Neilie Johnson / Neilie Johnson is a freelance contributor to MMORPG.com. She's been writing about games since 2005, developing games since 2002, and playing them since the dawn of time. OK not really, but she's pretty sure she's got controllers older than you. Witness her game-related OCD on Twitter @bmunchausen.
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Gazillion's touting the recent addition of Iceman as evidence of its attentiveness to community requests and as such, has made him available via the Iceman Hero Pack.
Free-to-play horror MMO Requiem: Rise of the Reaver this week announced its availability for download on Steam in hopes of expanding its audience.
Dragon Nest Europe is upping the ante for high level players by adding the Black Dragon Nest, the most difficult raid in existence at the current level cap.
At this week's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, freemium publisher Kabam showed its latest project, a soon-to-be-released fantasy action-RPG called Spirit Lords. Afew hours playing the Spirit Lords beta revealed that it's a vivid and humorous dungeon crawler that successfully combines traditional role-playing mechanics with the quick-play sensibilities of mobile games.
The fast-growing MOBA genre is becoming increasingly competitive, and that means MOBA makers have to keep the changes coming fast and furious. Here's a smattering of this week's MOBA updates.
Spacetime Studios knows how to make hit mobile games and now they're hoping their expertise helps them raise new MOBA, Call of Champions, to the same level of success.
Wargaming this week announced the arrival of new update, Imperial Steel, on World of Tanks, Xbox 360 Edition. The update lets players advance through the Japanese tech tree and pit wits against each other on new map, "Sacred Valley."
Players or Warp Portal's cute fantasy MMO Rose Online will "soon" (the date is TBD) enjoy an update that brings them to Sikuku Underground Prison and the Dark Sewers to fight purveyors of evil like Battle Executor Ul'gath, Dark Shaman Ranka and Gloopy (wha...?).
This week MOBA card game Heroes Charge announced its plans to reveal a range of new content at next week's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. Within the content drop will be a new mage, tank, and support hero as well as a new dungeon and game mode.
This week, UK publisher Bundle Stars set out to get hopeful game devs on the path to Indie greatness by offering up to 86% off RPG Maker software, as well as 12 commercial games made with RPG Maker and more than 60 DLCs.
This March 6-8, Boston will once again open its arms to PAX East, and this year PC system integrator MAINGEAR will be on hand to showcase its most drool-worthy PC gaming setups.
At a preview event in downtown San Francisco, Bandai Namco Games and Hungarian developer Primal Game Studio revealed their current collaboration—a sci-fi MOBA called Supernova. The game, currently in its alpha stage, contains some predictably rough edges, but from what I saw at the event, it looks to be a more strategic kind of MOBA.
With the release of fantasy MMO Skyforge looming, the game's development director, Eric DeMilt took to the web this week to talk about the effort Obsidian's gone to recently to transition to closed beta.
As of February 21, Pathfinder Online released the Early Enrollment 4.1 and along with that update, a range of new deployable structures.
A new sci-fi MMO has emerged from the Norwegian development company, Fifth Season AS - a game that hopes to change the way MMO players look at web-based games.