Rapty the Raptr’s first week at the office
In case you missed last Friday’s Weekly Loot, our friends over at Raptr.com sent us an adorable little mascot to keep us company while we toil away delivering news to you fine folks.
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The Behemoth Q&A – we need your Qs!
In the coming weeks, I will be once more venturing outside the MMO Attack office (remember the last time I did that?) in order to shoot a video interview with The Behemoth, the studio that developed Castle Crashers, Alien Hominid, Super Soviet Missile Mastar, and the upcoming Battleblock Theater.
Pokemon the MMO: should Nintendo make it a thing?
To date, there have been 70 Nintendo-sanctioned video games in the Pok?mon franchise spanning 12 systems. This includes the main series as well as the Mystery Dungeon spinoffs, Pok?mon-themed learning sims for children, electronic versions of the trading card game, Japan-exclusive mobile and PC apps, and those weird ones you can’t even begin to categorize like Hey You, Pikachu.
Is console history repeating itself?
Is console history repeating itself? Not to long ago Sony revealed that they would be posting their greatest profit loss to date.
Tribes Ascend Review
Tribes Ascend, the latest in the Tribes series, and the title not to be released by original developers Sierra Entertainment, is a free multiplayer online first-person shooter that allows players to slide around and launch themselves into the air, all while carefully aiming to destroy the other team.
THQ has 6 months to live
We?ve seen it happening more and more recently – large publishers losing profits, studio closures and wide-scale redundancies. Publishers are taking quite a beating in today?s gaming market, with what appears to be very little they can do aside from cutting down on costs in order to boost themselves financially. We?ve recently seen Sony do this, but THQ has been doing this for a while with no luck.
PAX asks Jessica Nigri to change [Updated]
UPDATE: I have since been linked to a Tweet from Gabe himself explaining that Nigri was not in fact kicked out, as the story originally stated, but simply asked to change.
Are next-gen systems necessary?
Rumours have been circulating the web over the past few weeks over the specifications of the new generations of systems. Some of them were obvious, such as better graphics, faster processing, etc. However, there were a few rumours that seemed to make the whole idea of a new generation of consoles seem unnecessary.
PS Vita Giveaway winners
Congratulations to the winners of our PS Vita giveaway! The grand prize winner was Beastbane, who will be receiving a PS Vita! The second place winner was OmegaPrimus, who will be receiving a Razer Naga MMO mouse! And the third place winner was Sykkuno, who will be receiving a shirt of his choice from J!nx!
What the new generations of gamers are missing
With the age gap between old and young gamers growing, new gamers are growing up without the little things that the older gamers hold dear, because of this new gamers are beginning to lose their appreciation of what makes games today near perfect.
Play all the Games ep. 1 BrowserQuest
In this inaugural episode of Play all the Games I’ll be bringing you the new HTML5 game from Mozilla, BrowserQuest.
Living After War closed beta – a brief look
Living After War (or L.A.W.) is a game currently undergoing closed Beta by www.Alaplaya.net. I managed to snag a beta key and spent less than two hours downloading the 3.6 GB of the game offered. Immediately I noticed upon entering the nifty little slideshow/opening cinematic they chose to display upon choosing a faction, which is simply a difference between cryogenically frozen humans or humans who have undergone evolution and surgery to enhance their bodies for survival on the rather havocked Earth.
Sony handhelds: always the bridesmaid
Nintendo has cornered the market on handhelds – they did it first, and they did it best. No one really cared about the PSP, let’s face it; so why would they care about a smaller, UMD-less PSP?
Assassin’s Creed III, new details emerge
Thank you, Ubisoft! A recent demo shown to journalists on the new Assassin?s Creed title means that we get a little sneak peek at what we?ll be playing later this year.
Smite has some serious pwning potential
Hi-Rez isn’t exactly a newcomer to the online gaming scene, but they are venturing into new territory with their latest free-to-play adventure: Smite.
Will the Wii U suffer the same fate as the Dreamcast?
Games analyst Michael Pachter recently surmised that Nintendo may be ?Dreamcasting? itself
with the launch of the Wii U on his webshow Pach-Attack. ?I think that if in fact it?s a lot like an Xbox 360
in terms of graphics, frame rate and control scheme, then it?s probably not going to sell well??