Category: MMORPG.com General News

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. Retagged “CivilizationEDU’, the history-inspired RTS will give students a chance to use critical thinking skills to recreate historical events as well as assess the impact of decisions on social, economic and geopolitical segments of societies.

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 of Black Desert Online, Final Fantasy XIV, and even older games like Guild Wars 2 still demanding a decent rig, keeping everything up to date can be confusing if you don’t know where to start.

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 supplies last!

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 where you can play a wizard using all kinds of magic.

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 will be anywhere near ready. Despite all that, I walked out of the demo feeling strangely enthused by the whole thing. Maybe it’s because Elex is developed by Piranha Bytes, the names behind Gothic and Risen.

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 an awful idea to me. But MXM isn’t a MOBA, it smartly borrows some of those ideas, a few more from action RPGs, and then even a sprinkling from MMOs, and turns that all into something that so far feels distinct and different.

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 back to the old site, but not for long!

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 mainstays only making additions within a well-worn wrapper.

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 the developers and much more.

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 jangling nerves, our thoughts are clearer. We’ve come up with five things to do to ease the wait. See what we came up with before adding a few ideas too.