Blizzard's annual gaming convention BlizzCon has been formally announced for 2017, and will take place in Anaheim, California from November 3rd to 4th. Of course, you have to prepare early for a BlizzCon. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 5th: Tickets to the 11th BlizzCon will go on sale in two batches: Wednesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. PDT Saturday, [...]
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Who needs GDC when you have the MMOs.com Podcast? The louder we talk, the right[er] we are. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST On tonight's episode we're talking Albion Online's latest update—and maybe one of the last before full release, how Dean Hall moon-walked away again, TERA's console gamble, and more! If you [...]
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Korean eSports website Sports Seoul is reporting that Blizzard is gearing up to release a graphically overhauled Starcraft 1, called StarCraft: Remastered around May or June of this year. The re-release would include the original RTS along with Brood War (the right choice). Blizzard may make an official announcement in Korea next week. The game wouldn't change beyond making higher-resolutions [...]
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Mordhau is a brutal medieval fighting game on Kickstarter that's been funded in less than 24 hours, and now sits at almost double its original goal. It's easy to see why. At a glance the features a complex combat system set in small duels all the way up to 64 player skirmishes on maps with trebuchets, horses, and ramparts to [...]
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The City of Heroes hopeful-spiritual-successor Ship of Heroes is heading to Kickstarter soon and asking for $400,000 to fund their vision. The Kickstarter will begin on April 04, 2017, and will last for five weeks. Ship of Heroes is just one of a few City of Heroes spiritual successors. There's also Heroes and Villains, City of Titans, Valiance Online, and [...]
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Another ".IO" game is set to launch tomorrow and this one is called Kugeln.io, a 2D multiplayer shooter. "Kugeln" is German for the word "spheres," which makes sense because you'll be playing as a gun-toting sphere in Kugeln (though since it's a 2D space it's really a circle, not a sphere, but let's keep the Euclidean criticisms for the comments [...]
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Dual Universe's February developer diary has plenty of interesting information to share, but also announced that Alpha testing has been delayed so that the team can stuff in more gameplay. For now, the tentative first test will take place in September. But the experience should be more fleshed out than it would be had Dual Universe stuck to its original [...]
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Ship Of Heroes is a spiritual successor to City of Heroes, where players become a superhero with unique powers and defend a spaceship called Heroship Justice from villains as they travel through the cosmos. [singlepic id=67430 w=428h=240 float=none] Publisher: Heroic Games Playerbase: TBD Type: MMORPG Release Date: TBA Pros: +City of Heroes spiritual successor. +Ambitious features. +Four class archetypes. Cons: [...]
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Entropia Universe is a virtual universe MMO with a micropayment system that gives items and property in the game real currency value. Hunt monsters, mine, level skills, buy deeds, and forge a corporate empire across six planets. [singlepic id=15263 w=428 h=240 float=none] Publisher: MindArk Playerbase: Medium Type: MMO Virtual Universe Release Date: January 30, 2003 Pros: +Huge, expansive world. +Robust [...]
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Revelation Online is giving players the opportunity to win prizes for creating propaganda posters designed to sell their guild. Who doesn't love some good old-fashioned exaggerated advertising to promote the war effort? Guilds are a central focus of Revelation Online's gameplay: players undertake dailies and fight in territorial wars to make a name for themselves and their guild. And what [...]
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