Archive for the ‘MMORPG News’ Category

How the mighty have fallen, 2008 in review

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 14 views

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/31/blood-pact-how-the-mighty-have-fallen-2008-in-review/#continued I wasn't kidding the last time I wrote about the decline of Warlocks in the game. It's pretty palpable in major cities like Dalaran, walking around and seeing a glut of Death Knights crowding the mailbox and only the occasional Warlock summoning her Dreadsteed to cruise the cobblestone streets. ...

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The Year 2008

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 13 views

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/02/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-the-year-2008/#continued At this time last year, I wrote about the launch of The Burning Crusade and rage normalization as the big, defining change in the warrior class. Let there be no mistake. Even two years later I am still furious at rage normalization. I was so angry then that I ...

Taiwan market: GigaMedia to launch HoLiC Online and Warhammer Online

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 17 views

GigaMedia, a provider of broadband Internet-based value-added service and content in Taiwan, will launch HoLiC Onine, a MMORPG (massively multi-player online role-playing game) developed by South Korea-based Mgame, in January 2009, and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR), a MMORPG produced by US-based Electronic Arts (EA), in February 2009, according ...

Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 15 views

Lord of the Rings Online has always lived in the shadow of World of Warcraft, its main competitor. Which is a shame, as LOTRO is an excellent game in its own right. Mines of Moria is the latest addition, and like all expansion packs – especially ones for long-running MMOs – ...

World of Warcraft adds another half million subscribers

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 17 views

World of Warcraft has been available for the Mac since 2004, spawned two expansion packs Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft's subscriber base has reached 11.5 million players worldwide, continuing its reign as the world's most popular multiplayer online role-playing game. The Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard's recently-released expansion ...

Amazing WoTLK-themed Zippo - Entire Hand-planted By Fans

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 24 views

Of course we konw many enthusiastic WoW players have made a great number of all kinds of game-themed extras of WoW. But this time, you will see an amazing WoW lighter entire hand-planted by fans and the whole crafting process. One Chinese WoW players post his whole crafting process of his WotLK-themed ...

Bluepost: Account Management Page Issues

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 24 views

Burst damage in Arenas Totally agree that the matches like you are describing can involve a lot of skill. But we also heard from plenty of players during the heydey of maxed out resilience that they felt like they couldn't compete because pure damage dealing wasn't of much use in an ...