The Syndicate demo will be out for Xbox Live Gold users on 31st Jan (tomorrow) and PSN on 1st Feb. EA gave us a hands-on preview with the co-op mode. It’s good. Real good. I imagine it would be a bloody nightmare if you play with online randomers. The Western Europe map that will be available is 4-player co-op and [...]
It’s Spring (nearly) and with it come thoughts of cleaning or at least thoughts of other people cleaning. To try and get in to the spirit of the moment I decided to have a bit of a rummage around on my PC and maybe organise it a little. This tends to involve randomly deleting anything that looks messy (i.e. not [...]
Bioware and LucasArts have announced on both their twitter feed and website a change to the release date of their highly anticipated MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game will now launch worldwide on the 20th December 2011, with the European release date having been pushed forward 2 days.
NCSoft announced their new MMO during Gamescom, Wildstar. I spoke to Executive Producer Jeremy Gaffney, who is aiming to build the deepest richest MMO experience to date. He claims that Wildstar will let you play the game how YOU want to. Bold claims and not the only MMO at the show to make the same boast. Still, given that Carbine [...]
Since I first had a look at World of Tanks and interviewed its project manager – Alexander Shilyaev – earlier on this year, a war has been developing within this tank based MMO. Masses of people have been logging onto the World of Tanks servers and set a new record of 155,000 concurrent players on a Russian server. This is [...]
Following on from my popular World of Tanks – Open Beta Launched And First Impressions post I got the chance to ask the World of Tank’s project manager – Alexander Shilaev – a number of questions about the game, including the hot topic of tank SPG’s (self propelled guns). When will users be able to customize their tanks via personal [...]
Bioware have released this latest clip from one of the flashpoints from Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). In a nutshell, flashpoints are story driven missions where your choices make a difference to the enemies you fight and the outcome of the flashpoint. You can also repeat flashpoints as often as you wish and they contain some of the best [...]
World of Tanks started its open beta a few days ago, so now everyone can experience what tank warfare is like. If you like tank games then World of Tanks is going to be right up your street. It’s a team-based massively multiplayer online action game dedicated entirely to tanks. There are no infantry, aircarft or any other tools of [...]
With the PS3 version of DC Universe Online ready to drop into stores this week, it will be interesting to see whether the MMO subscription model can actually be a success on a home console. PS3 users take for granted the fact that they can play an online game for free, so the price of the ongoing subscription needed to [...]
After a rather long wait to get into the game, I am pleased to say I was pleasantly surprised. Been playing with a old gaming colleague Azik… he’s well impressed, which is something since all he’s really done is say every game is not EQ1 since we stopped playing back in 2003. The character creation is flexible, but does not [...]
We’ve been running a competition to give away a bunch of beta keys for the upcoming MMO, Rift: Planes of Telara over the past few days. I love the anecdotes that you guys are telling about your MMO experiences. Here are excerpts from three of my favourite stories submitted. Click the links to see the full tales: Pants tell a [...]
We'd like to welcome our newest writer to The Average Gamer, Richard Gwilliam. In 2000 Kirth, aka Richard Gwilliam, discovered the internet and Everquest while studying. This lead to EQ2, the required WoW, AoC, Eve, WAR, Vanguard, GW and a lot of free games in between. Not just an MMOer, he can also be found blowing things up in the wilderness that is Fallout 3, stealth killing in Assassins Creed or trying to complete God of War trilogy, all on the PS3. Richard covers the changing funding models used across MMOs and asks if freemium is future.
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