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| 2001 -12 -02 | MMORPG Spotlight: Meridian 59 A press release by Near Death Studios last week really got some game buzz going. The announcement causing all the talk? Make sure you're sitting down… Near Death Studios has concluded the purchase of Meridian 59, the first 3-D MMORPG, from 3DO. Near Death Studios, founded by former developers of the game, intends to put the Meridian 59 service online and grow the Meridian 59 franchise. ... |
| 2001 -12 -21 | Camelot vs. Asheron: This May Be the Greatest Myth. You’ve scoured the websites reading forum after forum. You may have even broken down and bought both games just to see which is better. So after all the debate, the heated arguments, the powerlevelling, and the dyed clothing a winner has finally emerged……… You! It’s not the classic chicken and egg argument. ... |
| 2001 -12 -25 | What Do We Really Want From DAOC? Done to the Twelve Days of Christmas! Don't miss this wonderful little Christmas ditty by our very own 'Santa Ravenshroud.' If this doesn't get you into the Christmas spirit, nothing will! Take a break, get some eggnog, and read (or sing)! - Twelve Brand New Weapons I have the sword, you have the dagger, he has the bow, and she has the mace. I guess we’re ready. ... |
| 2002 -01 -12 | MMORPG Spotlight: Dragon Empires Imagine a fantasy world of magic with hundreds of lands, where clans fight to survive and to rule magnificent cities spread across five different empires. Now, imagine that these cities that are guarded and controlled by dragons. In the second quarter of 2002, Codemasters is scheduled to introduce this fantastic world to PC MMORPG players. The world of 'Dragon Empires. ... |
| 2002 -04 -07 | The Future Lets look into the future a few years shall we? In the future console gamers are all networked together on their own private network. People are so hungry to make money playing video games they are fighting with companies over selling virtual property, peanuts Competing in online tournaments for cash is the next step. ... |
| 2001 -12 -15 | MMORPG Spotlight: Endless Ages Can four guys working day and night for four years produce a game that is innovative and sophisticated enough to compete in today’s MMORPG market? Well, the gaming world is set to find out in February 2002 when ‘Endless Ages’ is released. Avaria, a company that consists of only four people, is producing Endless Ages. Aaron Boucher is the Founder/Owner and lead programmer. ... |
| 2001 -11 -25 | MMORPG Spotlight: Black Moon Chronicles - Winds of War As you may have already heard, Vircom has delayed the release for this unique, cartoon-based MMORPG until March 2002. In conjunction with this delay, the company has extended a closed beta test period to allow for continued feedback during the push to the final release date. ... |
| 2001 -11 -17 | Mimesis - The Series Mimesis Online’ is not Tannhauser Gate’s only product set in this unique and bizarre patchwork universe. The second such enterprise is ‘Mimesis – the Series’ – a new, fully computer-animated series currently in development. The series focuses on the lives of individuals and small groups, and the role they play in the dramatic events unfolding around them. ... |
| 2001 -11 -11 | MMORPG Spotlight: Fighting Legends If you mix Dr. Seuss, anime, Pokemon, role-playing and real-time strategy game elements and throw them into a persistent online fantasy game, the result still will not quite come close to the bizarreness that is Fighting Legends. The company behind this genre-twister is Maximum Charisma, a newbie to the world of game development with Fighting Legends as their first game product. ... |
| 2001 -10 -29 | MMORPG Spotlight: Mimesis Online Mimesis – An Aristotelian philosophy involving the act of creating a world, a new reality. The inventive and conscious act of creating a potential and objective reality. Mimesis Online – An intriguing new game soon to hit your PC and challenge your preconceived notions of what an MMORPG can be. ... |
| 2001 -10 -28 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 10/22/01 - 10/28/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! Mimesis Online Movies!GamesDomainMimesis Online is a role-playing game which transports you to a world where the borders between reality and illusion do not exist. ... |
| 2001 -10 -28 | MMORPG Spotlight: Lineage the Bloodpledge Quick! Name the most popular MMORPG! If you said EverQuest or Ultima Online or Asheron’s Call, you’re wrong. The most popular persistent online world, with several million subscribers (more than the top three most popular U.S. online games combined), is one that many online gamers know little or nothing about. Online since 1998, Lineage: The Bloodpledge, is a medieval fantasy-type game. ... |
| 2001 -10 -22 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 10/15/01 - 10/21/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. ... |
| 2001 -10 -21 | MMORPG Spotlight: World of Warcraft Can you say WoW? As in “WoW, Blizzard Entertainment’s got a new game in the works!” This game, World of Warcraft, was unveiled in early September 2001 during the European Computer Trade Show in London, England. ... |
| 2001 -10 -15 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 10/08/01 - 10/14/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. ... |
