Many studios have turned to Steam to relaunch their MMORPGs in the hope that Valve's platform gives them second wind. Some game listings are baffling: servers that shut down due to low playerbases years ago, or even one private server that snuck its way onto Steam. Others show up and see some success. Regardless of how they got, they're back, [...]
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If you've joined a guild you've probably dealt with a guild leader, and many guild leaders—at least in my experience—have embodied similar personality traits. And so I'm wondering if people who become leaders in MMOs are also leaders in their everyday life: a Commander in Natural Selection 2, a raid leader in World of Warcraft, a corporation manger in EVE [...]
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Welcome to a new weekly editorial (maybe), where each of the MMOs.com crew discusses what we've been playing since the last Podcast. Though we're the MMOs site, we don't only play MMOs in our free time—hence this article's banner—and we want to share those games with you guys and hear about what you've been playing. Especially since we don't always [...]
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Lawbreakers' first Closed Beta weekend just ended and while I enjoyed the FPS quite a bit, it stirred up my nostalgia for older shooters. Every modern multiplayer game with a gun—at least the ones from the last couple years—have incorporated the same ingredient: characters, singular choices that have abilities or weapons that only they can wield. It's a page from [...]
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Considering all of his wandering rants I can’t help but wonder what MMO Socrates would play. It wouldn’t be the typical, run-of-the-mill game. No, no. As one of the founders of Western philosophy Socrates was a special character, and the MMO would have to let him carry his famous—or infamous—traits into his second home. Which is why the perfect MMO [...]
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On this Sunday Funday the MMOs.com crew is breaking the law, and also upholding it—um.. do we arrest ourselves?—in Lawbreakers. When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST If you can't make it you can always watch on the MMOs.com YouTube channel once its uploaded. Watch live video from mmosdotcom on www.twitch.tv
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Putting together game trailers is an art: editors have to make a game look epic and the music underlying whatever visuals you show should foster that epicness. Somebody at the Kingdom Under Fire 2 studio goofed. The below "Epic Raid Teaser," (as provided by the venerable Steparu) starts out fine enough, with a mystical guitar and ominous wind rush, setting [...]
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Crafting and gathering can seem pretty daunting when you first take a look at the interface in Revelation Online. That's why today, I'm going to elucidate the finer features of the systems. If I miss anything or you're still confused by the end of the guide, let us know in the comments below and we'll do our best to clarify. [...]
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When I see players complaining that game X is boring, and they’re met with the response “Well, the game doesn’t begin until you reach the endgame,” I have to pour myself a drink. It’s one of those consensus statements I find baffling, in the same way I find “The Earth is only 2000 years old,” or “Transformer 4 is a [...]
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Sometimes dungeons can be so hectic and involved that it's hard to type to your group members. Not that it matters. In most MMORPGs, group content is a snore, with no need to communicate. Does that mean we shouldn't talk at all? A part of me thinks an in-game voice chat (VOIP) would let people talk nonsense during a dungeon—or [...]
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