Entries Tagged ‘MMO’

Guild Wars 2 Exclusive: A Few Questions with Mike O’Brien

I got in touch with ArenaNet head honcho Mike O’Brien &  designer / writier Ree Soesbee to get some clarification on some of the new info about GW2 that’s come out of Gamescom in the last couple of days. They were kind enough to get back to us pretty quickly, despite being knee deep in the GC […]

Blizzard Announces WoW Expansion III: Cataclysm

Here’s the headline from the new page up at worldofwarcraft.com:  An ancient evil lies dormant within Deepholm, the domain of earth in the Elemental Plane. There’s a video clip there as well as links to both Goblins and Worgen, the two new playable races. There are two new zones (Gilneas and Lost Isles), new race […]

Guild Wars 2: A Few More Details

From the interview with the GW2 team over at Eurogamer, we’ve gleaned a few more details on GW2: There will be crafting! The entire quest system will be based on ArenaNet’s new events system, so there won’t be the familiar exclamation points above quest-givers’ heads anymore. This is sounding more like a cross between a […]

Champions Online Pre-Order Offer

If you’re one of the many people looking forward to Cryptic’s Champions Online MMO, make sure you consider the pre-order offer they’ve got going on right now. If you buy either a lifetime ($199.99) or 6-month ($59.99) subscription, you’ll get a few fun perks, such as: Access to the Star Trek Online Close Beta scheduled […]

Video: Aion Character Customization with NC’s Lani Blazier

Video Game – E3 2009 – Video Game Trailers So, as you know, I’ve talked about Aion quite a bit on the podcast (Episode 30 recording after lunch!), so I thought I’d share this video with those of you who maybe haven’t seen much of the game so far. Or who don’t believe that cute […]

Fanboy Heads Prepare to Explode: Blizzard Working on New MMO

Jeff Kaplan, lead designer on World of Warcraft of late, mentioned in a forum posting that he’s leaving the WoW team to start work on Blizzard’s next MMO project. This is the first time that any official word from Blizzard has come out hinting at the existance of such a project. Of course no further […]