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China’s Online Games Just Keep Getting Better
12013 seems to be a great year for China’s online video game market with the release of some pretty cool online games. Deviating more and more from the standard click and grind RPG format, Chinese game companies have been pumping out interesting and visually appealing games, foreign and domestically developed alike.
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Crowd Control Is A Real MMO Problem, And WildStar Has The Solution
Maybe there is something to this whole WildStar being subscription-based MMO thing. Every time I turn around, the folks at Carbine Studios are rolling out some incredibly fresh idea, like a “Disarm” skill that makes you have to run after your weapon. It’s sorcery! Let’s see how the game handles other annoying forms of crowd…
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What Sets Apart Wildstar’s Combat? Aiming. And Exploding Space Goats.
Carbine Studios’ latest DevSpeak details what combat will look like in their upcoming animated movie-esque MMORPG, Wildstar — specifically, how its Free Form Targeting system works, which lets you take precise control of all attacks, ranged or otherwise. Also included: the fiery death of dozens of innocent animals.
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Fine Art: The Works Of NCSoft Artist Park Jong Won
Park Jong Won is a Korean concept artist who currently works for NCSoft, the MMO giant behind games like Lineage, Aion and Guild Wars. The art you’ll see below are my favourite pieces from his portfolio, because, to me, they’re the covers to books I’ve never read, but if I saw them staring back at…