Massively weekly highlights: November 5-11
Along with bringing you all the MMO news that's fit to print, we at Massively also strive to bring you a healthy dose of original features. You can always find the complete features collection at massively.joystiq.com/tag/featured, but we'll help you catch anything you might have missed (including the top breaking news posts of the week) in our weekly highlights roundups. Here are the highlights from the week ending November 11:
Breaking news
- We launched!
- NCsoft acquires City of Heroes IP
- Wow patch 2.3 confirmed for November 13
- Hellgate: London works out some subscription issues
- Animal Crossing MMO for Wii confirmed
Regular columns
- Adventures From the Back Row: The cost of healing, by Michael Zenke
- Behind the Curtain: A look at skills, by Craig Withers
- Building a better MMOusetrap: Can you teach old content new tricks?, by Dave Moss
- The Digital Continuum: Don't Fear The Re: Console, by Kyle Horner
- MMOGology: Addiction and you, by Marc Nottke
- Under The Hood: Pseudo-MMOs, Part One, by James Murff
- Under The Hood: Of Titles, Badges, and Achievements, by James Murff
Features
Opinion
- An Elder Scrolls MMO: should they or shouldn't they?, by Chris Chester
- Do world events matter?, by Dave Moss
- How to deal with a "WoW widow" (without going insane), by Kevin Stallard
- The illusion of Second Life government, by Aimee Weber
- Massive games by the Numb3rs: MMOGs on prime-time TV, by Michael Zenke
- Regarding content in virtual worlds: build it, or buy it?, by Akela Talamasca
- Second Life and the powers of ten, by Aimee Weber
Hands-on impressions
- Blue Mars sneak preview, by Barb Dybwad
- First impressions: Dofus, by Eloise Pasteur
- First Impressions: Dungeon Runners, by Akela Talamasca
- First impressions: I Am Legend in Second Life, by Tateru Nino
- The Massively EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer beta tour, by Dan O'Halloran
- The Massively EQ2: Rise of Kunark beta tour, by Dan O'Halloran
- Warhammer Online hands-on, by Barb Dybwad
Interviews
On location
- A visit to NCsoft Austin, by Elizabeth Harper
- Tabula Rasa launches in Austin, Texas, by Elizabeth Harper
Tutorials