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Fallen Earth is a post apocalyptic MMO. It “soft launched” towards the end of last year, and has gradually been gaining momentum, thanks to digital distribution via Direct2Drive and Steam.
Fallen Earth is set in the year 2 |
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I have fond memories of City Life - Monte Cristo's single player city building game, which was released back in 2006. City Life offered a deeper, more engrossing city building experience than the average city sim. You weren't just trying to build a |
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The King of Fighters series of games is one of the longest-running fighting games in existence. The series may not be as well known as Street Fighter or Virtua Fighter, at least not in the UK, but it has a strong core following, and it is very popul |
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It feels like we've been waiting forever for Aion, although to be fair, in MMO development years, the game made it to market quite quickly. The first I saw of it was at E3 back in 2006. Since then, I've gone through moments of excited drooling - "Y |
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Bejewelled has been a staple of casual gaming, and flash games web sites for a long time now. Some people even play it on their mobile phones! And now, even console gamers can join in the casual gem-matching fun, since Bejewelled 2 is available for |
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At the GameHorizon conference in Newcastle last week, Geoff Iddison, from Jagex, the makes of Runescape, was part of a panel about the future of games - things like user-generated content, and different billing systems such as micro-transactions. He spoke about the technology behind Runescape, and also revealed that the company, who have recently launched a casual games portal, are also working on a new MMO jokingly (we assume) called 'NextScape' which will launch in 2009. They also have plans for a third MMO sometime in 2010.
"We've got an infrastructure behind Runescape which is the real silver of the Jagex, the value of the company," Iddison said. "It's not the game, the game is going to come and go."
The forthcoming MMO will likely use a subscription based model, similar to Runescape with some free to play features and others that you need to pay to get access to. The 2010 one may use micro-transactions. Iddison was quick to stress that they will not introduce micro-transactions in Runescape, as they feel it would un-balance the game and alienate their existing players.
The conference was very developer focused, so they didn't talk about what the forthcoming games would be, but it was interesting to hear them mention the plans even in passing. |
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