April Fools: Guild Wars endgame armor replaced with stick figures
Guild Wars players lucky enough to have their 15K armor sets (like me!) will find their armor now transforms them into a stick figure. Monks rejoice; now it’ll take the opposing team ten whole seconds...
View ArticleUniversity researcher: World of Warcraft relaxes players
Jane Barnett of Middlesex University in London claims people are more relaxed after playing World of Warcraft. She conducted a study of just under 300 WoW players between the age of 12 and 83 and...
View ArticlePersistent, online-only Company of Heroes in the works
THQ plans to tap into the Chinese games market by developing an online-only version of Relic’s popular WWII-themed RTS specifically for the country. They plan to design “[an] experience for online...
View ArticleDouble Fusion brings in-game ads to City of Heroes
Double Fusion and NCsoft have announced plans to team up and battle the evil of drying revenue streams by bringing an optional in-game advertising program to City of Heroes. In-game ads for real world...
View ArticleVideo: Hour-long Warhammer Online presentation
Some kind soul recorded a presentation given by Jeff Hickman and Josh Drescher, two of Warhammer Online’s producers, from the recent WAR Paris Press Event and put it online for the rest of us. The...
View ArticleFirst details on THQ’s Warhammer 40K MMO
Besides scoring a blowout preview of the recently-announced Warhammer 40K RTS Dawn of War 2, the latest issue of PC Gamer also has the first details on THQ’s Warhammer 40K MMO. The title will have...
View ArticleWorld of Stephen King Online
The DORK Club is now a games developer. If Nibris can get away with being classified as one in the eyes of the gaming “press,” then consarn it, so can we. We’ve got a $100 game engine and everything!...
View ArticleConfessions of an MMO Addict
I am a weak, pathetic waste of man-meat. This isn’t news. I pre-ordered Warhammer Online through Direct 2 Drive in order to get access to the “open” beta. I am nothing if not predictable. It was the...
View ArticleThe Coolest Thing I’ve Seen All Month: EverQuest Dings 10
EverQuest is now ten years old, and regardless of your opinions on the game itself, it’s hard not to respect SOE’s genre-defining behemoth. And it seems like EQ only just reached level nine. They grow...
View ArticleThe Machines Win: The Matrix Online Shuts Down
The Matrix Online has finally joined Morpheus in the great beyond, joining the very short but always expanding list of commercially-released MMOs that have closed up shop. Check out Giant Bomb‘s...
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