Tavelogue Azeroth: The Darkmoon Faire and Patch 4.3 The Hour of Twilight
The Darkmoon Faire had some upgrades come World of Warcraft patch 4.3 and now it has its own island. With the advent of the Hour of Twilight patch, you can now visit the Faire out in their strange recesses–but you can’t fly there–and there’s a great deal of weird things going on.
Get tokens, get shot out of a cannon, have your fortune read.
A lot of things for any anthropologist to get up to.
Star Wars: The Old Republic Gameplay and Impressions
The Star Wars: The Old Republic beta weekend has finally drawn to a close and now there’s a plethora of information spreading across the net about the game. By and large, it looks like the game is pressing the cut scenes and the storytelling very hard.
The game has been described as a “solo MMO” with powerfully excellent voice acting and a strong themepark element. In fact, much of the game feels like it pressures the player to remain solo except for the intermittent “HEROIC” quest.
Also: Lightsabers.
DC Universe Online Goes Free-to-Play, Arrives on Steam’s Doorstep in a Basket
The much-anticipated and mostly successful rival to City of Heroes, DC Universe Online has gone free-to-play and is now available on Steam for download. This is true of the PC version (reviewed on GameOgre here) as well as for those users on the PlayStation Network. The free-to-play version is very similar to the pay-to-play version and free players have a very similar experience except for limitations on number of character slots, bank slots, and inventory—as well as not having access to most trophies.
Access will be tiered between three levels called Free Access, Premium Access, and Legendary Access.
The Premium Access, which stays for the lifetime of the account, is unlocked
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GameOgre: Review of World of Tanks — Go Blow Something Up Already!
Even if you’re not into all-out PvP and tank sim, Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks proceeds with a well-made team-based tank MMO. Plus, if you have any interesting World War II after watching too much History Channel, you might still enjoy this. Kyt Dotson over at GameOgre has reviewed the game for everyone.
Here’s some of the highlights:
World of Tanks is a brilliant free-to-play, arcade-styled, squad-based World War II tank sim MMO game developed and published by Wargaming.net and runs atop the BigWorld MMO Technology suite. Since its debut in North America and Europe on April 12, 2011 it has become something of a sensation among gamers. The game
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GameOgre: Review of Rusty Hearts; Castlevania Meets MMO
For everyone out there who happens to be a fan of Castlevania, there’s a new humorous “vampires, werewolves, fishmen oh-my!” MMO out there called Rusty Hearts. Kyt Dotson over at GameOgre has taken the time out of a busy schedule to up a review about it.
Here’s some of the highlights:
Rusty Hearts is a free-to-play game developed by Stairway Games for Perfect World Entertainment and it represents a different type of 3D brawler reminiscent of Castlevania and stand-up arcade games. Its Gothic-and-comedy feel give it a lot of character and the cell-shaded animé-eqse animation style produces a profoundly different effect than is delivered in any other game
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SiliconANGLE: Free Realms Hits 20M Registered Users
It looks like Sony Online’s Free Realms is doing really well for itself, recently, they’ve hit 20M registered users. According to Kit Dotson over at SiliconANGLE, though, this doesn’t say very much about the overall health of the MMO game:
This may be a wonderful milestone, but it’s still not as useful as the monthly user count. The reason is because Free Realms happens to be a free-to-play MMO, which means that users can fire-and-forget their accounts and it will build their registered user base. Subscription-based MMOs, such as World of Warcraft and RIFT both continue to charge participants whether they play the game or not (thus generating revenue even
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GameOgre: Brawl Busters, a Brawl-Busting MMO by Rock Hippo Beta Key Giveaway
The closed beta for this new creation by Rock Hippo started last week on August 11th and if you want to get your key, you should visit the GameOgre thread on the subject.
Grab your electric guitar, your football helmet, baseball bat, fire hose, or boxing gloves: Brawl Busters is on its way from Rock Hippo Productions and Weezor! In this smash action title, the production house that brought us MicroVolts will bring us a brawl-action combat free-to-play MMO game that will operate from the third-person-shooter angle bring a little bit of Team Fortress to a wacky class system of brawlers. Developed by SkeinGlobe, Brawl Busters has a look and feel reminiscent of MicroVolts but the gameplay diverges from …
GameOgre: WonderKing Online
In a world dominated by 3D MMORPGs, there’s still a few out there that represent the 2D side-scrolling arcade style and one of those is WonderKing Online. If this has you interested,you should check out Kyt Dotson’s review of the MMO over at GameOgre,
WonderKing Online is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling platformer
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GameOgre: World of Tanks First Impressions
Squad-based tank combat and simulation has taken a turn for the better with the recently released game: World of Tanks. Kyt Dotson over at GameOgre has for us a pretty in depth review of World of Tanks and everything that it entails for players, from an examination of the game engine to how the free-to-play freemium mechanic works.
It’s a blue sky over Malinovka as your tank platoon rolls tread over the dying grass, playing a lethal game of cat-and-mouse against the enemy forces hiding amidst the heavy brush. Engines blurt out on all sides as your comrades roll out and you follow in their muddy tracks when the coughing turret-report of an enemy tank signals they’ve sighted us before
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CrimeCraft, a post-apocalyptic powerhouse addition to the MMOFPS RPG Genre
When it comes to MMORPGs most of them seem to cover the click-to-attack paradigm of world interaction. We watch our characters from behind, guide them with the keys, and interact with the world through a series of possible variant talents or acts on an action bar. These include World of Warcrat, City of Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Everquest, to name a few of a very long list. But not all single-player games operate under these rules, MMOs just work well with them; what about first-person-shooters?
Can’t they MMO? Well, it looks like a game like CrimeCraft seems to have done just that.
A review by Kit Dotson over at GameOrgre the game sets it to be the rising star MMOFPS+RPG of
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