Updates For MMOs

• Some new games released on Facebook in April, 2011

  Apr 6,2011 by EDWARD WONG
  

  I just got some newly released Facebook games, and most of them are highly rated with 4-5 stars. Hope this new list will never let you down. Blue Life Interested in role-playing games? Well, you may find one of them on Facebook.com these days. Released on Feb.28th, 2011, this game makes you a little boy [...]

• Grepolis 2.0 Officially Launches with Plenty of new features added

  Apr 5,2011 by EDWARD WONG
  

  Hamburg, April 5. InnoGames has just launched the biggest Grepolis Browsergame update in its entire history. Version 2.0 opens a multitude of new features to the players. New worlds have started on the international, German, Russian and Brazilian servers, the other versions will follow soon. Prior to the release, the new version was beta-tested by [...]

• NetEase and Bluehole signed an agreement to publish TERA in China

  Apr 5,2011 by EDWARD WONG
  

  Chinese multimedia news Sina Gaming Channel reported that the MMORPG TERA developer Bluehole and Netease have reached an agreement to exclusively distribute TERA in mainland China. The source said that the Chinese version of TERA is being localized and, players are able to expect the first closed beta testing this year at the earliest date. [...]

• Elfender: Tower Defence Online Game inspired by Plants vs Zombies

  Apr 4,2011 by EDWARD WONG
  

  When Clapalong, the Chinese online game distributor, announced a new browser-based game Elfender last week, we spent 30 minutes testing this tower defense MMO. For what the game delivers, some exciting elements emerge as some big problems will have to be solved. From my 3 year experience playing and covering browser games, I concluded that [...]

• Munich Gaming 2011: Cloud Computing Creates Opportunities for online game developers

  Apr 1,2011 by EDWARD WONG
  

  For game developers and operators of online games, MMORPGs and browser games, cloud computing may be a new possibility for their hosting games. Currenlty, it is by no means all benefiting all game developers and publishers partly because of lack of bandwidth and partly because of data protection issues. “Cloud computing is really a dream, [...]