Blizzard don’t do things by half, even though their penny-pushing paymasters at that hideous Activision Vivendi conglomerate would rather the obscene amounts of money just keep coming in rather than being spent on frivolous events. Still, BlizzCon is running and it’s giving us loads of Blizzard-related information. This post will be updated as more crucial […]
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Hellgate: London cast up the River Styxx
Looks like today’s foot of snow in London was as much trouble for denizens of hell as it was for all the bendy buses… It’s been a while coming, despite efforts to save the game and turn it into a free-to-play effort, but the plug was finally pulled on the European servers yesterday, as outlined […]
I tend to avoid MMOs like the plague, but it’s hard to miss the hoo-hah surrounding Age of Conan. It was heralded for its entire development as being the first MMO to be built for DirectX 10, packed full of hardcore adult content including nudity, violence and mature themes, coupled with a combat system more […]
Yep, you read that right – EA, those ever lovable masters of needless license-squatting, are farming out the Dungeon Keeper I.P. to one of the many MMO factories that populate the far east (presumably on the same reclaimed landmass as that huge Nike factory and the place where your iPod was built). NetDragon WebSoft Inc. […]
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Tabula Rasa going offline
Destination Games Tabula Rasa, brainchild of Richard ‘Lord/General/Insert-Title-Here British’ Garriott, is to shut down after just over a year of fairly poor performance in MMO circles. The servers are due to get a tabula rasa of their own at the end of February next year, but from the 10th January, the entire game will be […]
BradyGames announces the official guide for World of Warcraft : Wrath of the Lich King. As the official guide to Northrend, lets hope it would help you avoid his wrath…!
Just like the Scourge Invasion that preceded the release of the Burning Crusade expansion back in 2007, Blizzard has started to spread the plagued tendrils of the Lich King (their words) amongst its server population as a prelude to the arrival of the long-awaited expansion to the biggest MMO the world has ever seen. Perks […]
In what seems to have been the internet’s laziestly kept secret after the new Macbook Pros, cornerstones of spacey RPG-ness Bioware and their new EA overlords have officially announced the long-rumoured-and-secretly-suspected Knights of the Old Republic MMO, now officially called Star Wars : The Old Republic. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, players will explore […]