Project would require fan support, rights from EA
American McGee Wednesday asked fans if they'd support a third Alice game, provided he's able to get the rights from EA.
True believers, I present an MMO worth your consideration.
I love super heroes and I love video games so naturally whenever there is a combination of the two, I get excited. Though the results aren’t always favorable, there are a host of games that do our heroes justice. MMOs on the other hand have been a different beast, mainly hitting their stride a few years back with City of Heroes. Last year, DC took their chances in the MMO space with DC Universe Online, which has had decent success. While that game operates much like you would expect, Marvel has enlisted Gazillion Entertainment to helm their super powered MMO. Headed by Diablo creator David Brevick, Marvel Heroes combines elements from dungeon crawlers like Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and the Diablo franchise to create something that has the potential to be great.
EverQuest Online Adventures among the titles going down.
Sony Online Entertainment has announced it is taking down four MMOs from the last generation. EverQuest Online Adventures, Cosmic Rift, Star Chamber and Infantry will be no more on March 29, 2012. To help with the transition, SOE is offering players of EverQuest Online Adventures a 3 month Gold Membership to EverQuest and EverQuest II starting March 16th.
The 3.0 Update brings a new business model
NCsoft's MMO Aion is going free-to-play this Spring. Although already announced in Europe, this is news to American players. The upcoming 3.0 update, entitled Aion Ascension, will introduce the new business model. The free-to-play model won't limit the areas players can visit or classes available, unlike most free MMOs.
Free to Play? Make it so.
Cryptic Studios has announced that Star Trek Online will become free to play on January 17, 2011. This model has proved to be quite successful as Cryptic Studios' other MMO Champions Online has gone this route as well earlier this year.
The Beta will start early next month
G4TV is reporting that Hi-Rez Studios has set a release date for the Beta of Tribes: Ascend, a free-to-play first person shooter. The beta will be released on November 4, 2011. In order to get into the beta, players can apply for a beta key on the Tribes: Ascend website, get a code from the game's Facebook and Twitter pages, or pre-order the game.
Since the release of the game, Valve has occasionally made it free for short spurts of time, but now it's free for good.
In a recent interview with Develop-Online, Robin Walker of Valve revealed that Team Fortress 2 will now be a free-to-play title. According to Walker, for almost a year, the team has been toying with the idea. Data from periods where the game was made free for a limited time convinced Valve that " TF2 would be more successful as a completely free product.”
