Yesterday on Massively: November 27, 2007
Tuesday's gone and we're past another maintenance day. It was quite a good day for news around the MMO multiverse, though, with lots of great info from many different games. Just in case you decided to step out and check out the graphics in that Real Life game we keep hearing about, here's the headlines.
Features
- The Daily Grind: How many MMOs?
- Massively's Top 5 Sci-Fi MMOs
- A first look at RuneScape
- Cinemassively: WoW IRL
- One Shots: It's an epidemic!
General news
- Financial bigwig says virtual worlds leading digital currency charge
- GameTribe talks microtransactions versus the subscription model
- Korean game companies losing dominance over Chinese market
- Tabula Rasa Rage nerf, free respec for all
- Voodoo Extreme's MMO of the year poll
- NCsoft denies leaving the games market
- Make your own FFXI dungeons, Fan Fest recap
- MMO security irresponsibly bad, experts claim
- Arden released to the public
- BioWare likes WoW but thinks it can do better
- Richard Bartle, Jessica Mulligan impart industry wisdom
- SGW dev interrogated by Jaffa, reveals combat secrets
- LNLBT back in business in Second Life
Lord of the Rings Online
- Turbine apologizes for downtime with gifts
- Angmar's Hill-people are the focus of a new Lorebook entry
- Ten Ton Hammer demystifies the Forsaken Inn
Fury
- Fury's one month newsletter, preview of new content
- Fury added to the Electronic Sports League in Europe
- Fury announces Age of the Chosen content update
Discussion
- Lore and storytelling in the MMO genre
- USB Optiwind Mouse: A mouse that really blows
- The value of old games (or lack thereof)
- Game length in MMOs and elsewhere