POSTED BY Nemo, 17 December 2007 | PERMALINK

I just saw a new WOW commercial featuring Verne Troyer and I quickly ran through the interwebs looking for it to show it to you loyal fans. Couldn’t find it but I did find international versions that you might want to check out as well. The first one features some Spanish actor that most, if not all, of you will have no idea who he is, but the second one has one of our favorite film action...
POSTED BY Nemo, 13 December 2007 | PERMALINK

Former senior system designer Eric Heimburg made a post in www.eldergame.com stating the many difficulties there are in making an MMO based on the Star Trek universe. Let me first stated that, yes I am not a video game designer or anything that comes close to that, but this post read with defeatist attitude written all over it.
He first complains that they need to make two games, a space...
POSTED BY Nemo, 13 December 2007 | PERMALINK

Well it’s not as evil as it sounds but Auran, the developers of Fury, have filled for bankruptcy and let go most of the people working with Fury. There’s still “a small but committed team to continue developing FURY on an ongoing basis.” So the game will still have content updates and the like. The end of this year looks like its proving that anyone cannot make an MMO out of anything with...
POSTED BY Nemo, 13 December 2007 | PERMALINK

Blizzard really wants the “Biggest MMO in the world” title for their game don’t they ? They are now preparing a Russian version of WoW which will be the fifth European language version of the game. They are going to have to do a lot of hard work to beat the colossus known as Maplestory if they want that MMO crown. Maplestory numbers are tremendous but are not really known because… well...