| 2001 -10 -08 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 10/01/01 -10/07/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! Dark Age of Camelot PreviewGamersUplinkDark Age of Camelot, or DAoC as abbreviation crazy RPG veterans have dubbed it, has a great deal of promise. I was given the opportunity for an in-depth look into the beta. ... |
| 2001 -10 -06 | MMORPG Spotlight: Motor City Online Race-Sim fans will be familiar with the ‘Need for Speed’ series of games, which have been big hits in the PC market for some ten years now. Now, the hot-rodders over at EA have come up with an innovative game sure to pull car-racing fans in by the droves. ... |
| 0000 -00 -00 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 9/24/01 - 9/30/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here!] Online Worlds FanFest DetailsOnlineWorldsFanFestGet all the "Who, What, Where, Why" on the Online Worlds FanFest scheduled for October 26th & 27th, 2001, in Austin, TX. ... |
| 0000 -00 -00 | MMORPG Spotlight: WWII Online World War II Online is billed as the “world’s first massive multiplayer simulation/first person shooter.” It’s also reigns supreme as the rockiest game launch to-date in MMOG history. The Playnet servers actually surrendered on opening day! The game was so incomplete out-of-the-box that players had to download a 67 meg (MEG!) patch on release day just to get started. ... |
| 2001 -09 -24 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 9/17/01 - 9/23/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! New Fighting Legends PreviewPC:IGN 18-Sep-2001Preview testing of beta 3 began last Friday and we've been putting the game through the paces. ... |
| 2001 -09 -23 | AC: Diary of a Young Life Mage – Part 1 Come join me as I create and develop a new character in the world of Asheron’s Call! Khimera (what other name would I choose!) is a Life Caster who will hopefully someday become a strong tank Mage – an asset to any fighting group, yet able to hold her own as a solo player. This series of diary articles will track her progress towards this aim during her first ten levels. ... |
| 2001 -09 -17 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 9/09/01 - 9/16/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! Ballerium Q & ASanqualis.com 10-Sep-2001Majorem, a game software company based in Israel, is currently developping a Massive multiplayer Strategy game called Ballerium. ... |
| 2001 -09 -16 | MMORPG Spotlight: Jumpgate Are you ready to fly? Then put on your flight suit, gas up the ship, and get online for the newest MMORPG on the block. Already released in Europe, Jumpgate is due for international release sometime in October. Space jockeys everywhere are waiting to try out this multiplayer space-combat/exploration adventure game for themselves. ... |
| 2001 -09 -10 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 9/03/01 - 9/09/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! New DAOC PreviewFrictionless Insight 03-Sep-2001These are my impressions of Dark Age of Camelot based on my involvement in the beta testing. ... |
| 2001 -09 -09 | MMORPG Spotlight: Dark Age of Camelot Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC), one of this year’s most anticipated MMORPG’s is under development by Mythic Entertainment, with an expected ship date of October 2001. ... |
| 2001 -09 -03 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 8/27/01-9/02/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! EA.Com to Launch UO in Korean Internet Gaming RoomsNorthernLight 27-Aug-2001EA. ... |
| 2001 -09 -02 | MMORPG Spotlight: Shattered Galaxy There’s a new game in town, and it should be in full release by the time this Spotlight is published. Nexon, a well-known name in the Korean game market, has produced several MMOGs in the last few years. Shattered Galaxy is the first MMORPG title in release to embrace RTS, or real-time strategy.The backstory of Shattered Galaxy is intriguing. ... |
| 2001 -08 -27 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 8/20/01-8/26/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! New Mimesis Online Interview Gamerspulse 20-Aug-2001Gamerspulse interviews Piotr Krzywonosiuk from developer Tannhauser Gate about progress on Mimesis. ... |
| 2001 -08 -26 | MMORPG Spotlight: Anarchy Online Anarchy-Online is set on the planet Rubi-Ka (Latin for Red and Dry). A powerful Galactic Mega Corporation called Omni-Tek controls Rubi-Ka, exploiting its natural resources and native peoples. In the last century, rebel clans consisting of natives and ex-Omni-Tek employees have been formed. There are also “Neutrals,” those who claim to support neither side exclusively. ... |
| 2001 -08 -20 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 8/13/01-8/19/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here!Review: Ultima Online - Third DawnPC GamerKudos to Ultima Online for setting more standards for online roleplaying gaming than most fans even know about. ... |
| 2001 -08 -19 | MMORPG Spotlight: EverQuest While Ultima Online was the first MMORPG to become a big commercial success, when EverQuest burst onto the scene with its 3-D game engine and focus on adventuring and questing, it soon surpassed the gaming world’s wildest expectations. Today, EverQuest is the most successful online PC role-playing game in history, with more 375,000 active subscribers. ... |
