictures on a movie based on the Warcraft universe. I guess we should be happy it isn't Uwe Bole isn't doing it,...
Friday May 05, 2006
What do you mean there is more than one or two MMOs? by Tim at 02:48 PM
I know some folks may find this information hard to swallow, but there are a whole bunch of new massively multiplayer online games coming in the next year. Joystiq has pulled together an impressive list of the games that will...
Wednesday May 03, 2006
Gaming Tidbits - 05/03/2006 by JP at 10:36 AM
An MMO flavored tidbits today: Spacecowboy is a MMO 3D space shooter, where you control a fighter and duke it out with other players. I think this a skill game, where player reflexes are rather key. I haven't played it,...
Thursday March 16, 2006
Shadowbane for free by Tim at 05:29 PM
To continue with our MMO news theme of the day, Ubisoft has announced that you can now play Shadowbane for free. Thats right gratis, and that so fits with one of our mottos: if its free, its for me. Now...
BioWare to produce MMO by scottsh at 01:44 AM
BioWare has begun staffing a team of developers in its new studio in Austin, Texas to develop a Massively Multiplayer Online game (according to job postings on the BioWare web site.) BioWare hasn't announced what the subject matter will be,...
Friday March 10, 2006
MMOBraaaaiiiiinnnnssss! by JP at 10:54 AM
Exanimus is a new, horror-based MMO that is in the work. Players will be able to take the side of either a zombie or a survior, based in a post-apocalyptic world (of course! What other type of world is there...
Monday March 06, 2006
Dofus MMORPG by Kevin at 08:58 AM
I read about this game in CGW "Yeah, That's Right, We Dropped the F-Bomb" Magazine, in their article on 101 free games. It's a Flash-based fantasy tactical MMORPG, kind of like Final Fantasy Tactics. The art is really nice, and...
Friday February 24, 2006
It's A Road Rage Weekend! by JP at 08:59 AM
Auto Assault is quickly nearing its launch. In anticipation of that, NC Soft is opening the beta this weekend to anyone who wants to participate in a litle road rage. You can get your beta key from Fileplanet. You will...
Thursday February 23, 2006
Everything I need to know I learned in WOW??? by Tim at 10:21 AM
This is probably not a true statement, and is echoed by this Gamasutra post. The author makes a number of very good points about excellence has very little to do with actual skill and more about mass numbers and grind...
Wednesday February 22, 2006
UPDATED: Review of World of Warcraft by Peter at 10:09 AM
This is a repost, edit/update of my original review for World of Warcraft posted on SFSignal before GamingSignal came into being. This review has been remastered from the original and have been edited for content. REVIEW SUMMARY: The "short...
Friday February 10, 2006
A Little World or Warcraft Musical Number by JP at 08:45 AM
A little piece called "The Internet is for Porn". It's funny, and not TOO work unsafe....
Friday February 03, 2006
Sociology & Gaming by scottsh at 08:15 PM
If you've played a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game before you've no doubt noticed lots of interesting things about how people behave and interact in these worlds. First, there are the men who play as women - friends of yours,...
Tuesday January 31, 2006
One man's view of loot... by Tim at 02:40 PM
So after reading this latest article from WOW Insider regarding the upcoming new patch that adds some new armor, weather effects, and some other fixes. There are some additional details here in a 1UP article. The interesting thing to me...
EQ2 Combines Servers and Adds Content by Tim at 02:34 PM
I saw this news over on Worthplaying, and it is definitely interesting news. EverQuest 2 is combining servers since they have grown the number of zones and the world have been pretty "vacant". Now I am not sure what thier...
Sunday January 29, 2006
SomethingAwful takes on WoW by scottsh at 10:01 AM
Leave it to the irreverent humorists at the website SomethingAwful to take on World of Warcraft and point out its many foibles. Er, or should I say, man those funny bastages as SA.com totally rip on WoW and I was...
Wednesday January 18, 2006
More Interesting Upcoming Games by JP at 04:02 PM
Following up on a previous post, I've run across several new games that look really cool, in a mix of 360 and PC games, including MMOs....
Monday January 02, 2006
Asheron's Call 2 : Down in Flames by scottsh at 11:41 AM
Asheron's Call 2 was shut down as of Dec 31st, 2005. I never played it nor do I know anybody who did (Trent maybe?) It is hard to know if it was any good or not - standing out from...