Filed under: MMO It seems that NCsoft will be ushering the fairly unsuccessful Tabula Rasa off this mortal coil in a somewhat unorthodox, yet completely awesome fashion. Soon-to-be-retired players won't be popping champagne and mingling during tomorrow's server shut-off festivities -- no, they'll be...

Massively Mutiplayer Online games seem suited to space, which is probably why Eve Online is still around after all these years. Still, Eve is a very particular kind of MMO. The generous would say "thinking man's," which is a nice way of saying it bores you to tears. Hard to imagine that space firefi...

Yeah, just to be different I deliberately avoided the “launches” jokes. Anyway, the MMO blogosphere is a-buzz with the news that Jumpgate Evolution will go live in June. Source is the Codemaster’s site, which simply lists it as “available from June 2009.” So there’...

The upcoming 3.1 update for World of Warcraft brings with it the Ulduar raid dungeon -- an addition that developer Blizzard Entertainment claims is the game's "most ambitious raid to date." The "In Development" section of the European World of Warcraft website is currently playing host to a rundown ...

There are two things everyone needs when the economy's down: free stuff and a lot of laughs. Looks like you can get at least one of those from Secondhand Lands. Secondhand Lands is a fantasy satire MMORPG starring such parodies as the Sugar Prune Fairy, Princess Pwnies of the Apocalypse and cable tr...

In the online game Eve Online we might see a virtual version of what is happening in today’s credit markets. The player-driven economy of EVE Online is a major draw for gamers interested in virtual finance, although for very different reasons; some players enjoy managing vast funds in the game...

A bunch of half-nekkid Korean dudes got their sieg heil on in chilly downtown Seoul to promote Karma II, an MMOFPS (we're doing that abbreviation now? OK). Cue shocked and outraged onlookers? Eh, not really. Instead, once they saw the shirtless fascists (say that five times fast) and the Karma II ba...

Two paragraphs is all the China Daily puts to this topic, so I can't give much context here. But the Chinese government will start "real-name registration" for online game players this year. The item, in the China Daily, also notes that four online game companies had their operations suspended becau...

It seems almost silly to do a “first look” of a free, no active download game…after all, if you’re interested, go sign up and play! But I’m old school, eh? I got about 90 minutes to play Fusion Fall tonight. It was gently amusing, but so far what I’ve seen has bee...

Yesterday I had very little leisure time, and consequently I have nothing to say today. So I thought I’d try something a little different and share my technique for role-playing in MMOs. I’m just not quick-witted enough to role-play in ‘real time’ in games, but I do like to g...