With the Blood Moon event for Champions Online well underway, Ten Ton Hammer reviews the good and bad of Cryptic’s first holiday themed event. In addition, the Blood Moon event also represents...
Exploring the importance of story in today’s MMOGs
The importance of story in an MMOG is different for every gamer. Some like feeling as though tales within a game have been custom crafted for them, while others are content with an overall...
Cryptic’s
Champions Online
is a hectic-paced game.
There’s no doubt
about that. And amid all the chaos on your screen, you might find it
hard to organize and keep up with your fellow heroes...
A Critical Analysis of Crafting in Champions Online
Crafting has become an integral part of MMOGs in the last few years. Hated and beloved, Crafting is here to stay. Some games do it better than others. Our question is how does crafting in...
Things I wish had been in Champions Online at launch
With Champions Online’s launch behind us, it seems like a good time to look back and reflect on what could, and maybe should, have been present in the game at launch. Keep your burning torches...
Is there a right and a wrong way to play Champions Online?
Since the dawn of MMO-time, there have been two types of players: The Min-Maxers and the Conceptual Creators. The Min-Maxer likes to run daily-spreadsheets and TPS reports to find the most...
Do holiday themed events take away resources for new content in games such as CO?
Holiday themed events have become a staple in MMOGs in recent years, but can new games, such as Champions Online, afford to divert the resources that can be used to create permanent content to...
The subject of reviewing videogames has long been a touchy subject among the hobby’s fans. More than console or standalone titles, MMOGs are extremely tricky beasts to review. There are around...
It is the battle of the year! Not unlike the brutal November when EverQuest II and World of Warcraft duked it out all those years ago (hmm..wonder who won that one?), now Champions Online and Aion...
There
has been an interesting evolutionary process at work behind the
MMOG industry’s rising success stretching all the way back to
the late 1990s when the first few titles that pioneered...
A brief overview of the Champions setting and the Omega-class supervillains who would see it destroyed
For
many MMO gamers, the lore and back-story of a given title can be
equally as immersive as the game itself. To help you prepare for the
September 1st launch of Champions Online,
Reuben...
Developing quality PvP for any MMO game isn't a bed of roses, but
there's a huge possibility that - if done right - a quality PvP
experience could bring in a large batch of users for the title....
There is no argument SOE's DC Universe Online has a lot going for it including the recent discussion of Solomon Grundy. However, the world of superhero MMO games is still relatively young with...
Geek news site Newsarama.com has posted their "9 Games to Watch in 2009" list, which included two MMOs that we've gotten to know fairly well in the last few months: