Everyone has a fighting chance
Hey folks! If you’ve been with us here at MMORPG.com for a while, you’ll already know that we run this weekly feature called The List for everything related to MMOs and RPGs – because who doesn’t like itemizing things?! For the past while, David Jagneaux has been penning the column, and he’s done a spectacular job with it.
Do you remember when the mobile game’s market used to be its own genre? They were little more than time wasters with bright colors and simple mechanics, making the whole thing easy to just look over and ignore. But lately mobile games have started to become comparable in quality to their console counterparts, making them harder and harder to look over.
Red Thomas sits down with an Oculus Rift to experience first-hand its impact on several games, and in the process, ponders the probable impact on the industry’s trajectory. Alliteration aside, we must caution you that Red’s excitement could be contagious.
Victor outlines what Square Enix has planned for FFXIV players beyond 3.0 based on their recent anniversary livestream event.
COLOPL has announced that its mobile city building game with ‘classic RPG’ elements, Rune Story, will be launching in the west in the near future. Already in soft launch in several worldwide locations, Rune Story brings guild functionality, cooperative battles, customized play styles and more to mobile gamers.
Trion’s first new game since bringing Scott Hartsman back as CEO was the now certified hit, Trove. Today, they’re unveiling the second game to come out of the Trion Labs initiative: Atlas Reactor. A turn-based tactical combat game, Atlas Reactor has the looks and personality to stand on its own, and the tactical gameplay reminiscent of XCOM or Shadowrun to make us take notice.
This week, a few of us at the MMORPG offices went hands-on with Pillars of Eternity’s first expansion, The White March – Part 1. Read on for what Chris thought of his first two hours in the game.
Games like EverQuest and World of Warcraft have given us so much, providing the conceptual framework for the majority of MMOs that have been released over the past decade plus. Most contemporary MMORPGs, although distinct in their own right, emulate one or more tropes from their predecessors, which in turn were inspired by other video games and pen-and-paper RPGs.
MUD is a brand new MMO from indie studio Pure Bang Games, based in Baltimore Maryland. Built upon the ideals that made Multi User Dungeons the precursor to what we now know as MMORPGs, MUD seeks to bring players into a world that reacts to their choices. We spoke with project lead Benjamin Walsh about MUD, its many systems, and when we can expect to get our hands on the game.
YouTube is ready to take on Twitch.tv head-to-head with today’s launch of its gaming-specific feature. The mega site will put gaming videos, channels, streams and more at a user’s fingertips.