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Permadeath And Other Players Make Wizardry Online One Hardcore MMO
Last week I openly wondered how Wizardry Online, a massively multiplayer online game, could possibly capture the spirit of the original grid-based first-person dungeon crawler that stole my heart so many years ago. The answer, I found during a quick hands-on session with the game last week, is tension. The tension that comes of knowing…
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted Through This Haunting English Countryside
The idea behind Sir, You Are Being Hunted is, well, exactly what it sounds like. Man’s greatest enemy is man. That’s something we see in quite a few games, really. Mostly they have guns in them.
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The Secret World’s Lead Designer Leads Me Straight Into Hell
In room 13 of the Overlook Motel on the scenic Savage Coast of New England there’s a doorway that leads directly to hell. If I had to sum up the setting for Funcom’s massively multiplayer supernatural roleplaying game The Secret World in one sentence, that would probably be it.
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Bring On Shootmania, A Shooter Without Guns
Red guys fight blue guys in what may be one of the more ambitious games on the horizon, the goofily named Shootmania. It’s a heavily moddable shooter from the people who made DIY racing sensation Trackmania and are even cooking up a modern-day RPG Maker called Questmani.