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Gamerz for Gamerz is a brand new service that is set up to bolster online gaming communities. The idea is simple, yet exciting: bring gamers and devs together both in game and in person to build a stronger bond and share stories of their favorite hobby. This is not only done through a simple forum or Facebook page, but through an array of special tools that will make interaction much easier.
Some time ago, I wrote a piece about whether Heroes of the Storm could achieve the same casual success as Hearthstone, comparing Blizzard’s two new entries to the MOBA and online TCG genres, respectively. It’s difficult to determine just yet how financially profitable is HotS after its official release in June, but it anecdotally seems to have engendered a great amount of critical and community acclaim.
As the loud drum beat of hopeful anticipation echoes from the West, Capcom took to the stage at the Tokyo Game Show with a pair of videos to showcase the v1.1 update and the new class coming with it, the Element Archer, a healer as well as a ranged dynamo. Check them out and leave us your impressions in the comments.
Skyshine has released a brand new game that combines the best of several genres into a single theme — RPG, strategy, rogue-like and more all create a cool synergy.
Naoki Yoshida dishes out info on Exploratory Missions and the Lord of Verminion minigame for FFXIV Patch 3.1 As Goes Light, So Goes Darkness!
It’s often said that in level-based MMORPGs, the endgame represents a completely different gameplay experience than that which precedes it. Some developers have gone as far as to say that it’s at the level cap where the game actually starts – which is ludicrous if you’ve spent over a hundred hours grinding through content just to make it there.
For fans of 12Sky, sadly shut down in about 2009, today marks a banner day with the revival of the game by a new company named Anrinch Entertainment. According to information sent out way, 12Sky has been hosting several hundred players concurrently and is on the lookout for more players to join up.
This will ruffle some feathers. The staff at MMORPG.com, from President Craig McGregor and CTO Ben Krueger, to our wonderful list of reviewers, columnists, and community managers, all the way down to your humble and lowly Managing Editor (me) have voted. We took the top player-rated games from our Game List, including those that have been closed after launch, and we ranked them. Each of us filing up our own top 35 list from greatest to least great.
Horror genre fans are no doubt acquainted with the Five Nights at Freddy’s series of games, all four of them. Wildly popular, the series is even being made into a film by Warner Bros. Series creator Scott Cawthon is ready to branch out and is taking the setting, if not the game play, to RPGs as he announced on the Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 Steam community page yesterday.
RPG Files is back from its two week break, and Chris dives deep into Divinity: Original Sin 2 and how it’s shaping up to be one of the most revolutionary RPGs in years.