Welcome to another fascinating collection of reviews by Wukung!

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Posted by Wukung on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

The new Star Wars MMO on the block, Star Wars: The Old Republic, certainly looks to be a breath of fresh air into the franchise after the fall of Star Wars Galaxies. The MMO seems to be a ways from release yet, but let’s take a look at what has already been announced:

Factions and Classes
There have been confirmed to be two sides, the Republic and the Sith Empire. Each side will have unique classes, available only to that faction, with 4 to a side. Each of these classes will also feature a branching path along their progression, allowing characters to change the fundamental way a class operates. More info is available here and here.

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Posted by Conot on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

Battlefield 3 Launch Party is a premier powergaming LAN event. Better than all the rest, they tell us, with a platinum package that includes EVERYTHING for just $49.

Everything, that is, as long as you have a Y chromosome.

I would like to add an inciteful commentary to this but honestly, the only words I can come up with are “What the fuck?” [More...]

Posted by Taymar on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

Bohemia Interactive, the developers of Armed Assault 2 (AKA ARMA 2), recently released ARMA 2 for free in a limited form. This was to celebrate the announcement of their sequel , ARMA 3, at E3. The download link can be found at Arma 2: Free.

You have to endure reduced features: you can’t able to play the single-player campaign or use the higher graphics settings. Despite this, it’s still one of the best tactical shooters for free. ARMA 2 is one of the most comprehensive and popular realistic shooters, featuring multiplayer. On top of it all, there is the Armory, where you can try out weapons, vehicles and wildlife in a series of missions.

There’s also an Editor, which allows you to set up your own missions to test. From the very simple situation of two soldiers facing off, to creating whole missions with waypoints and triggers. The Mission Editor is both simple to use, with hidden depths for those who wish to use them.

The multi-player offers a wide variety of servers. These run different game-modes, from the widely-acclaimed mod Domination, which allows players to run missions against AI units. There is also the odder CLife mod, which allows players to play as civilians and cops. Civilians try to make as much money as possible, and cops trying to stop any illegal proceedings.

Posted by Conot on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

There might only be four classes in the recently re-released Free2Play MMO Global Agenda, but each one of those classes has a huge ability for variety as a result of the skill trees. This can completely change how a class is played. In this article, I will explore a few of the different branches.

A point worth making is that you can mix and match from these trees as much as you like with no actual need for you to invest one way or another, other than the requirement of some skills to have a minimum amount of points in a specific tree. [More...]

Posted by Conot on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

For a long time, the only free items you could get on Steam were demos and videos. Totally free games were generally a non-entity on the distribution platform. Recently however Steam launched six Free2Play games on the service, including its own wildly popular Team Fortress 2, among others. This could herald a new era for Steam, where MMOs and other free games find their own spot among what some call the best digital distribution platform on the PC. Here’s a quick summary of what each of these games is.

Global Agenda (MMOFPS)

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I have a real-world quest. I have this chest. Well, it’s really more of a cupboard. But it’s old and wooden and full of something unknown, which we all know means treasure, right?

This is the treasure cupboard: [More...]

Posted by Taymar on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

Welcome to another fascinating collection of reviews by Wukung. This is a great selection of games and also includes a look at a Razer game controller. Previous games reviewed this year include Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Dead Space 2, Kill Zone 3, Little Big Planet 2, Deathsmiles, Bulletstorm, and Dragon Age 2. [More...]

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Maybe everyone has already seen this series of Flash puzzle games but I’ve only just seen it as the result of a post on Making Light of all places.

Alice is Dead takes place in Wonderland but things are not as they should be. Alice is dead and it’s up to you to make your way through. The artwork is creepy and lovely and the text tips made me laugh out loud.

• Alice is Dead 1
• Alice is Dead 2
• Alice is Dead 3

The gameplay is straight-forward point-and-click to interact with items and solve the puzzles to make your way through the next area. Each episode is fairly short but some of the puzzles are quite difficult, so I paused the game a few times to try to think about what I’d missed.

Jay is Games gave the first episode a sterling review and has posted a walk-through in case you get really stuck.
Alice is Dead: Episode One Walkthrough Guide

More Brothers Grimm than Lewis Carroll, Alice is Dead is a short but sinister little noir-ish tale that will entertain even if the plot twist at the end is a little predictable. Play it on a coffee break, or play it with the lights down low and the sound turned up. You didn’t need those sweet dreams anyway, did you?

One of the developers posted in response to the many positive comments, saying:

In regards to the length of the game, truth be told this first episode was a bit of an experiment. We had no idea how people were going to react, and this overwhelmingly positive response has been such a pleasant surprise for me and Hyptosis.

So give it a go and see what you think. If you enjoy it, be sure to let them know so they create more!

Posted by Taymar on http://www.mmorpg-info.org.

I never get tired of this one.

It has come to my attention that there are people who do not know the story of Burned Woods.

The important thing to know is that there was a zone called Burning Woods, which was a part of Kunark in EQ1.

It took some time to find the original Burned Woods post as it appeared on the EQNecro forums. The original thread got destroyed in a forum update and I found various versions floating around that are not quite what I remember from the original version. Most seem to have the language cleaned up which – considering he bleeped out 90% of the swearing in the original, struck me as unnecessary. The easy-to-find online version seems to replace “a$$” with Halfling which is totally bizarre.

Luckily, I did find the original eventually – on our guild forums. I should have looked there first. :)

This was originally was posted to EQNecros and the follow-up (by someone else) appeared on the thread about a week later.

So there I was…..minding my own business in The Overthere, when all of a sudden I see the message: “d00d sow plz”.
Of course, my natural instinct was not to answer, since I thought the clueless newb (hereafter referred to politely as “the petitioner”) must have been poorly informed at best.

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