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HEXUS.gaming hands-on with Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

HEXUS.gaming has a comprehensive preview of the upcoming MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

"We played this scenario as Elena the Bright Wizard. The map was the called Reikland Hills, an unsurprising hilly area, with plenty of rocks ideal for gaining a vantage point to unleash devastating spells on enemies, and with trees that act as good for cover from the large open spaces where the majority of the fighting was taking place. Our objective was to try and control zones that were dotted around the map and marked with flags. The action is totally point-based and it was the first team to 500 points that won the battle. In this case, you get points for killing and keeping control of the zones."

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10 MMOs That Died And Left Us Feeling Empty

Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.

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Casepbx2867d ago

I still miss City of Heroes.

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PurpHerbison2867d ago

I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.

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Five Ambitious MMOs That Never Took Off

Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."

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12 Dead Online Video Games That Should Never Have Ended

The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.

One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.

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