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PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
John Blazevic |
Playing in Parallel Worlds Not all that long ago, you could count the number of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) on one hand. Now you'd need a lot more fingers.   |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2004
John Blazevic |
EverQuest II In this game, the world is much different 500 years after the events of EQ1, although some familiar places still exist. |
Macworld
February 2005
Peter Cohen |
World of Warcraft Anticipated online role-playing game pleases on every level |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
John K. Waters |
On a Quest for English Online role-playing games, which take players on explorations of medieval fantasy worlds, are showing the potential to be a powerful tool for ESL learning. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006
Scott Sharkey |
Gamesploitation Lying, cheating, and stealing for fun and profit. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2004
Seth Jayson |
eBay of the Elves A new computer game from Vivendi takes cues from the success of eBay. |
Macworld
November 2003
Peter Cohen |
Reality Is for Losers EverQuest, one of the most popular and most widely discussed entries in the MMORPG genre (for the uninitiated, that's massively multiplayer online role-playing game) has at last come to the Mac. And it didn't earn the nickname "EverCrack" without being highly addictive. |
Macworld
March 5, 2007
Peter Cohen |
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Blizzard Entertainment is one of Mac gaming's favorite game publishers, and it's little wonder why. The Burning Crusade will help to renew interest in World of Warcraft, and gives inexperienced players a wealth of new features to explore. It's definitely worth the upgrade. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Dan Costa |
Virtual Worlds Tired of the real world? Try a virtual one. These sites can have the graphic richness of massively multiplayer online role-playing games but are focused more on social activities and creativity than on dragon-slaying. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007 |
Multiplayer Economics Projected online-game revenue for 2012: $13 billion... Projected Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games revenue for 2007: $1.9 billion... Projected revenue by 2011: $3.5 billion... etc. |
PC Magazine
September 16, 2003
Rich Brown |
Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided This massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) is pretty, and character creation is amazing. |
Macworld
February 2005
Peter Cohen |
Vendetta Online Role-playing game puts macs, linux, and windows users on level playing field. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2005
David Murphy |
Guild Wars This MMORPG caters to the action gamer, with role-playing elements eclipsed by the emphasis on hack-and-slash missions. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
David Kushner |
Engineering Everquest In addition to driving the development of new software and hardware, online gaming demands heavyweight data centers. The machines that run EverQuest collectively have the bit-crunching capabilities of one of the world's top 100 supercomputers. |
Salon.com
July 9, 2002
Wagner James Au |
Showdown in cyberspace: Star Wars vs. The Sims If online role-playing games are ever going to break out of the hardcore gamer ghetto, they'll have to do more than please the geeks. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Peter Suciu |
Online Games Revisited Part of the appeal of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) is that they are built around persistent worlds -- which means these online universes can change and develop. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006 |
Money for Nothing In the book by Julian Dibbell, Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, the ultimate conclusion is that the boundary between the real and virtual worlds, or between work and play, is becoming increasingly blurred and mobile. |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
Macworld
July 2004
Peter Cohen |
The Game Room Now, with the release of Tron 2.0, a new first-person shooter from MacPlay, the story of Tron is back -- with a modern plot, some new twists, and much of its original charm. Too bad the game feels old. |
