SAN JOSE, Calif., March 6, 2007 - Corum Online, a free to play MMORPG, will be opening up its Item Shop on March 6, 2007 after the weekly routine maintenance. Players can purchase the micro-currency, GPotato from the Item Shop and use their GPotato for...
For those of you who may not be aware, Top Secret is the project that will see the end result of the first user-made MMORPG. Many thousands of people will be sharing their ideas, concepts, and skills, through forums, to create this newest MMO. In short...
The Chinese goverment has recently put in place a ruleset limiting the amount of time chinese people can play online games, as well as put in place an 18 year old age limit. What consequences will this have for games like WoW? Read more below! Internet...
MMO FANTASY ADVENTURE COMING TO Wii | PS3 | PSP | DS | PC AND MAC Press release supplied by Games Press 10:14 (GMT) 28/05/2007 NextGenBooks.com and author Darren Reid today announced that they are brining an all new point and click fantasy adventure to...
This news thanks to Gamasutra is a good start toward getting rid of video game piracy in China. CDC Games - a Chinese online game developer has formed an alliance with CCP Games, Ons On Soft, Sonokong, T3 Entertainment and Wemade - called the Online Game...
Bungie, the company behind the Halo series of FPS games, has been part of rumors that suggest the next game to come out of the FPS veteran will be an FPSMMO. The latest rumors suggest that Bungie leaving Microsoft to set up as an indepedant will have...
The hit DS game Animal Crossing is famous for its thrilling multiplayer mode that shows just how much fun the game is and since its release, the gaming gurus of the World have wondered just what an Animal Crossing MMO would look like. Well, they may get...
Bethesda Software, creator of The Elder Scrolls series and Star Trek Legacy, have recieved a massive $300 million from their parent company, ZeniMax Media. The investment, courtesy of Providence Equity Partners, was donated to Bethesda to help with, "future...
MMO Portal has released their 2008 MMO Calendar. The calendar features massive titles that we are already familiar with as well as some titles that haven't been released yet, such as Stargate Worlds and Warhammer Online. The full list if games in...
A 13 year old Vietnamese boy has killed an 81-year-old woman to pay for his MMO subscription. Police say Dan strangled Mai Thi Mau, 81, with a piece of rope and took 100,000 dong (6.2 dollars) from her before burying her in a pile of sand in front of...
Sierra Online, Blizzard Entertainments sister company, has just announced that they will be using the BigWorld suite of Online development tools for as as yet unnamed mass market PC title. Just days ago, Vivendi announced that Blizzard Entertainment along...
We hear of PC Games having a detrimental effect on the health of young people all the time but this latest news sees one of Americas biggest sporting names depart Baseball to run his MMO house, 38 Studios. For those of you who don't know, Curt Schilling...
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for this years Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the 11th since its inception. Among the big names across the awards are top titles from the last year, such as Call of Duty 4...
The next sequel in the Kingdom Under Fire series, Kingdom Under Fire II, is set top be an MMO according to the games developer, Blueside. KuF2, the fifth game in the KuF series, was originally rumoured to only have MMO qualities but now it looks like...
Sid Meiers, the legendary creator of Civilization and Pirates!, has said that he'd like to play around with an MMO concept in the future. Mr. Meiers has said that he and his staff at Firaxis Games were in the very early stages of exploring an MMO...
It's well known (or is it?) that a lot of the people behind female characters in MMOs are guys in real-life. What you might not know is that approx 70% of female players uses male characters. People aren't always who they say they are.. especially...
Earlier this year information about Nasa investigating virtual space was released. There's now further information availible, including the latest RFP (Request For Proposal) Nasa MMO on the horizion? Education in gaming is doable and could work. It...
Dana Massey over at the WarCry network have published a very interesting article about the state of the MMO. The MMO industry has grown from a two-horse race at the turn of the century to one of the largest segments of the gaming industry and perhaps...
Sid Meier was interviewed by GameDaily a couple of days ago. So this news is not entirely fresh, but it's still worth to mention. Reason I haven't gotten around to post it earlier is simple: work load. While I continue to refine the way I work...
The Korean based game development company T-Entertainment announced today that they have licensed Epic Games Unreal Engine 3 for an upcoming MMORPG project which they've named L2. Interesting choice of name, considering that's what everyone call...
We have a very special treat for everyone going into this weekend. We were recently contacted by an MMORPG veteran of nearly nine years -- Musse Dolk -- who wished to upload a project he's created during his time in Game Design School. It's a...
Due to one single individual's difficulty to cancel his MMO subscription, a new law has been passed in Illinois that makes it illegal to have difficult unsubscription processes on MMORPGS. This leads me to wonder, have you had problems canceling a...
From Pure West Films comes a gaming documentary called "Second Skin" that takes a magnifying glass to three sets of MMO players who've been affected by online worlds in some influential way. The film has been released in select theaters/cities as of August 7th, and the DVD will be released on August 25th....
