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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
A few days ago, the MMO blogging world burned with the news that rock star MMO developer turned lonely exile, Brad McQuaid, had returned from his lonely, sparse existence of playing video games, racing cars and sports bikes and feeling sorry about the harsh hand life dealt him to urge people to play more Vanguard. … Read more
Hudson wanted a look at the Aion UI — and that’s fair. I found out that Aion was built on the Crytek engine, and that implies it won’t “run on a toaster”, the famous boast Blizzard made about WoW. Just before I took this screen shot, it started raining in game. My character looked with … Read more
Aion is not an innovative MMO. Anybody will tell you that. You have your quest hubs with quest givers who task you with killing everything in the vicinity. Classes start off with four archetypes (scout, mage, priest, and warrior) and split at level 10 into eight subclasses (ranger, assassin, chanter[shaman], cleric, gladiator[berserker], templar[paladin], spiritmaster[mage pet … Read more
Re: this message from Wizard 101, the extended downtime might possibly have something to do with pushing Grizzleheim to the test server, but who knows? Wizard101 Extended Maintenance Wizard101 the game will be offline for maintenance for an extended period of time. From 3am to 7am Central US time, on June 17 2009, Wizard101 the … Read more
I was a little surprised to see that my character from Florensia’s open beta last year was still around, though naturally I’d entirely forgotten how to play her. To get back up to speed, I put my Saint (healer) aside and started a new character, an Explorer (ranged dps specializing in guns). The very detailed … Read more