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Anti-Aliased: Final Fantasy XIV is a good, good thing
Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Opinion, Consoles, Anti-Aliased, Final Fantasy XIV So, unless you've been under a rock, you probably heard Sony squeeing in...
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Anti-Aliased: Final Fantasy XIV is a good, good thing pt. 2
Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Opinion, Consoles, Anti-Aliased, Final Fantasy XIV The real beauty of all of this is that a Final Fantasy game is never truly a...
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The Daily Grind: What news makes you excited and happy about a game?
Filed under: Culture, News items, Opinion, The Daily Grind We'll freely admit that yesterday's Daily Grind was a bit... how should we say it... pessimistic. Certainly MMOs and their associated industry...
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A Mild-Mannered Reporter: All the community news that's fit to print
Filed under: Culture, Forums, Game mechanics, Lore, Opinion, A Mild-Mannered Reporter In a city marked by constant alien invasions, assaults from an island controlled by a sadistic villain, rampant...
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A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Riddle me this, riddle me that
Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Classes, Game mechanics, Opinion, A Mild-Mannered Reporter We've all heard the repeated statement that there are no stupid questions. This is...
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A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Gonna be the future soon
Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Expansions, Game mechanics, Opinion, A Mild-Mannered Reporter This week's listening, if you by some chance didn't catch it, will be from the...
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Hiromichi Tanaka interview discusses the Final Fantasy online installments
Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Game mechanics, Interviews, Patches, Previews, News items, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV There's a lot of material coming up for Final Fantasy XIV. So much, in...
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Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars Galaxies 2
Filed under: Sci-fi, New titles, Opinion, Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Hyperspace Beacon It happens all the time: When a new game is coming out we attempt to compare it to something...
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The Perfect Ten: Sequelitis
Filed under: EverQuest II, Lineage 2, Neocron 2, Sword of the New World, Guild Wars 2, Everquest Online Adventures, Humor, Final Fantasy XIV, DUST 514, Vindictus, EverQuest Next, Perfect Ten,...
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The Game Archaeologist and the What Ifs: Ultima Worlds Online: Origin
Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Ultima Online, Humor, The Game Archaeologist Two months ago, we heard a rumor (which has since gone quiet) that a new Ultima Online sequel might be in the oven in...
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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The highlights
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Classes, Expansions, The Game Archaeologist MMO sequels are funny animals. Sequels (along with prequels and "reimaginings") are ingrained into the entertainment...
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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The fansite managers
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist, Post-Apocalyptic Back when I covered Asheron's Call for The Game Archaeologist, I got an impassioned email from a former...
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The Daily Grind: Are MMO sequels doomed to fail?
Filed under: Business models, MMO industry, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous Massively's Justin Olivetti has been covering the late great Asheron's Call 2 in this month's Game Archaeologist...
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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The former dev
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Expansions, MMO industry, The Game Archaeologist I've been a long-time follower of Eric Heimburg on his blog, Elder Game, where he and a friend have spent years...
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A Mild-Mannered Reporter: City of Heroes 2
Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Culture, New titles, Opinion, Free-to-play, A Mild-Mannered Reporter Before the comments light up, I'm just going to say outright that City of...
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The Daily Grind: Would you leave your current MMO for its sequel?
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Guild Wars, MMO industry, Opinion, Guild Wars 2, Free-to-play, The Daily Grind, EverQuest Next, Miscellaneous With Guild Wars 2 in the offing, long-time...
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Warren Spector envisions two more Disney Epic Mickey games
In the ongoing media blitz that Disney Epic Mickey (yes, it's really still named that) has been receiving over the past few weeks, the game's creative head Warren Spector has been decidedly candid....
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Riccitiello: Mirror's Edge deserves second chance, EA still pushing new IP
EA CEO John Riccitiello told IndustryGamers that the company has no intention of reducing its reliance on new IP. "Does this mean EA is backing away from investing in quality and innovation?"...
View ArticleA tale of two iPhone sequels: Zenonia 2 and Raging Thunder 2
It looks like 2010 will be the year of the iPhone game sequels -- we first saw Zen Bound 2 the other day and now Touch Arcade has news of two more sequels to popular iPhone games. Zenonia 2 brings...
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Obsidian Entertainment: Playing in other people's worlds
Obsidian Entertainment has no shortage of street cred -- its founders originally created Interplay's Black Isle Studios, and put together some of the most classic PC RPGs around, including the...
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