pRemember emDungeon Keeper/em? The good news is that an MMO based on the series is in development, but the bad news is that it's currently planned for Asian markets only./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/12/01/dungeon-keeper-mmo-on-the-way-from-ea"Read More.../a/p

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/interviews/" rel="tag"Interviews/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mmo/" rel="tag"MMO/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/iss13.jpg" alt="" //div It's been more than four years since MMO faithful were asked to put on skin-tight suits and defend the bustling metropolis of Paragon City in emCity of Heroes/em. Since that time, however, numerous other titles have emerged with their bid for players' massively multiplayer affections, from recent efforts like ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/warhammer-online"Warhammer Online/a/em to the juggernaut that is Blizzard's ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/wow"World of Warcraft/a/em. br /br /Of course, the now a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/06/city-of-heroes-city-of-villains-ips-sold-to-ncsoft/"wholly NCsoft-owned/a super powered MMO has released updates of its own to keep from becoming stale, including everything from the libertine emCity of Villains/em to this week's latest addition, dubbed Issue 13. We recently caged Matt "Positron" Miller, and spoke to the senior designer for NCsoft NorCal at length about the unluckily numbered update, as well as a number of other topics, including the availability of emCity of Heroes/em on the Mac and the superhero MMO's relevancy in today's overcrowded market.pa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/joystiq-interview-ncsoft-talks-about-updating-city-of-heroes-ke/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emJoystiq interview: NCsoft talks about updating City of Heroes, keeping it relevant/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/joystiq-interview-ncsoft-talks-about-updating-city-of-heroes-ke/"Joystiq interview: NCsoft talks about updating City of Heroes, keeping it relevant/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/joystiq-interview-ncsoft-talks-about-updating-city-of-heroes-ke/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1387364/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/joystiq-interview-ncsoft-talks-about-updating-city-of-heroes-ke/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lCyaIR2Bn_cKOWDyVrMEmItmK50/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lCyaIR2Bn_cKOWDyVrMEmItmK50/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=8JtblZzi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=8JtblZzi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=iuMF3ZwD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=iuMF3ZwD" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/0GcihkfYDdo" height="1" width="1"/

Dungeon Keeper est de retour, mais uniquement en Chine. Electronic Arts a en effet confié les clés de sa licence à NetDragon Websoft Inc., un développeur et exploitant chinois de jeux en ligne. Celui-ci se chargera de l'élaboration, de la distribution et de la gestion d'un MMORPG en 3D sur PC baptis...

Je l'avoue tout de suite, j'ai toujours été un grand grand fan de la série Dungeon Keeper. L'original, je me souviens encore de la toute première présentation que Peter Molyneux était venu en faire dans nos locaux, en 1997, quand on était encore jeunes et riches. Faut dire que ça tuait méchamment la gueule, à l'époque. Et puis il y a eu la suite, après que Peter s'est enfui de Bullfrog et d'un…

plus MMOG que MMORPG probablement

Nouveau MMO à faire son apparition, 7Million vous propose de le découvrir à travers une phase de test. Les inscriptions sont toujours ouvertes.

Wonderland Online, l'un des multiples MMO du prolifique éditeur de Free to Play IGG, nous revient en images et en évènements...

Les MMO de stratégie sont manifestement à la mode. NetDragon et Electronic Arts viennent d'annoncer le développement d'un MMORPG inspiré du célèbre Dungeon Keeper.

NetDragon Websoft to develop the 3D title based on classic PC strategy franchise

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Last month I had the chance to chat with a top U.S. Nintendo exec and suggest how, with a few savvy improvements to the Wii system, the company could turn it into the living room Net appliance of choice. But despite the opportunity Nintendo has with the Wii, the company seems determined to let it remain a mere video game console.

Big-screen HDTVs have reached a price point of several hundred dollars. That means consumers are now bringing home television displays both large and crisp enough for browsing the Net from their couches. And all the latest video game consoles come with Net access. Yet the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3, despite attempts to broaden their user base and include new mainstream-friendly features, seem unable to expand beyond their niche audience of hardcore gamers. Meanwhile, the Wii’s global install base is already double that of its competitors combined — and its growth shows no sign of slowing down. Indeed, Merrill Lynch expects the console, which has attracted buyers from both genders and across the demographic spectrum, to reside in one of three households by 2011.

Add to this the Wii’s innovative Wiimote, which is essentially a 3D mouse, and thus ideally suited for the speedy, point/click/drag navigation that a true big-screen Internet experience requires.

With that in mind, I think Nintendo would only need to add three features in order to win it the world — or at least, the world’s living rooms.

1. Full-featured, optimized web browser

The Opera browser that comes pre-installed in the Wii is no-frills, and frustrating to use. A Yahoo-style web portal would greatly increase its popular appeal; a version of Opera robust enough for, say, watching Quicktime movies, editing Google Docs, and playing casual Flash games, would be even more compelling. Add a Nintendo-branded keyboard peripheral, and your game console suddenly becomes a low-budget, cloud-computing PC.

2. iTunes-like interface for purchasing content with Wii Points

Wii Points already links virtual currency to users’ credit cards, but other than casual and classic video games sold in the remarkably crippled Wii Channels, there’s little to actually buy with them. Wii Points cry out for purchasable movies, music, and other audio/video content, but none have been forthcoming. (The lack of a hard drive for downloading content is, of course, part of the problem.) Why stop there? Imagine if a site like Amazon were added to Wii Channels and accepted Nintendo’s currency. The Wii would become an online retail shopping appliance, too.

3. Multiplatform social network with seamless chat/IM

With little ability to really interact across the Net, the Wii’s cute-but-trivial Miis are avatars without an MMO or a social network to give them a community. Linked to Facebook, the iPhone, Nintendo’s handheld DS, and other platforms, Miis would become your “home” avatar, the communication stream you’d use from your couch.

While the Nintendo exec I spoke with listened attentively, he explained that such features don’t fit the company’s main goal: to provide a platform for fun and games. For the moment, then, the Wii seems destined to become this generation’s Playstation 2 — an epically popular game console, but little else. Which is a shame, because if Nintendo misses out on this opportunity, we do, too.

Image credit: wii.com

Hi, me and some friends are interested in playing an MMO. We have played EverQuest, and briefly World of Warcraft.

We played EverQuest from about 1999 to 2005, quit when it got boring and played WoW for about 2 months before quitting because it got boring. We just now decided on playing a new game besides WoW or EQ.

Our options we were looking at were VanGuard: Saga of Heroes, EverQuest 2, Warhammer, or something else.

Anyone have any ideas?