MMORPG.com Writer Carolyn Koh is attending this year's, modified, E3. Yesterday, Carolyn attended a session with NCsoft that saw her make her way through all of the games that they were displaying. In this article, Carolyn fills us in on Dungeon Runners, what's new and why the game was created.

"Wheee! Hack! Slash! Hack! Wheee!" That was editor Jon Wood's impression of Dungeon Runners from E3 2006 and this still sums up what Dungeon Runners is all about - a fast paced, casual hack and slash, dungeon crawling mmorpg.

Lead Designer Mark Tucker and Associate Producer Tommy Lieberman greeted us early this first day of E3. Mark was in a caffeine induced perky mood as he talked about this game and its origins. According to Mark, NCSoft was looking at the alternative pricing model and did a, "Hmmm.... We can do this! What have we got that we could use?"

Read the whole overveiw here.

Awesome great Caro!

I know, I bash staff a lot lately with crude comments.  But I can also be nice, sometimes!  I really have to try DR soon...as soon as my month sub ends for CoV and I am done with Civ IV next expansion, this IS the next MMO I try!  

Nice article, sums up DR pretty well.  Just thought I'd mention that there is a price to respec your characters stats. Dunno if it scales with level, but it'll cost about 60k gold around lvl 29 for me to respec.  Skill swapouts are free and can be done anywhere though.   Well back to the random slaughter in some foul stinkin' horrific dungeon of legend.

-Make sure you're playing it on XP and not Vista. There's a bad memory leak associated somewhere with Vista and Tech Support shrugged it off 'cause it's not on their list of supported OS's.

- There is no trade function. All trading is done by going off in a corner and dropping your stuff on the ground and hoping it gets to whoever you want it to. And you can't drop money.

-Stackable potions only stack up to 5. Warp scrolls do not stack.  Your inventory is a 12x8 grid and most of the loot takes up anywhere from 2x2, 2x3 or 2x4 slots; causing a few impromptu town runs from time to time.

That being said... It's a fun game to be played when you're waiting on the server to come back online from a patch or whatever. All skills, both passive and active, are available to be purchased once you are of the required level allowing you to change classes whenever you're in town by swapping out your passives.

Townston's Warrior trainer would like to give you this advice: "If, of course, you come across anything big.... Run"