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Now that DC’s got some of its self-respect back, what with Batman: The Dark Knight making all sorts of noise all over the place, they’re launching DC Universe Online.
It’s a make-your-own-hero (or villain) sort of massively multiplayer role playing game, and it’s been three years in the making. It will be available to Windows PC [...]

You might not have noticed for all the hype over GTA4’s monster release, but Funcom’s Age of Conan massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) has been quite the blockbuster as well, passing the 400,000 unit mark in just a few days. That ranks it among the best-selling PC games of all time.
And the critics seem impressed [...]

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. You play it by… not playing? You join, you browse the internet doing everything you usually do (or not), and your online actions are translated into in-game events like level-ups, missions and apparently even some kind of PvP melee combat.
It certainly brings new meaning to the term “browser-based [...]

 It’s about time we had something other than dragons and spaceships to populate our MMORPG gaming worlds.
Recent trends have increased the viability of online games featuring Asian, particularly Chinese, historical characters and gameplay elements. Hollywood is partly the reason for this, with box-office hits like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:, “Hero” and the recent “The Forbidden [...]