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Dec

Does EVE make players better at other MMOs?

Posted by Mennissa  Published in How-To, Links, Stereotypes

In an article found at massively joystiq on December 12th, they posed the question: Does Eve make you better at other MMOs? The author of this article found that by playing EVE for many years before playing other MMOs gave him experience and helped him be much more effective. The PvP experience gained by playing [...]

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Tags: Eve Online, MMOs, skills

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10

Dec

Bringing MMO’s to game consoles

Posted by Mennissa  Published in Uncategorized

It seems that Blizzard Entertainment (the company behind Starcraft and WoW) are thinking about bringing the MMO world to the XBox360. It would be a new concept to the Microsoft console that would take a lot of thought before initiating. The two determining factors of this happening is that (1) they need to talk with [...]

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Tags: console, MMOs, World of Warcraft, Xbox360

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30

Nov

Getting To Know Your Character

Posted by Mennissa  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, How-To, Narrative, Participant-Observation

In the virtual worlds that I have experienced, personally (WoW, Runescape and Second Life), I’ve found it quite difficult to figure out who my character is, what it does and what exactly I’m supposed to be doing. Although there are tutorials like in Runescape and Second Life, I don’t always find them to be the [...]

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Tags: characters, chats, MMOs, noob, Runescape, Second Life, World of Warcraft

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4

Oct

News in MMOs

Posted by Mennissa  Published in Links

For those of you interested in WoW (World of Warcraft), the new expansion is almost here! The new expansion, ‘Cataclysm’, will be coming out in December. As well as the new PvP Arena which will be released around December 14th, shortly after the expansion. There is a new MMO online game, much like Second Life [...]

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Tags: MMOG, MMOs, PVP, World of Warcraft

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