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Each week our resident Indie Gamer Nicholas takes a look at a different Indie Game that you may or may not have heard about. Join him on his adventures as he sifts through the rubbish to find The Indie Game of the Week.
The most requested title to transition to an MMORPG comes from fans of the increasingly popular series, Pokemon. Is there any reason why Nintendo would want to restrict such a successful franchise from expanding even further? This series delves into why Nintendo needs to make Pokemon an MMORPG.
Join MMO Attack as they roam the showroom floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Each year the MMO market grows more and more competitive. One of the less talked about genres in online gaming are sandbox MMORPGs. This type of MMO is very popular but tends to lack long term reliability. It’s a hard task trying to invent massive environments and still have players feel like they are creating the world around them. With games being funded through kickstarter and others failing ever see the light of day, it may be difficult knowing what MMO games are really worth your time. MMO Attack is here to help though, bringing you ten of the best sandbox MMORPGs to being released in 2013.
Each week our resident Indie Gamer Nicholas takes a look at a different Indie Game that you may or may not have heard about. Join him on his adventures as he sifts through the rubbish to find The Indie Game of the Week.
Love and Hate ? Character and Item Multiplicity – This series aims to break down the ins and outs of the MMO gaming world; including aspects like a game?s economy, chat methods, leveling capabilities, and overall player interaction.
As most of you probably know by now, Sim City’s launch hasn’t exactly gone smoothly. To be honest, it’s been a downright disaster, even worse than Diablo III’s infamous “Error 37” fiasco. Though I’m certain the game might eventually find redemption somewhere down the road, for the time being it’s a complete botch job. A lot of people are trying to figure out what went wrong – and most of them are pointing to a single factor (the shoddy DRM EA saddled the title with). In truth, it’s actually a touch more complicated than that.
In a day and age where everyone has a computer, most consumers buy what’s most popular; and the Mac is certainly popular. Tons of people own a Mac, enjoying a user friendly operating system, a strong processor, and reliable amount of power. With such capabilities, there would no doubt be MMORPGs on the Mac one day. Some games have succeeded on the PC for years, while others have taken life on both operating systems concurrently. Best of all, you can try out every single one of these games for free. Here are the top 10 free-to-play MMORPGs made for the Mac.
I’ve been playing a lot of Dark Souls lately, and it’s gotten me thinking about game design. More specifically, it’s gotten me musing about the linearity that’s been cropping up so frequently in modern titles, and the question of openness. How open is too open? How much control should the developer exert over the player? When does a game cross the line and become too linear, too rigid?
I’m sure you’ve all had an experience like this at one point: you’re online and you see a game or download you’re particularly interested in. There’s one minor problem: you can’t directly purchase it with real currency. You’ll need to exchange your hard-earned cash for in-service “points” which can then be put towards that thing you’ve got your eye one. There’s another problem, too. The product costs 1200 ‘points.’ The only points packages available come in iterations of 500.
Love and Hate ? Solo and Group Play – This series aims to break down the ins and outs of the MMO gaming world; including aspects like a game?s economy, chat methods, leveling capabilities, and overall player interaction.
Each week our resident Indie Gamer Nicholas takes a look at a different Indie Game that you may or may not have heard about. Join him on his adventures as he sifts through the rubbish to find The Indie Game of the Week.
The most requested title to transition to an MMORPG comes from fans of the increasingly popular series, Pokemon. Is there any reason why Nintendo would want to restrict such a successful franchise from expanding even further? This series delves into why Nintendo needs to make Pokemon an MMORPG.
MMO Attack and Aeria Games have teamed up to offer players of their Mature MMORPG Scarlet Blade an awesome item pack which will help you along your journey in the closed beta.
See, sometimes an honest-to-god sequel simply isn’t in the cards. There are many reasons for this. Perhaps the studio that originally made the game is now defunct, and the rights are lost – in this case, the only choice is to create something entirely new. Perhaps the developer has already told the story they wanted to tell, and feel that it’s time to move on to something new – all while retaining the feel of the series they’ve come to know and love as much as their fans.
Or maybe they were just inspired by someone else to make something grand. Whatever the case, there are quite a few games out there which draw heavy inspiration from – and are considered successors to – the games of yesteryear. Some you might know better than others.
MMO Attack had the opportunity to speak with Pierre Gilbert, the Lead Game Designer of Dogs of War Online about the game and what we can expect in the future.