Tag Archives: mmo

TV company on the hunt for MMO players who met their true love online

A TV production firm is putting together a documentary about video games, and it’s not a negative one. In fact, Back2Back productions is producing a show that looks at people who fell in love, got married and started families via the likes of World of Warcraft and Second Life. The …

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Ultima Forever to terminate this month

EA has said that iOS MMO title Ultima Forever will be permanently shut down on August 29th. This was a very difficult decision for us to make,” a statement read. We’ve seen the game through ups and downs, and hope that you’ve enjoyed playing it every bit as much as …

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MMO title Neverwinter confirmed for Xbox One

City of Heroes and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios’ free-to-play MMO outing Neverwinter is coming to Xbox One. The game was mentioned yesterday as a launch title for Xbox One in China. Eurogamer notes that the official press release for the game mentions ‘consoles’ in the plural several times, …

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Final Fantasy XIV tech director leaves Square Enix

Square Enix’s chief technology officer Yoshihisa Hashimoto has left the publisher for ‘personal reasons’. Game Watch reports via Siliconera that Hashimoto was also the tech director of once troubled MMO Final Fantasy XIV and manager of Square Enix’s Advanced Technology Division. He’d been at the company since 2009 having joined …

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Guild Wars 2 sells 3.8m copies in China

ArenaNet’s recent Guild Wars 2 launch in China has doubled the game’s sales worldwide. Games Industry reports the NCSoft-published MMO has sold 3.8m copies in its first two months within the region. Phenomenal numbers, considering the title had sold just 3.5m a year after the game launched in multiple territories …

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‘More games should become free-to-play,’ suggests Trion Worlds CEO

The CEO of Trion Worlds has said that more titles should considering adopting a free-to-pay model, as paying upfront for games becomes harder to justify. If there’s one thing we’re learned through all of our own prior development, it’s that the barrier of having to purchase a thing before getting …

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VIDEO: New Elite: Dangerous trailer released

Galactic MMO Elite: Dangerous has emerged from E3 with a new trailer. Frontier Developments showcased the new trailer, which offers a detailed look at the gameplay in Elite: Dangerous. The footage shows off the open-world gameplay of Elite: Dangerous as players board their spacecraft and head out into the vast …

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VIDEO: New Destiny trailer gives more story details

Activision has released a new trailer for its upcoming MMO FPS title Destiny. The video – entitled New Beginnings – was shown during last night’s Sony conference. It sheds more light on the title’s narrative and the backstory of in-game character The Traveller as well as showing off some gameplay. …

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