Thread: MMORPG Blog

When I first watched the stream where John Smedley, President SOE, announced H1Z1 I was more than a little concerned in the direction the development of the game would take. After my meeting with Adam Clegg, one of the developers working on H1Z1, to discuss development on the Survival Horror MMORPG I have started to believe this game can do well in the genre.



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Behaviour Interactive has announced a new partnership with Nvidia to bring the video card manufacturer's GameWorks to Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade when it launches in 2015.



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Players looking for a steampunk MMO need look no further than Snail Games' Black Gold Online. BGO has officially kicked off its open beta and interested players can head to the site to grab the client to get started.



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On the Monday before E3 Landmark launched a patch that added in swimming and caves to the game. While at E3 I had a chance to catch up with Omeed Dariani, Brand Strategist for the EverQuest franchise, and find out what has been going on recently in the world of Landmark.



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At over 40 hours played, I'm sitting at level 25 (almost 26). I've completed the game's first Adventure, first Dungeon, and partaken in a few rounds of Walatiki Temple PVP. I'm crafting a ton of weapons for Rob and myself via the Weaponsmith trade, rounding out my Tanking and DPS builds, and I'm getting warier and warier about entering the first contested PVP zone around level 30. But the main takeaway? I'm having fun.



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Every Friday, we break down the week's biggest news in the world of roleplaying games and serve it up fresh, all in one place. This week we have our Lion of Lannister meeting Moon Wizards in Destiny, the forty endings of Bioware's Dragon Age: Inquisition culled down to "only a few," and Elite: Dangerous putting Star Citizen to shame. Read on for that and much more!



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MMORPG.com has been given special gift codes for Black Gold Online! These gift codes will give you the Landstrider gift pack which features many cool in game items! Get your gift key now while supplies last!



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Marvel Heroes 2015 has had the thirty fifth hero join the game with the addition of Silver Surfer. Players will be have the classic costume available as well as one immortalized in "Planet Hulk comic, Incredible Hulk #95 Vol. 2 (July 2006)."



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Every game developer loves to talk about putting social into games. Usually this amounts to some token integration with Facebook (shudder) or Twitter from inside the game, or looking for group systems. But to me, what I've been describing in my last two articles as the decline of socialization, really means the loss of ability to form friendships. Friendship means meeting new people in-game, and refers to the surprisingly strong bonds you can form with people inside online games.



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A brand new skin is available for the SMITE god "Ra". Called "Ra'merica", the new skin features a red, white and blue motif and $2.00 of every purchase will be donated to the American Red Cross. Check out the video below to get a look at the Ra'merica skin.



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