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”).
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.
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.
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.
Maybe the Pandaren race coming to World of Warcraft isn’t cute enough for you. Or maybe they’re too cute already. Wherever you fall on this crucial issue, there’s one thing you need to know.
Asked straight up most people’s response would be “no, stupid”, especially since it doesn’t have java or flash. Where you or I would see that as an impediment, however, the folks behind Project Triniate see it as a challenge.
The issue of Game Informer packed with info on the newly-announced Elder Scrolls MMO is already in some people’s hands and, well, if you were hoping for a game that was basically Skyrim only with real people, you’re in for one hell of a disappointment.
When Star Wars: The Old Republic became available last October, the big test it faced was showing an ability to pull away players from the World of Warcraft juggernaut. Neither company wants to discuss the tug-of-war in terms of raw numbers, but Blizzard’s developers have admitted to seeing a dip in subscriptions. What about BioWare, then?
Sony has applied for a strange little patent that streamlines the process via which online friends in an MMO can meet up in the real world and become real friends.