Category: MMORPG.com General News

My.com has announced a new mobile RPG/action/MOBA hybrid called Juggernaut Wars. According to press, there will be “dozens of heroes, beautiful arenas and thousands of upgrade possibilities”. The RPG features include hero backstories. A teaser trailer has also been released so check it out!

Our own Bill Murphy will be streaming SkySaga tonight, Wednesday, January 13th with members of the Community team in the chat to take questions and to hang out. Join the MMORPG.com Live Stream channel at 6:30 pm Pacific / 9:30pm Eastern tonight!

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the launch of Sierra’s The Realm, the original lead programmer, Stephen Nichols, is hoping to bring the game back to life. Nichols is working on the preliminaries in preparation for a KickStarter run to bring The Realm: Reawakened to life.

Stacey Sher has been named the co-president of Activision-Blizzard Studios to bring some of the company’s iconic series to both big and small screens. Sher’s credits include The Hateful Eight, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, Garden State, Erin Brockovich, Matilda and Into the Badlands.

If you were to tell me that there’s an upcoming golf game that’s part PGA Tour, part Mario Golf, and all MMORPG, I’d probably look at you funny. Yet, that’s exactly the theme of Winning Putt: combining accurate golf mechanics with larger-than-life abilities and all of the features that you’d expect from a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.

Amazon Prime members will receive yet another good reason to stay subscribed with the just-announced 20% off of all game preorders. Fans can also get 20% off of games within two weeks of release. Members can choose from multiple platforms including PlayStation 4, XBox One and PC.

At a public high school in Norway, freshmen will have the opportunity to participate in eSports with the ultimate goal of competing in tournaments throughout the country. Students will be graded the same as any other school subject and be counted as part of a student’s GPA.

The sky is falling. The AAA MMORPG scene is in decay. We should all just take our sports balls and go home. Or maybe not. Rob thinks out loud on how some multiplayer features in single player console RPGs are offering features that could go a long way in a new crop of MMOs.

The Telegraph is reporting that the Vive virtual reality headset will be ready for preorder on February (yes, 2016 is a leap year!). There is no word on the cost but popular speculation is that it will be about the same as the Oculus Rift at $600.

The lucky folks at Steparu.com have had a chance to play the MapleStory 2 beta and discovered a new addition in the form of musical instruments and free sheet music. You can check out the video below to see how it all works.