Who doesn’t like the smell of burnt undead in the morning? From shipwreck to dracoliches, this game has everything that anyone who played Dungeons & Dragons might expect from the Forgotten Realms setting and Neverwinter falls solidly into that style of fantasy MMORPG. It’s free-to-play, published by Perfect World Entertainment and developed by Cryptic Studios. We’ve been waiting for this game to arrive for some time and now that the soft-launch and open beta have arrived there’s no disappointment and a lot of praise.

Neverwinter is a very nice looking [...]

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This is the thirteenth match of GameOgre.com’s MMORPG Showdown 7.  This annual tournament determines the best MMORPG out of 16 games. The winner will be named MMORPG of the Year. GameOgre.com also has a Prediction Contest for forum members each year for a $10 Ultimate Game Card (UGC).

Guild Wars 2

Vs.

RaiderZ

The first Semi-final match of this tournament pits two [...]

The fifth season of Ogre Wars has started—beginning on the auspicious date of April 18th—and we at GameOgre would like to invite everyone to join us in this highly-casual (but oddly hardcore) battle of the community across the imaginary land of conquest. Ogre Wars is an HTML-based web game that works a lot like many of those old turn-based games about gathering resources, typing numbers, and clicking buttons. The difference here: you get to joke with your ogre friends about how well or how badly you’re doing.

To properly [...]

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This is the twelfth match of GameOgre.com’s MMORPG Showdown 7.  This annual tournament determines the best MMORPG out of 16 games. The winner will be named MMORPG of the Year. GameOgre.com also has a Prediction Contest for forum members each year for a $10 Ultimate Game Card (UGC).

RuneScape

Vs.

Drakensang

This final match of the second round pits two free browser [...]

Looking for a game that once-again couples the nostalgic 8-bit feel of Minecraft with the balls-busting sensations of Team Fortress 2? Look no further than Jagex Studios’ Ace of Spades—a game that allows players to strap on a guns and a shovel and go at it on highly mutable maps allowing them to dig and construct as bullets fly and rockets explode all around them.

On the surface, AoS is a fairly vanilla first person shooter with very little that would do to set it apart from anything else on the market–perhaps [...]

Many MMO gamers are starting to find the market to be a paralyzing smorgasbord of new and old free-to-play titles appearing almost out of whole cloth in an attempt to cram themselves into the niche. All the while, the real giants of MMO gaming—such as World of Warcraft—still rest inside of shining citadels of steel and subscription as the free-to-play market boils around their battlements. The free-to-play ecology has two things that it should fear: becoming overgrown with shovelware with little-to-no shelf life and the lack of interest [...]

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This is the eleventh match of GameOgre.com’s MMORPG Showdown 7.  This annual tournament determines the best MMORPG out of 16 games. The winner will be named MMORPG of the Year. GameOgre.com also has a Prediction Contest for forum members each year for a $10 Ultimate Game Card (UGC).

Tera: Rising

Vs.

APB Reloaded

This match is noteworthy because it pits [...]

The world is a different place in Syfy Channel’s new TV show Defiance and for the first time ever watchers will be able to insert themselves into the world with an MMO provided by Trion Worlds. As a game, Defiance is a modern MMOTPS with strong RPG and themepark elements delivered by the need to connect the game to the TV show—and we can see that this isn’t totally a bad thing, but it’s led to some design decisions that may make the game less-than-worthy of its [...]

Red 5 Studios has been hard at work on their game Firefall, which is a science fiction shooter with an amazing amount of quality put into it. However, as a game in beta it is demonstrably a work in progress. Red 5 has been carefully keeping the population in check with a beta invite system and while the rendering engine and the game itself are all complete, some of the scaffolding and wires of a product-in-development can clearly be seen.

Over the past six months, Red 5 [...]

Numerous things have come to us from GDC 2013, but what’s got a lot of the MMO sphere curious is the upcoming Bungie title Destiny. I’ve been following this [not]MMO for some time and have been soaking up the scraps and leaks as it goes.

During its panel at GDC Brave New World: New Bungie IP, Bungie released a video full of concept art, character animation, and concepts of what we might expect.

From the video there’s a little bit of what the future will hold for the [...]