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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Cuppy of Areae (why isn’t this Area E? That would sound so much cooler…) posted some Metaplace wallpaper. Their game engine is built around 2D art assets (think Super Nintendo games in your browser), and presumably, their world-y reference MMO will be as well. Lessee… from the wallpaper… what can we guess about their game… … Read more
Shut Up, We’re Talking! #12 is up. I had the pleasure of being part of it, along with Grimwell (SOE EQ2 Community Manager) and Tom-Tom from Gamer’s Mind. Thanks, Darren, for being such an awesome host! Darren really knows how to keep the discussion going and moving to interesting places. I was positive I’d have … Read more
Syncaine over at Hardcore Casual thinks EQ2 is “flat, boring and lifeless”, and as examples, puts up some rather poor EQ2 screenshots (which he got from the official site so you’d expect better, though I suspect he got at least one of them from a player-submitted shot). Sure enough, in comparison, EQ2 suffers. Well, comparing … Read more
One of the draws EQ2 has for all of us old EQ players is the nostalgia, especially for those of us who were there from the beginning. It’s hard to overstate just the kind of impact Kunark had on us all. Never before and very rarely since had a company so completely matched an expansion … Read more
I don’t know whether to thank JoBildo or not for sending me a Mythos beta key just when I’d resubscribed to Dungeon Runners. Both are point-and-click kill fests, but where Dungeon Runners takes the Diablo 2 formula a little toward the MMO world, Mythos unashamedly brings the legendary dungeon hack to the present day. I … Read more