The Daily Recap
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Should CoX fans be scared of Champions? Central Nexus has a good question up about the eventual release of Champions Online and its effect on CoX fans. NCSoft has built up a nice little niche subgenre with City of Heroes and Villains, and despite a false start with MUO, Cryptic is now planning to invade that space and try to steal back some of their former audience. |
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Sky News targets sexual ageplay in Second Life again Sky's Five News reporter Jason Farrell who broke the Wonderland Scandal last year, has been back in Second Life with a young girl avatar, and hooked up with an adult avatar for sex at another site created by the creators of the now-removed Wonderland. |
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The Daily Grind: Which game has the best admins? In-game admins (or GMs, if you prefer): they get us unstuck, they deal with bigots on the chat-channels, remove spammers, listen to us whine, look into problems and more ... |
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Comparing subscriptions and microtransactions made easy While asking for subscription payments is still a popular business model for MMOs, increasingly it's just one option among many. Free-to-play, ad supported, microtransactions, and even straight Real Money Transfers are all being used as viable methods to get people in and playing. |
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Turning numbers into creativity with a new WAR dev diary We usually don't think about the fact that our favorite MMOs have mountains of numbers and formulas behind all the eye candy, making everything work smoothly. If you've ever wondered just how EA Mythic (or any other developer for that matter) makes all the inherent numbers/formulas in their games into unique creativeness, then this new developer diary is just for you. |