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Who loves Korea? MMO Fallout loves Korea, and not just because the country has spiraled up to about 50% of my traffic over the past couple of days. Aventurine also loves Korea, in the latest Epic Blog Tasos Flambouras starts by commenting that the developers are heading to Korea to sign an agreement with new [...]
Archive for the ‘Darkfall’ Category
Darkfall’s New Player Experience: Safe Zones
February 24th, 2012 
Omali As someone who enjoys playing video games even more than I do writing about them, I am sympathetic to the plight of the newbie. After all, I’ve played enough of other games to have gotten a good feel for Darkfall when it released a few years ago, but I understand that there are plenty of [...]
Darkfall’s New Investors: InternetQ
February 11th, 2012 Omali Although inevitably someone will come and tell me otherwise, investors have historically had major impacts on MMO development and direction on a fundamental level. For instance, I would never make the direct claim that Insight Venture Partners told Jagex to reverse course and start including exclusive in-game items packaged in with certain vendor cards, but [...]
Darkfall: Down The Path of Trammel
February 10th, 2012 Omali Whenever the topic turns to a free for all PvP MMO, I often bring up the subject of what I refer to as “Trammeling.” It is also known as “pulling an NGE,” and occurs when a developer makes dramatic changes to underlying fundamentals of a game in order to achieve what they believe will appeal [...]
Tasos Flambouras Works With Amnesty International
January 13th, 2012 Omali A team of Greek developers have combined their powers in order to create a video game for Amnesty International. The aim of the game is to bring awareness to Amnesty International’s push to end the death penalty in the countries where it still exists. Players take the role of an AI advocate in several countries [...]
Darkfall 2.0 Visual Test Video
December 16th, 2011 Omali Whenever I see flyby videos of Darkfall 2.0, I always feel as though I’m watching a version of Morrowind with improved graphics. Darkfall 2.0 launches at some point in the future.
Darkfall 2.0 News: Aventurine Stalls On Wipe Announcement
December 2nd, 2011 Omali Whenever the topic turns to Darkfall 2.0, I can’t help but think back to how Jagex moved Runescape to Runescape 2 (now just referred to as Runescape) and the huge amount of changes the game went under just during that initial transition. So seeing this quote from Aventurine, I can’t help but hold high hopes [...]
Darkfall Free Weekend: This Weekend
November 17th, 2011 Omali Rejoice, fans of free for all sandbox MMOs, because Aventurine has a proposition for you. If you’ve departed Darkfall for any reason in the past, you are cordially invited to come back and experience the changes that have occurred in your absence. The instructions are relatively simple: Anyone who does not have a currently running [...]
Darkfall Free Weekend Coming
November 4th, 2011 Omali Noted Darkfall eccentric Tasos Flambouras updated the Epic Blog today with a rather short post: In two weeks, every Darkfall account will be reactivated to participate in a free weekend with accelerated skilling and great loot. Turn your speculate-o-meters to ten, folks. Is there going to be more news on the elusive Darkfall 2.0? Is [...]
Week In Review: Why Hath WoW Forsaken Me?
August 8th, 2011 Omali Thanks to World of Warcraft’s seven day welcome back week, I have something to hold my attention for seven days, at least until the little girl from The Ring comes through my television set to murder me (the joke’s on her, I’ll be playing The Room on a second television. Try and brave that to [...]
