Middle-earth Online Name Change
Thursday April 28, 2005
According to posts made in a thread on the Asheron's Call Forums, Middle-earth Online is changing its name to Lord of the Rings Online. No word of this yet on ... Read More
Guild Wars Info
Thursday April 28, 2005
Guild Wars went gold this week, and the official launch is set for April 28th. ArenaNet has posted answers to 12 of the most common pre-release questions on their site. ... Read More
Asheron's Call News
Tuesday April 26, 2005
Turbine made a couple of announcements this week pertaining to expansions for Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2. The bad news is that Throne of Destiny, an expansion for the ... Read More
MMOGs as Education
Tuesday April 26, 2005
The proceedings of a presentation on the educational possibilities of virtual worlds is now available online. They use Second Life to demonstrate a variety of ways in which these emerging ... Read More
New Game Comic Debuts
Friday April 22, 2005
Our Nintendo Guide, Aaron Stanton, has joined forces with artist Noah Kroese to create a new video game comic. "Twoplayer is a weekly video game comic strip; we pick on ... Read More
Sony to Start Secure Auction for EQ 2 Items
Wednesday April 20, 2005
Sony has decided to get into the business of auctioning online game items for real money; something they have discouraged their users from doing on sites like eBay in the ... Read More
World of Warcraft Patch 1.4
Tuesday April 19, 2005
Blizzard has updated World of Warcraft to version 1.4 with today's patch, which introduces the PvP honor system and several new content features. There are patch notes on the official ... Read More
Dark and Light Screenshots
Monday April 18, 2005
MMORPG.com has put up some new screenshots of Dark and Light. The terrain looks nice and the world appears to be enormous. The game is currently in beta testing and ... Read More
Pariah Multiplayer Demo
Friday April 15, 2005
A multiplayer demo of Digital Extremes' new Unreal engine powered FPS is now available. Pariah is expected to ship to stores in May. The demo includes three maps so you ... Read More
Changing Laws for Online Gambling
Wednesday April 13, 2005
A recent ruling by the World Trade Organization may result in regulation of online gambling in the U.S. similar to that of the United Kingdom. "Last week, the British Parliament ... Read More
World of Warcraft Review
Tuesday April 12, 2005
No game has done more to make MMORPG a household word in North America than World of Warcraft (WoW). Since its launch in Nov. 2004, the game has been breaking ... Read More
PlayNC Store Opens
Tuesday April 12, 2005
If you prefer to buy your games online and download them, your options are growing. NCsoft just kicked-off their new PlayNC Store, where you can purchase and download Lineage 2, ... Read More
Guild Wars Trailer
Monday April 11, 2005
Gearing up for the game's debut on April 28th, ArenaNet and NCsoft have released a new cinematic trailer for Guild Wars. Those who pre-order this competitive online RPG will be ... Read More
Battle For Middle-earth Patch Plans
Saturday April 9, 2005
The official The Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle-earth site has been updated with news about the upcoming patch (1.02) for the game. Unfortunately, it has been delayed until ... Read More
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault Review
Friday April 8, 2005
The latest addition to the popular Medal of Honor series takes the first-person action into the Pacific theater of operations. Fierce infantry combat is a given in a title like ... Read More
D&D Online Alpha Test
Thursday April 7, 2005
Turbine has started taking applications for the alpha test of Dungeons & Dragons Online. If you aren't a DDO forum member yet, you'll need to join before you can sign-up ... Read More
Cornering the WoW Market
Wednesday April 6, 2005
There's an interesting discussion on the World of Warcraft Forum about two players who recently bought every item in the action house on the Elune server, simply to turn around ... Read More
Cross-platform MMOG for Next XBox?
Tuesday April 5, 2005
Team XBox has an interview with the producer of Huxley, which will be a massively multiplayer first-person shooter for the next version of the XBox. Apparently the game is being ... Read More
MUDs Persevere
Tuesday April 5, 2005
Games with shiny graphics certainly get most of the attention these days, but there are still a lot of gamers who prefer the depth and rich storylines of text-based multi-user ... Read More

