First Impression: Dungeon Overlord, the HARDCORE Facebook Strategy MMO
You read that right. Night Owl Games has made a game it proclaims to be the first hardcore Facebook game to date. Frankly, after playing it since PAX Prime this […]
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Rusty Hearts Bring Side-scrolling Beat-em Ups to the F2P Market
iTZKooPA chats up producer Mark Hill about Rusty Hearts, one of two titles coming this year from Perfect World Entertainment. The interview discusses the title’s tight narrative, content plans, balance, […]
Premium Services, Market Discrimination, and the Cross-Server RealID Invite
Everyone and their dog has an opinion on “premium” services in WoW. There are some people that feel that because WoW charges a monthly fee, it is unethical to charge […]
Patch 4.2 Firelands Raid Official Preview
Yesterday’s videos were only the beginning of Blizzard’s Patch 4.2 coverage. According to Bashiok, here’s the line-up for the next few days: 4/28 “The Firelands” Raid Preview “A Legendary Engagement” […]
WoW’s Next Dungeon in Patch 4.1.11 — The Tomb of Immortal Darkness
Get ready to quake with fear. World of Warcraft developers have introduced the next dungeon we’ll be taking stabs at — in the dark — for Patch 4.1.11. Blizzard introduces […]
Ghostcrawler on Balancing Raid Progression and Nerfs
Taking up a subject that can be a point of contention among World of Warcraft raiders, Ghostcrawler (aka lead systems designer Greg Street) posted an interesting commentary on raiding progression, […]
The Dungeon Finder: Why Use iLvl to Benchmark?
Previously, we looked at some features the Dungeon Finder could benefit from. This time, we’ll muse about how players qualify for queueing for difficult dungeons. For Cataclysm dungeons, the game […]
The Dungeon Finder: Improving Queueing
Last time, we looked at the current state of the dungeon finder and vote-to-kick. How could some of the abuses and problems with the dungeon finder and vote-to-kick be fixed? […]