Star Trek Online launched back in 2010 as a paid box with an ongoing monthly subscription, but nowadays it’s a free download with no additional fees required. The game has a cash shop but also offers a monthly gold membership as well as a lifetime subscription. Gold members pay $12.99 a month and get an extra … Continue reading Star Trek Online Cheap Account Upgrade →

I guess I just don’t get Kickstarter. On the one hand you have people with significant industry experience who actually have a working prototype, and on the other you have these guys. I think if Eric has another go he should concentrate more on selling the overall game experience to potential players rather than shining … Continue reading Project Gorgon Kickstarter Unsuccessful →

One of the cool things I like in Maiden Desmodus is how you can recruit and train troops and then assemble them into squads before marching them around the game world to take control of different areas. The troops can’t be attacked like regular NPCs but can be battled with other military units in a … Continue reading Mass Warfare in MMOs →

Bigpoint publish over 70 online games including quite a few MMO titles, most notably Dark Orbit, Battlestar Galactica Online and the upcoming Game of Thrones MMO. Bigpoint are currently developing a free-to-play MMO based on the HBO series A Game of Thrones Bigpoint are currently developing a free-to-play MMO based on the HBO series A … Continue reading Bigpoint, Oh Dear… →

It doesn't look like Kingdoms of Amalur was successful enough to save 38 Studios A quick recap; in 2010 38 Studios relocated to Rhode Island in order to take advantage of a $75 million loan backed by the State economic development fund and this month defaulted on the repayments amid reports that staff hadn’t been … Continue reading The Trouble with 38 Studios →

I was wondering how long before the Kickstarter bubble bursts and now we have the less than edifying spectacle of a studio with AAA pretensions scrabbling around for funding for a tech demo. Goblinworks are using Kickstarter to "fund" their Pathfinder Online technology demo. Yep that’s right, it’s not the actual game they want funding … Continue reading Kickstart your MMO →

The game is provisionally titled Arturem Online and it’s going to be an online multiplayer 3D graphical virtual world. I’m deliberately not calling it an MMO because the concept is more multiplayer than massively multiplayer. What I want to do is focus on some of the more niche gameplay areas like role-playing, politics and PvP … Continue reading New Game Project: Arturem Online →

After deciding to finally level a character to 80 in World of Warcraft (I’ve had an account that I’ve played off and on for a few years) I’ve been experiencing the pain of running Wrath of the Lich King instances using the dungeon finder. As great as the instances themselves are, the whole experience is … Continue reading Dungeon Finder Woes in WoW →