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BioWare Bets Big With The Old Republic

On December 20, BioWare will release "Star Wars: The Old Republic," its most ambitious project yet. Bigger than all of its previous games combined, it could be a monumental success--or a titanic failure.READ»

The First Bank of Blizzard: Are Virtual Currencies The Next Safe Havens?

Now that a major online role-playing company has effectively created a functioning market for in-game currencies, gold farming is going to become a viable part of the global economy.READ»

Why are so many MMORPGs using Bit Torrent now?

For as long as I can remember, Bit Torrent has been a tool used by pirates to illicitly ‘acquire’ music and movies. Just recently though, over the last year or so, Bit Torrent has grown to become one of the primary download ...READ»

Fantasy MMORPGs – Is it time for a change?

Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Quite the mouthful, isn’t it? Due to the staggering amount of these game types in today’s world, we simply refer to them as MMORPGs now, as there is little in the way of ...READ»

Western Gaming Companies Should Make More Free MMORPGs

It seems today that most  ’Free MMORPGs’ and ‘Free MMOs’ are developed in places like Korea, Japan and China. What I’d like to know is why more western companies aren’t jumping on the ‘free to play’ bandwagon ...READ»

Make Pay to Play MMORPGs Free

Anyone here remember Tabula Rasa? It was the aspiring sci-fi MMORPG by Richard Gariott that was released in October 2007 with high hopes, but unfortunately the game is now scheduled to close all North American operations on ...READ»

New MMORPG Concepts

It seems like even though a lot of new free MMORPGs and MMOs are being released every month, none of them really feel unique. Except of course for a few exceptions like MLB Dugout Heroes and Dungeon Party there really aren’t any ...READ»

Free MMORPGs – A Tough Market

Even though there’s a new free MMORPG coming out every month, it’s an incredibly tough market. There just aren’t enough players to populate all of the MMOs on the market. So what does that mean? Well, some MMORPGs are going ...READ»

Where’s the MMO in MMORPG?

I must have ranted about this before, but I dislike it a lot when I play an MMORPG with a low or medium playerbase. MMORPGs are supposed to be massively multiplayer. I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words massively ...READ»

Where’s the MMO in MMORPG?

I must have ranted about this before, but I dislike it a lot when I play an MMORPG with a low or medium playerbase. MMORPGs are supposed to be massively multiplayer. I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words massively ...READ»

MMORPGs Need Better Quests

MMORPG developers have gotten way too lazy when it comes to designing quests. Almost every single quest in any MMORPG involves either role playing as a FedEx driver [Take this item and give it to an NPC named John Thunderhoof ...READ»

New Free to Play MMORPGs Rock

After playing two of the most recent free to play MMORPGs to hit the market, Dragonica and Dungeons & Dragons Online, I am yet again impressed by the quality of free to play games. Free MMORPG games are just getting better and ...READ»

Are Free to Play games better than pay to play ones?

For a long time, pay to play games like World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online were considered untouchable, but as it stands the MMORPG market is evolving. More and more free MMORPG games are being released every week while only ...READ»

MMORPG Rant – Give us More Unique Games!

Ever since the free MMORPG / MMO market exploded, the gaming market has been flooded with new titles. There is literally a new MMORPG coming out every month now, but even with all of these new games being released, only a handful ...READ»

Multiple MMORPG Publishers publishing the same game?

Why is it that more than one MMORPG game publisher publishes the same game? It doesn’t make any sense. Games like Nostale for example are available in the United States through two different publishers. Players can sign up for ...READ»

Too Many Free MMORPGs

Honestly, I think the free to play MMORPG game market is growing way too fast. It seems like every month a n ambitious new game publisher opens its doors for the first time in hopes of making it big in a market overflowing with ...READ»