MMO Clerks

Filed under: Second Life, Free-to-play, Browser, Casual, Home, Whirled
There seems be an endless tide of online games and virtual worlds being made available to us, with more always on the way. Some of them are well-known and need little introduction, such as Second Life, Playstation Home, and Facebook games, to name just a few. But there’s plenty more out there, some of which falls into the standard ‘MMO’ category, although it’s a label that we find is steadily blurring as time goes on. Darren Gladstone, Senior Writer at PC World, has put together “The Social Gaming Guide” for his Casual Friday column. In it he explores some of the mainstays of social gaming…
Continue reading Expanding choices in social gaming and Flash MMOs
Expanding choices in social gaming and Flash MMOs originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
 
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Original post by James Egan

Along with ‘legitimate’ means of preservation, there’s the whole specter of abandonware, which Les Chapelle takes a look at over at the Escapist.
Chapelle takes a look at the legal issues, but the…

Original post by Maggie Greene

Ripten dug out of a Spanish PlayStation blog that little tidbit above — that Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief and Ryu are inbound for LittleBigPlanet. Rumor has it they’re gonna be available for download…

Original post by Owen Good

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Warhammer Online, One Shots
A dark and stormy night, just perfect for causing chaos and destruction in Warhammer Online! Today’s One Shots shows off this sinister vista sent in to us from Massively regular ScytheNoire, who snapped this picture while playing Warhammer Online. Sadly, we have no description that was sent along to go along with this one, so we’ll simply allow the picture to speak for itself and let you figure out a good story to set against this eerie backdrop.One Shots needs more screenshots from our readers, so if you’re playing an MMO, gather up some screens and send those to us here at oneshots AT…
One Shots: Twas a dark and stormy night originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
 
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Original post by Krystalle Voecks

Ian Bogost and his students have a new project underway looking at the intersection of journalism and games; their new blog is full of interesting stuff.
This week saw a thought-provoking post on…

Original post by Maggie Greene

If you only got $20, or the gamer on your gift list already has everything, or if you want to give a less-than-serious gamer friend something cool without obligating them to 420 hours of Resistance…

Original post by Owen Good

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Exploits, Game mechanics, MMO industry, PvE, Opinion, Legal
You’ve encountered them before. Those guys. Them. Next to the ISK spammers, they’re a plague within EVE Online.They have gibberish names and sit in ice belts all day in exhumers, macro controlling large mining operations. At the first sign of trouble they gang warp out to safety. Or they’re automating courier missions in an endless procession of macro’ed industrials, day in and day out. Or they’re part of the infinite army of 0.0 ratting Ravens that automatically warp to a safespot and cloak once someone enters the system. They’re all in China, right? The macros are all used by large ISK…
Continue reading Confessions of an EVE Online macro’er
Confessions of an EVE Online macro’er originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
 
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Original post by James Egan

We reported yesterday that Amazon was selling Sonic Unleashed at a discounted price.  But (mentioned in our update) the deal is effectively over, as Amazon has run out of stock.
Good news for those wanting a decent price for Sonic’s latest adventure, and you live in the UK, as Asda has some pretty great prices for the game.
All the versions for the game have had their prices slashed.  Plus they are still in stock, and there is free shipping too!:

Wii – £24.41
Xbox 360 – £29.93
PS2 – £12.91
PS3 – £29.91

[Source: Asda Via Segatastic]

Original post by Graham

In the interest of getting some news to you in a slow cycle, let’s start Sunday with a chatter roundup. Here are three things that enough people are blabbing about in the video game blogosphere that…

Original post by Owen Good

Filed under: Screenshots, New titles, News items, Star Trek Online
Three new screens for Star Trek Online have surfaced and they look quite amazing, especially the dry dock shot above, which you can click on to see a bigger version. The first thing that jumped out at us when looking at these shots are that the graphics engine for the game has already come along a ways. We can’t quite put our finger on it, but things are starting to look decidedly more Star Trek and less, well, Champions Online.If it’s one thing we’ve continually learned about MMOs in-development, it’s that they always look better and better the closer to get to launch. And with Cryptic’s…
New Star Trek Online screens look better than ever originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
 
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Original post by Kyle Horner