In Real Life

Chinese Idol In Movie About Chinese Gaming Adolescence

Zhao Yihuan, best known as the Chinese Dairy Queen girl, has been making the rounds lately to promote her latest movie Qing Chunqi 3 (青春期3 which roughly translated is “Puberty 3″). While the primary focus of her latest media push has been on her movie, Zhao is also using her movie to promote the new Chinese MMO game Taoyuan (桃园 or “Peach Garden”).


May 25, 2012
PC

Can Rift’s Player-Versus-Player Revamp Save It From The Oncoming Storm?

Trion World’s MMO rift has done well enough for itself, but with Tera underway and The Secret World and Guild Wars 2 looming, they’ve got to be feeling some heat. Can the newly revamped three-faction Conquest system keep folks playing?


May 24, 2012
PC

Tera MMO Log Part 2, Supplemental: Look At All That Rested XP

The plan was to spend a series of four consecutive weeks playing En Masse Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game Tera, reporting back every week leading up to the final review. Then all hell broke loose.


PC

Giant Bosses And Big Swords, Check Out This Chinese MMORPG

Sure, the title God Slayer sounds like the Japanese game God Eater (which is a bit like Monster Hunter, so whatever). This Chinese developed MMORPG runs on the CryEngine 3, and the physics look slightly off in places. But maybe it’s fun — who knows. I do like the boss fight in the above trailer.


May 23, 2012
PC

Marvel Heroes’ First Gameplay Trailer Features Wolverine, Black Widow And Deadpool

After a long time fighting secret development wars, Gazillion Entertainment is finally letting the world look at the massive multiplayer online game featuring dozens — maybe even hundreds — of Marvel Comics characters.


PC

Next Star Wars: The Old Republic Takes The Pain Out Of Finding People To Play With

Now that the massive 1.2 update for Star Wars: The Old Republic is behind us, it’s time for BioWare to start winning back those 400,000 lost subscribers with some oft-requested features.


May 19, 2012
PC

A First Look At The Kingdoms Of Amalur Studio’s New MMO

While they may be having their share of financial problems lately, but the Kingdoms of Amalur creators 38 Studios are still working on new games.


May 17, 2012
PC

Tera MMO Log Part 2: An Axe To Grind

Having spent a couple of weeks in the exiled world of Arborea in the delicate boots of a pretty pink Sorcerer, for my second MMO log I decided to take the long, strange trip to mid-level madness in something a little more sturdy.


May 14, 2012
PC

Star Trek Online Developer Admits The Game’s PvP Sucks

While being forthright with his community about the woeful state of Star Trek Online‘s player-versus-player combat, a developer at Cryptic Studios also admitted to something of a self-fulfilling prophecy: PvP in the game is so bad, no one’s participating in it. Participation is so low that the studio has seriously considered removing PvP altogether.