| 2001 -08 -13 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 8/06/01-8/12/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here!New Game Server to Support Thousands MoreYahoo 06-Aug-2001Zona, Inc. ... |
| 2001 -08 -12 | MMORPG Spotlight: Asheron's Call In 1995, someone filled a residential home with PC's and a group of ten developers started working on what would become Asheron's Call. Second Nature, Turbine's original name, had the principal design goal of making a 3D MUD. ... |
| 2001 -08 -06 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 7/30/01-8/05/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here!New AO Client Patch OutAnarchy-Online.com 29-Jul-01The long awaited 12.3 client patch is out. Read about the changes here. ... |
| 2001 -08 -05 | New MMORPG Release Date Page Added Have an MMORPG you're waiting feverishly for? Need to know how long you'll have to save up your nickels and dimes for the big purchase? MMORPG Cafe has a new feature that will help! Our new 'Projected MMORPG Release Dates' page should have all the info you've been craving. ... |
| 2001 -07 -29 | Weekly MMORPG News Roundup: 7/23/01-7/29/01 Your one stop round-up for all the past week's gaming headlines. If you don't have time to keep up on our daily headlines, you can catch up on all the best MMORPG news right here! Fallen Age On Hold IndefinitelyStomped 27-Jul-2001Netamin's massively multiplayer title Fallen Age has been "placed on hold indefinitely". ... |
| 2001 -07 -28 | Say What? MMORPG Real-time Language Translation A new feature - referred to as "localization" - is about to hit the world of the MMORPG. It won't affect the story lines, but it has the potential to change the games in huge way. Some months ago, Sony Online Entertainment announced that the next EverQuest expansion - EverQuest: Shadows of Luclin - will feature "real-time text translation between English, French, German, Japanese and Korean. ... |
| 2001 -07 -21 | MMORPG Spotlight: Ultima Online They say you always remember your first love, and my first real gaming love was Ultima! Before there was online gaming, there was Ultima. Lord British. Britannia. Be still my heart. I spent hours travelling the countryside of Britannia, learning about virtues, moongates, and magic.I had played other online RPG's - Gemstone II and Hundred Years War on Genie, to name two I can still remember. ... |
| 2001 -07 -04 | Learn the MMORPG Lingo! Are you a newbie to the MMORPG world? Don't know what "newbie" means? Need to know what everyone else is talking about, but you can't figure out the lingo? Check out the new "MMORPG Lingo" link in the right column! Here you'll be able to get a handle on all the gaming expressions you need to know. Following is a preview of what you'll find there... ... |
| 2001 -06 -30 | Welcome to MMORPG Cafe'! What, you ask, is a MMORPG? That's shorthand for "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game", and baby - these games are something else. Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, Everquest… These are more than "games," they're social experiences that have come involve every member of my social circle to some degree. We talk about our game characters as if they were living people. ... |
| 2001 -07 -01 | Maps! Get your MMORPG maps here! You're alone in a strange, new world. Creatures to the right of you. Creatures to the left of you. Where should you go? Where is safety? Where is home? Check out the new "Maps" link in the right column! Here you'll find links to some of the best maps around! Following is a preview of what you'll find there.... ... |
| 2002 -01 -26 | MMORPG Spotlight: Project Entropia Far, far from Earth, the planet Calypso was discovered by an unmanned space probe - launched from Earth many years before. As was its function, the probe left behind robots programmed to prepare Calypso for colonization. The humans should have had an easy time getting settled in once their colonization transport arrived at Calypso. ... |
| 2002 -01 -05 | MMORPG Humor: EverQuest NPC Names Not only is EverQuest a great game for playing, it’s a great game for humor! In case you haven’t noticed, the EQ world is full of an amazing number of NPCs with names that are entertaining and show that the developers have a great sense of humor, and obviously stay up way too late and partake of way too much caffeine. ... |
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By Mythic Entertainment. Set in Europe's mythological past, Camelot incorporates Arthurian legends, Norse mythology, and Irish Celtic lore. Players choose which realm to serve during character creation: noble Albion, brutal Midgard, or mystical Hibernia. Each realm has unique character races and classes, such as elves, trolls, and highlanders. Once chosen, the player's character will serve that realm forever. Once the character has gained in power, he or she will be asked to defend the realm from invasion and to go on raiding parties into other realms. |
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| EverQuest: Shadows of Luclin |
| Prima's Official Strategy Guide is a valuable tool to guide you through this unreal world. Only PRIMA can provide vital maps, strategies, and detailed information on each aspect of the game. |
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