Everyone has a fighting chance
With the new year upon us, it’s time to look back at 2014 and pick our favorite games across a range of categories. The first week of voting is all about the Biggest Surprise of the Year, the Most Improved MMO, the Most Anticipated MMO of 2015, and the Most Anticipated RPG of 2015. Click through to cast your votes!
ArenaNet has released a brand new teaser trailer that sets the scene for the finale of the Guild Wars 2 Living Story Season 2. Called "Point of No Return", players will reach a decisive moment. Check it out!
What a difference 12 months can make. Although the MMOG category did see some notable occurrences in 2014, I don’t know many people who felt it lived up to the potential it seemed to have at this time a year ago. I wouldn’t call it a disaster by any means, but neither did it knock my socks off. Entering 2015, I’m quietly optimistic. That said, I have questions about the what lies ahead, involving Landmark, The Elder Scrolls Online, EverQuest Next and more.
When I play an MMO, I love the feeling of walking through a virtual world. Sure, it’s fun to kill great beasts and to find epic adventure, but in the end I mostly look forward to meeting new virtual people that fill those virtual worlds. The problem is that crafting a living, virtual world is hard.
It’s a big galaxy. 400 billion stars big. There’s room enough to make your fortunes, room enough to find your fights and room enough to see things most people won’t pass by if you really work at it. In a galaxy like that, what you make of it is up to you. You… and others. It might be the little action of a few players bringing in the goods or it might be the larger actions of empires.
Fans of Revival, called by developers a return to old-school sandbox MMOs, will be happy to note that the official site is now live. The site is packed with information about Revival including a release schedule, game philosophy and more.
In an interview at WarcraftMovieFans.com, Duncan Jones, director of the Warcraft movie currently in post-production, has hinted that there may be more films in the works with which he will be involved.
Perfect World Entertainment’s Founder and Chairman of the Board, Michael Yufeng Chi, has submitted a proposal to buy out all shares of the gaming company’s stock in a privatization effort. All outstanding shares would be purchased for for $20 per American Depositary Share or $4 per ordinary share in cash according to a write up at GamesIndustry.biz.
Happy new year, everyone! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2015 and that World of Warcraft is entering its eleventh year! There’s many things to look forward to this year, the planned content patches for Warlords and the possibility of the next expansion being announced.
Smooth animations, fantastic audio quality, and a good UI are essential for making a good game no matter what genre you’re talking about. When it comes to MMO’s it’s hard to find a game that has a true polished feel. A lot of these games try to fill that gap by just reskinning old content, and slapping it on top of everything to make their game seem larger. Then there’s Guild Wars 2. An MMO so polished, it’s actually hard to believe. In fact, it’s still being polished!