Category: MMORPG.com General News

It’s no secret MMO players generally feel their needs are unmet – because of this, Alex Albrecht (former G4 host) and Scott Katz (former co-founder of Maker Studios) have created ZergID.

The holiday season has arrived, and with it comes the annual torrent of questions: what games are worth buying? Which games lived up to the hype? And most important of all, which in this diverse sea of games earns the coveted title of "Game of the Year"? We have a new question: even with leveling, and stats, and gear, how many of them – Destiny, Shadow of Mordor, Overwatch? – actually deserve to be called RPGs?

Earlier this week, Nilden had an awesome idea and one that we honestly should have been doing sooner. Basically, we’re going to start using my column space here as a "Letter to the Editor" sort of piece. For this week, we’re going back to 2001 and the beginning of MMORPG.com. Read on to learn some history of our site and some perspective on its future as well.

Ossian Studios has announced that its story-driven RPG, The Shadow Sun, is headed to the Android mobile platform soon and is already available on iOS. The Shadow Sun is considered a dark fantasy RPG with over ten hours of game play, all accomplished on mobile devices.

With more and more games adopting RPG features and MMO aspects, we’re starting a new series called "The RPG In" (or the MMO in, depending on the game). Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed is no stranger to having RPG aspects, and today we’re taking a look at the features that make Arno’s French tale more than just an open world action game.

I feel this doubling of efforts towards World of Warcraft is all you’re going to see on the MMO front for the foreseeable future. So, what now? What does it all mean for Blizzard? Well, it seems to me that the studio is looking to move on to smaller and better things.

While I won’t go as far as to say it usually happens, neither is it uncommon that when I look back at the recent past in order to decide what to write about, I end up with unanswered or unanswerable questions. This is at least partly due to how my mind works in relation to the MMOG space; I seldom take what I see or hear at face value. Some of the titles I’ve had cause to wonder about lately are Overwatch, Dawngate, WildStar and Otherland.

Bill Murphy is on the ground at Blizzcon 2014. In between interviews, game play sessions and shopping at the Blizzcon store, Bill found some terrific things he considered photo-worthy. Check out Bill’s Blizzcon 2014 Gallery!

Today at BlizzCon we went hands on with the first new IP from Blizzard in seventeen years, Overwatch. A competitive team-based shooter, Overwatch looks to do what Blizzard does best; take a genre and refine it, distill it, and bring out the most important parts. Read on for our full first impressions.

This month, Ubi’s hoping to capture players’ imaginations (and inspire impulse buys) with its new fantasy free-to-play strategy RPG, Battle of Heroes: Land of Immortals. The game is available on the App Store, Google Play and the Amazon app store, and offers players the chance to collect and upgrade their own unique war heroes.