It’s been a few years since EVE Online developer CCP merged
with pen and paper RPG gaming company White Wolf, and at this years
Grand Masquerade (an event for White Wolf’s World of Darkness property)
more details have been given about the upcoming World of Darkness MMO.
When Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning first launched, it was the big contender to take Blizzards prized MMORPG World of Warcraft down from its throne as the world’s (Or atleast the western world’s) most popular MMO. Despite its excellent setting, PVP focus and cool mechanics like public questing, Warhammer Online failed to challenge Blizzard’s massive online game. Since then, Warhammer Online has been on a steady decline as the playerbase continued to dwindle, both due to the lack of new content and the lack of a community around the game. In a push to renew the popularity of the game, EA and Bioware Mythic are revamping the game and changing it from a subscription based massively multiplayer online role playing game to a free to play battleground game somewhere between Bloodlines Champions and World of Warcraft’s Battlegrounds.
Dragon Age 2 just announced its newest batch of story-based DLC. Bioware is beginning to wrap up Hawke’s story and before we know it, it will be time for Dragon Age 3. Many fans of the first game didn’t care for the sequel, in fact, Dragon Age 2 was widely considered to be the ever-reliable Bioware’s first goof. Too much focus on action and a simplified interface for the console crowd were often cited as problems with the sequel, but Bioware has always been known for delivering terrific stories in addition to their excellent gameplay.
About a month ago, one of the original creators of the PC at IBM declared
the PC is doomed. Yesterday, Microsoft showed off its latest child,
which is still in development: Windows 8.
Windows 8 is the new tablet OS that is taking dead aim at the Apple
iPad 2, which is pretty much slaying all of the Android competition.
Where Apple’s success has been based mainly on the very large collection
of apps, Windows 8 looks to incorporate the best things of iOS and make
it better.
So you’re all farmed out on Famville. Your digital coveralls are faded
and worn and you’ve tilled enough cyber-soil to last you a lifetime.
Now you’re left wanting a new experience. Come to think of it, you’ve
been waiting for a new adventure game. Did you know Zynga already has
you covered?
If you’re the person who hasn’t played Portal yet, you no longer have any excuse to not understand references to “The Cake Is A Lie” because Valve is putting the game up for grabs. Thanks to a generous grant from the fine philanthropists at Aperture Science (America’s leading manufacturer of military shower curtains/ Quantum Tunneling Devices) Valve will let anyone download a copy of the game for free for a limited time.
