How Free-to-Play is RIFT?

March 5th, 2015

RIFT, the free-to-play-ness of which will be tested with this instalment of our F2Pmeter, is an F2P fantasy-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was originally launched by Trion Worlds in 2011 with a monetarisation model exclusively based on subscriptions, but switched to free-to-play in June 2013. We therefore thought it was high time to […]

Gigantic to Launch on Xbox One and Windows 10

March 5th, 2015

Motiga has just communicated their partnership with Microsoft in order to bring Gigantic to Windows 10 and Xbox One. Available later this year (free of charge for Xbox Live Memberships owners), their latest F2P 3-D action MOBA game will feature cross-platform gameplay while the partnership allows Mortiga to access testing/ QA infrastructure for both platforms. […]

Elite: Dangerous Coming to Xbox One

March 5th, 2015

During this year’s GDC, Frontier Developments have announced  that Elite: Dangerous will launch on Xbox One this year, including all content added to the PC version by February’s Community Goals content update and March’s Wings content update – available for free next week on PC. In case you don’t know this title, Elite: Dangerous is the third […]

Magic Duels: Origins Announced

March 5th, 2015

With Magic Duels: Origins, Wizards of the Coast have just revealed the successor to their Duels of the Planeswalkers franchise. This new F2P game is supposed to be globally released in July for PC (available via Steam), as well as iPad tablets and Xbox One. A PS4 version is planned for later this year. Launching […]

Things You Would Change with Rift

March 4th, 2015

The newest instalment of our Things You Would Change with… series is dedicated to Trion World‘s fantasy MMO RPG RIFT, which was originally launched in 2011 and only just received its latest expansion Nightmare Tide, which is RIFT’s 2nd expansion. When doing this kind of article, we normally have a quite extensive list of issues to […]

Imagining a Pokemon MMO

March 4th, 2015

Today, we’re bringing the 2nd instalment of our “Imagining MMOs” series. We just wanted to do this again, since it was extremely fascinating last time to make up an imaginary Harry Potter MMO game. This time, we’re going to imagine and design a different kind of online game, which would utterly become a hit. Are […]

Tribal Wars Introduces Mentor System

March 4th, 2015

Today, the original Tribal Wars title receives a new game feature aiming at assigning a veteran player to novices in order to assist them in learning and assimilating competitive play. In this context, InnoGames has released a new trailer explaining the mentoring system, which you may check out further below. The all-new system determines and matches […]

Shifu Gets Content Update

March 4th, 2015

Today, Shifu, 37Games’ Kung Fu-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game receives its latest update, which introduces 2 new features: the beast soul awaken pill as well as the soul of mount system. Starting today, player will be able to use ingots once their mount reaches rank 6 in order to awaken the beast soul hiding […]

Hands-On with Club Cooee

March 3rd, 2015

RATING: Overall: NR Pro: Excellent to meet new friends. Great for chat-lovers. Con: As in real-life, some people are crazy. With those of us who were already into online games between 1996 and 2001, Mplayer.com will probably ring a bell. Besides being an open chat room service, this PC gaming community also allowed users to […]

TERA Item Bundle Giveaway

March 3rd, 2015

Today we’re hosting a giveaway for the NA version of TERA. In case you’re playing on a North American server, you should definitely leap at your chance and claim your gift. And just in case you missed out on the article on the new Sky Cruiser Endeavor dunegons and the Skycastle housing system that we […]

Tokens Arrive to World of Warcraft

March 3rd, 2015

World of Warcraft is about to introduce a new in-game item that will allow players to securely exchange gold and game time between each other. Called WoW Token, it’s been designed to offer players with lots of extra gold and the option to use it to cover their monthly fee costs and give those who […]

M&M Heroes Online PvP Tournament Starts Today

March 2nd, 2015

Ubisoft has just announced the beginning of the first official PvP tournament in the history of Might & Magic Heroes Online. Titled “Champions of Ashan”, the tournament will run through the entire month and see participants put their skills to a test in fierce player versus player fights as they compete for very special prizes. […]

Chaos Gameplay Commentary Video

March 2nd, 2015

We’ve lately dedicated some of our time for checking out Joybit‘s browser-based F2P RPG Chaos, in which rages the traditional fight between good and evil and players are taking on the role of the future hero of the realm who is called forth to the forefront. This story-driven action role-playing game combines modern-day religion with […]

How Free-to-Play is EverQuest II?

March 2nd, 2015

The next candidate for our F2Pmeter is EverQuest II, an iconic fantasy-based MMO RPG that switched to F2P at the end of 2011 after being subscription-based since its original launch in November 2004. Before continuing reading this F2Pmeter instalment, you might be interested in having another look at the first look gameplay commentary on EQ […]

Crowfall Reaches the Kickstarter Sky in 72 hours

March 2nd, 2015

Crowfall has amassed more than $800,000 in pledges within three days of launching a crowfunding campaign on Kickstarter. In less than 72 hours and with more than 8,000 backers, the MMO game has become the second most popular project. But the campaign isn’t over, it will continue for another 27 days. The game, in development […]

Summoner’s Legion Gameplay Commentary

February 27th, 2015

Today we bring you a Gameplay Commentary video of Summoner’s Legion, the new fantasy themed free to play browser card collecting MMO from R2 Games in which we will have to gather cards to form a deck that we will use to fight tactical battles against AI enemies and real players. The game does not […]

Skyforge Moves Forward

February 27th, 2015

My.com has announced that on March 11 Skyforge will begin its first closed beta, in addition they have presented the three different Founder’s Packs (now available for purchase), and they have published a brand new trailer. This first closed beta will last a week, and will allow us to test several game systems, both PvE […]

The 5 Classes of Echo of Soul

February 27th, 2015

Aeria Games has unveiled today the five classes that we can embody in his next free MMORPG, Echo of Soul (which is going to be released this spring). And we’ve discovered an interesting fact, there won’t be healers. The 5 classes are: Warrior, Archer, Rogue, Guardian and Sorceress. Each class has two specializations that further […]

New Camera system Coming to Guild Wars 2

February 26th, 2015

Changes are coming to the camera system in Guild Wars 2 with the next content update, slated to go live on March 10. Long-desired by fans, this update will introduce the option to use first-person POV in-game. The studio will be giving players a first glimpse of how the new system works tomorrow through Twitch. […]

Nosgoth Launches a New Class

February 26th, 2015

A new class, the Vanguard has arrived to Nosgoth, being the second class that the game receives since it began its open beta. This human class is equipped with a wide variety of thrown weapons and an imposing shield that can block all frontal attacks, reducing their effectiveness in 90% and ignoring additional effects like […]

War Thunder Releases Massive Update

February 25th, 2015

With its newest update ‘Big Guns’, War Thunder today receives additional aircraft, new armoured vehicles and in-game items as well as visual improvements, map enhancements and deformable terrain. Big Guns introduces the largest vehicles of the 2nd world war: the super-heavy tank, Pz.Kpfw.VIII Maus weighing an unbelievable 188 tons and the formidable bomber B29 Superfortress, […]

TERA Gets Huge Content Update

February 25th, 2015

En Masse today provides TERA players with a massive content update which includes new 5-player dungeons, a 5vs5 PvP arena, new rewards as well as the new crusade system and player housing. The company also released an all-new trailer in this context, which you’ll be able to find further below. At the outset, we want […]