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Gamespy's MMO column returns with a look at Battlefield Heroes

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2008-09-05 10:30:00 by Michael Zenke in Massively
...MMO industry , New titles , Free-to-play , MMOFPS Gamespy's excellent ongoing MMO column OnLife has been regrettably on hiatus for some time, but it looks like it is back with a vengeance. Its first column back in the saddle is all about the online free-to-play FPS Battlefield Heroes . While not technically an MMO, author Miguel Lopez notes...
 
Tags: column, mmo, battlefield heroes, heroes, mmo column onlife, mmo column returns, gamespy, mmo industry, strategy game
 
 
 
 
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PAX 2008: Appealing to an MMO Newbie

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2008-09-04 23:00:00 by Xav de Matos in Joystiq
...MMO Worth it or not, to me personally, pay-to-play MMOs always felt like a ridiculous proposition. Paying to play a game I already paid for is like paying $5 to bite into a delicious burger I just got at the drive-through. Still, the genre continues to spawn new titles as proven at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo While many MMO titles were on...
 
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The Daily Grind: What is your MMO soundtrack?

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2008-09-05 08:00:00 by Michael Zenke in Massively
...MMO industry , The Daily Grind We know that you MMO playing folks tend not to listen to the in-game music (which this blogger thinks is a real shame), but you have to be listening to something while you play. Dead silence is pretty darn boring. So, we're wondering what you do to amuse yourself while you're in-game. This blogger splits his...
 
Tags: mmo, daily, daily grind, mmo industry, daily quests, personal mmo soundtrack, in-game, blogger splits, blogger
 
 
 
 
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Hardcore Casual: Breaking down MMO burnout, and ways to avoid it.

2008-06-26 11:46:28 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...MMO veteran burnout, a legitimate concern for anyone hoping to find the next it game to play with friends As someone with a great deal of MMO experience, having played Ultima Online heavily at release and MMO gaming ever since, Ricks post got me thinking about the general idea of MMO burnout. On a somewhat recent podcast, Michael Zenke...
 
Tags: burnout, mmo, mmo gamers, veteran mmo gamers, mmo veteran burnout, mmo burnout, mmo crowd, solid mmo, mmo grind
 
 
 
 
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Breaking down MMO burnout, and ways to avoid it.

2008-06-26 15:46:17 by syncaine in Hardcore Casual
 
...MMO veteran burnout, a legitimate concern for anyone hoping to find the next it game to play with friends As someone with a great deal of MMO experience, having played Ultima Online heavily at release and MMO gaming ever since, Ricks post got me thinking about the general idea of MMO burnout. On a somewhat recent podcast, Michael Zenke...
 
Tags: burnout, mmo, mmo gamers, veteran mmo gamers, mmo veteran burnout, mmo burnout, mmo crowd, solid mmo, mmo grind
 
 
 
 
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Inside Neopets Creators' Ambitious New MMO

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2008-06-30 16:25:58 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...MMO from the creators of Neopets Adam Powell and Donna Williams struck it rich with Neopets , an online virtual-pet site that grew so popular with kids and female gamers that the pair sold their creation to Viacom in 2005 for $160 million. Now, as founders of a startup called Meteor Games , they're working on something markedly different for...
 
Tags: game, in-game items, mmo, final game, simple game, mmo game, flash game similar, 3-d mmo world, world
 
 
 
 
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Interview: Red 5's Paper-RPG Duo On The MMO Persistence Revolution

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2008-08-22 16:00:58 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...MMO fiend Michael Zenke has been talking to some of the folks at Red 5 - recipient of almost $20 million in VC to make what is presumably meant to be a WoW-beating MMO - and they have some interesting, high-level thoughts about persistent online worlds. Can they pull it off? We'll see Ed Stark and Dave Williams are veterans of the tabletop...
 
Tags: world, world experience, mmo, experience, straightforward experience, strong experience, fun experience, world directly, world adapt
 
 
 
 
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Shane Kim on Marvel Universe Online MMO cancellation

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2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Christopher Grant in Joystiq
...MMO During a dinner on Monday night with Microsoft's Shane Kim and Kudo Tsunoda, we got the chance to quiz the former about Microsoft Game Studios' rationale for abandoning Marvel Universe Online MMO . After years in development, the console-bound MMO died a slow and painful (-ly vague) death. The culprit: Kim tells us, "We don't have a...
 
Tags: mmo, kim, shane kim, microsoft, microsoft xbox, mmo-icrosoft hopefuls, mmo space, microsoft game studios, console-bound mmo
 
 
 
 
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Joystiq: Shane Kim on Marvel Universe Online MMO cancellation

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2008-05-15 21:30:38 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...MMO During a dinner on Monday night with Microsoft's Shane Kim and Kudo Tsunoda, we got the chance to quiz the former about Microsoft Game Studios' rationale for abandoning Marvel Universe Online MMO . After years in development, the console-bound MMO died a slow and painful (-ly vague) death. The culprit: Kim tells us, "We don't have a...
 
Tags: mmo, kim, shane kim, microsoft, microsoft xbox, mmo-icrosoft hopefuls, mmo space, microsoft game studios, console-bound mmo
 
 
 
 
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Blizzard On Diablo MMO Hopes, New Franchises And More

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2008-07-07 21:33:06 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer