Black Prophecy: In Your Face

Posted on Mar 02, 2011

There really aren’t a lot of MMOGs set in space available on today’s market. For a while now, EVE Online has enjoyed the relative peace that comes from occupying a niche gap, as well as having an under-used setting. This is soon bound to change as Black Prophecy (and Jumpgate Evolution), the latest title from

Lore Hound MMOcast: Episode 10

Posted on Jun 05, 2010

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Join iTZKooPA, Amatera, Juggynaut, and pixiestixy for this week’s MMOcast. Topics for this week include: News: DC Universe Online dated for simultaneous launch in November. Third Star Wars MMOG, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, announced. World of Tanks development trees (Ruskies, Nazis and the best). Runes of Magic

Rumor Barn: 2K Planning Bioshock MMO

Posted on Apr 14, 2010

As far as secret sources go, this is about as mysterious as you can get, so break out your shaker of Morton’s. But upon consulting one of their very own “Deep Throats,” Destructoid learned of a rather interesting rumor: 2K Games may be developing an MMO set in the Bioshock universe. Now, normally I wouldn’t

World of Warcraft Getting a Graphical Update?

Posted on May 17, 2008

In an interview with EuroGamer, World of Warcraft producer J. Allen Brack stated that eventually there will “probably” be an graphical update for WOW. “Will we need a graphical update from the ground up at some point? Yep, probably. And I’m positive we’ll talk about it next expansion” With the successful graphical revamp Eve Online pulled off back in

Exclusive: Interview with CEO of Masthead Studios: Earthrise

Posted on Apr 24, 2008

I recently had the chance to interview Atanas Atanasov, CEO of Masthead Studios, about the upcoming MMORPG Earthrise. We were also able to bribe Mr. Atanasov into providing us with a new exclusive screenshot of the Eastern Gardens in Earthrise. (right pic) Your son will be returned by midnight. For those of you not familiar

MMO: NASA?

Posted on Jan 17, 2008

It appears that yet another government agency is getting into MMO development (see my previous article). NASA recently announced their intentions to create an MMO aimed at high school and college level education, which would include a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. No specifics have been made as to who will be developing

Eve Online: Trinity Expansion

Posted on Nov 29, 2007

CCP, makers of Eve Online, have announce the date for the Eve Online expansion Trinity as Dec 5th 2007.  The expansion will be free to download and not only include new features and areas, but also a huge graphics update to the game.  I just finished watching the Eve Trailer and it looks awesome, I really wish

World of Warcraft & Eve Online Continue to Grow

Posted on Nov 14, 2007

Today we have two subscription reports coming from Vivendi, publisher for World of Warcraft and CCP Games, the makers of Eve Online. The reports show both games had steady growth in the third quarter, Vivendi reporting that its subscriber base increased from 9 million to 9.3 million with solid sales coming in from the recently released expansion

Tabula Rasa First Impressions

Posted on Nov 05, 2007

After work on Friday and went a picked up a copy of Tabula Rasa. I was excited about the new direction Richard “Lord British” Garriot was taking with this MMOFPS and since I wasn’t playing any MMO at the time, I figured why not. I wish I was writing this with a little more play

One Instance to Rule Them All

Posted on Nov 01, 2007

I’m sure most of you will agree that todays MMORPG are not exactly what you first imagined when you first heard of MMO games. What do you mean I have to pick a server? We all don’t play in the same virtual world? I know I sure didn’t. I had the fantasy that hundreds of