MMORPG

10.04.10

Blizzard Entertainment will unleash one of the biggest PC games of 2010 just in time for Christmas. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the highly anticipated third expansion for the world's most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7 and Macintosh at a suggested retail price of $40 and will also be offered as a digital download from the Blizzard Store. A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items will be available exclusively in retail stores for a suggested retail price of $80. Check out this exclusive video interview with Blizzard Entertainment’s Frank Pierce below.

09.25.10

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios, the game company behind Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, has executed a lease for an office building in downtown Providence and will relocate the company’s headquarters to One Empire Plaza. 38 Studios, which was based in Massachusetts, has chosen this unique location to initiate and create a Rhode Island video game cluster. Schilling talks about his first MMO game in this exclusive video interview.

09.20.10

Just in time for the new season of the hit computer-animated TV series on Cartoon Network, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, a free-to-play family-friendly online virtual world from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and LucasArts is now available to play at www.CloneWarsAdventures.com. Clone Wars Adventures is an action-packed browser-based virtual world where fans can battle alongside their favorite Star Wars characters like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Ahsoka Tano. Check out this exclusive video interview from Sony’s Fan Faire event in Las Vegas.

09.09.10

Seattle – One of the big games of 2010 is readying for a global release and offering PC fans a head start on exploring the new world. The PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIV won’t ship until March 2011. With the latest role-playing epic set to launch September 30, Square Enix’ Sage Sundi and Yasu Kurosawa talk about Final Fantasy XIV in this exclusive video interview from PAX Prime 2010.

08.31.10

HAMBURG -- After almost two years in development and a $2.5 million budget, Bigpoint is bringing a 3D open world game to the free-to-play, browser-based business model. Poisonville officially went live during GamesCom 2010 in Cologne. The Hamburg-based developer and publisher's latest 3D action MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) sets new standards in the browser-game industry. The game’s producer disccuses the new game in this exclusive video interview from the publisher’s global headquarters in Hamburg.

08.31.10

 While a Wonder Woman movie remains in development limbo, fans are about to see a lot more of DC Comics’ scantily-clad superhero in Sony Online Entertainment’s new PlayStation 3 and PC game, DC Universe Online. Players will be able to play alongside Wonder Woman in the new game, which also features superheroes like Batman and Superman. Acclaimed DC Comics artist Jim Lee talks about Wonder Woman and the rest of the cast of the new MMO in this exclusive video interview.

08.24.10
COLOGNE -- Trion Worlds showed that its one of the major players in the massively-multiplayer online space at GamesCom 2010 with its huge booth, which was packed with gamers. The game publisher featured playable versions of its first two MMO games, the role-playing game Rift: Planes of Telara and the real-time strategy game End of Nations. Trion Worlds CEO and founder Lars Butler talks about these two games and what his game company is infusing new to the MMO space in this exclusive video interview.
08.21.10

 

COLOGNE – Star Wars was everywhere at GamesCom 2010 in Germany. LucasArts showcased Lego Star Wars III and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 at Activision’s booth, while Star Wars: The Old Republic was at Electronic Arts’ massive hall. And Sony Online Entertainment had Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures on display.

 

08.21.10
Disney’s World of Cars Online, featuring the voices of Cheech Marin and Jenifer Lewis, revs into a very successful Disney Online. According to recently released data from comScore Media Metrix, Disney Online, the No. 1 ranked community-family and parenting destination on the Web, reached a record-breaking 36 million unique visitors in July, beating the previous all-time record of 34 million uniques set in June 2009 by two million unique visitors.
08.07.10

SAN DIEGO – Jim Lee wears three hats in the comic book world. He’s founder of Wildstorm Productions, which makes videogame comics like Gears of War, he’s co-publisher of DC Comics and he’s executive creative director for Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online game. Lee was on hand at Comic Con to reveal the story that propels the new game into an adventure that will be chronicled in both the MMO game and a new comic book series.

08.05.10

SAN DIEGO -- Marv Wolfman is old enough to have been playing games from their inception. After spending a career writing stories for popular DC Comics characters, Wolfman has been putting his gaming expertise to good use as the writer behind Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online. Of course, he still writes comics, including the God of War comic based on Sony’s popular game franchise. Wolfman talks about his love of games and his latest project in this exclusive interview.

08.02.10

Following the announcement of their highly anticipated role-playing game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, 38 Studios visionaries Curt Schilling and R. A. Salvatore will be at Gen Con Indy 2010 on Friday, August 6, greeting attendees and giving away Reckoning t-shirts created exclusively for the conference.  Salvatore talks exclusively about the new game in this video interview.

07.31.10

With more than 130 million registered users, Bigpoint is hardly a newcomer to the games industry, but they may be new to you. Bigpoint is a developer, online games publisher and content provider for media groups including USA Network, MTV and AOL. CEO Heiko Hubertz, who recently established a U.S. office in San Francisco, talks about the new hub for development and U.S. operations and the role Hollywood licensed games like Battlestar Galactica Online and The Mummy will play moving forward in this exclusive interview.

07.27.10

Atari and renowned MMO developer Cryptic Studios announced the availability of Season Two: Ancient Enemies, the latest content update for the Star Trek Online universe. Season Two: Ancient Enemies is available at no additional cost to current Star Trek Online players. Actor Zachary Quinto , who will reprise his role as Spock in Star Trek II, talks about the new MMO game, which he also stars in.