Category: MMORPG.com General News
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General: Not So MMO But Very Cool – Civilization V Heading to School
Take-Two Interactive, 2K and Firaxis have announced a deal with GlassLab, a non-profit company that seeks to bring “high-impact games to make learning visible, to bring Sid Meier’s Civilization V to high schools in North America beginning in 2017. Reta…
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General: Why You Should Buy a Solid State Drive
While they’re slowly branching out, MMORPGs have long existed in the realm of PC gaming, which is a huge benefit to the genre but also comes at a cost with needed to update and maintain a decent computer to play the more recent releases. With the likes…
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General: MXM Alpha Test Keys Giveaway!
MMORPG.com has been given a limited number of alpha test keys for Master X Master (MXM)! This key will give you access to the play test that will run June 24-27, beginning at 10am PDT and closing at 4pm PDT on the 27th. Get your key now while supplie…
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General: Left Hand Path – Playing a Magic-Wielding Wizard in VR
Virtual Reality will become a huge talking point over the next few months. As more developers work on games in this creative platform we are starting to see some real gems emerge. Hugh Hancock is on here to talk about The Left Hand Path. A VR game wher…
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General: ELEX Is One of My Favorite Games from E3 2016
It feels really weird to admit that Elex is one of the few games that really left an impression on me at E3. For one, the state in which I saw it was pretty rough, and it was immediately obvious that Elex has a mountain of obstacles to climb before it …
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General: E3 2016 – MXM Has a Unique Twist on a Tiring Concept
I need to confess, when NCsoft first showed me MXM last year I was pretty skeptical. While the version we played wasn’t localized, it was evident that NCsoft was trying to push into the free-to-play space of other MOBAs–which at the time seemed like a…
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General: So Close, But Not Quite – The New Site
After hours and hours of prepping, tweaking, massaging content – we launched the new MMORPG.com site around midnight EST last night. The site itself was ready, if needing a bit of polish. What wasn’t ready? The new servers at Amazon. For now, we’re bac…
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General: Zelda Was In Trouble, Breath of Wind Might Save It
Zelda: Breath of the Wild was the unexpected Game of the Show for many fans at this year’s E3. Many of us expected what Nintendo has been delivering: more Zelda. This time Link would be in an open world, of course, but by and large the series kept its …
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General: Hi-Rez Expo Headed to Atlanta in January 5-8, 2017
Hi-Rez is inviting its games’ fans to head to Atlanta, Georgia from January 5-8, 2017 to take part in the Hi-Rez Expo 2017. Fans will be able to watch the SMITE XBox World Championship and the Paladins HRX Invitational Tournament as well as hobnob with…
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General: 5 Things to Do During the 24-Hour Site Maintenance
We’ve all been feeling a bit ‘edgy’ with the 24-hour downtime coming at midnight and going for upwards of 24 hours. What will we do while MMORPG.com is down to bring the new site online? After breathing deeply into a small paper bag a few times to calm…