FREE REALMS: Arriving a day later than planned - but up and running live nevertheless is SOE’s FREE REALMS.
I spent an hour in the bright and simple FREE REALMS world today and can confirm that there seems to be the core of a fun game available…underneath graphical chug and some strange lag. Maybe it’s just [...]

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Click! Flashback with me now! It’s time once again to dip into the ancient gamebunny MMO screenshot archives.
Today, we have a colorful collection of clicks from the 2004 Beta and early launch of NCsoft’s CITY OF HEROES. CoH is celebrating its 5-Year-Anniversary tomorrow. Ding! Gratz! Heroically delicious!

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HELLO KITTY ONLINE: I’ve been waiting for, and joking about, this MMO for almost a decade and it’s actually upon us - HELLO KITTY ONLINE is real. So very real. Check out the HELLO Kittah, uh, HELLO KITTY ONLINE ‘Create’ vid below and enjoy the bright colors and funshine happyhappy, OK?

“Great news for all the [...]

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PIRATE GALAXY: PIRATE GALAXY, a free-to-play, browser-based MMO, has officially launched today.
PIARTE GALAXY, from publisher, Gamigo, features “Real-time space-and ground-based combat”…a “Huge game universe with dozens of planets and star systems”… and best of all - “no installation fees, no subscription fees”. Sound inner-esting? Fire it up.
“In Pirate Galaxy, you walk in the shoes of [...]

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Click! Flashback with me now! It’s time once again to dip into the ancient gamebunny MMO screenshot archives.
As some of you may have heard by now - SHADOWBANE has been canceled and will give up the ghost on the 1st of May, 2009. In honor of the game’s passing, here are a half dozen gamebunny [...]

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BATTLEFIELD HEROES: Newly released gameplay footage for DICE’s upcoming “almost MMO”, free-to-play shooter, BATTLEFIELD HEROES can be accessed below. The game looks fast, furious and most of all - fun. Love the cartoon sound effects!

“Battlefield Heroes will offer three different Classes:
The Soldier
A balanced fighting character who focuses on leadership and healing abilities.
The Gunner
A big weapons [...]

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BORDERLANDS: When Gearbox Software recently confirmed that their delayed, post-apocalyptic RPG, BORDERLANDS would be sporting a new cartoony look - my first reaction was, “Uh oh.”
After viewing the first, just-released screenshot (from PC Gamer mag), I think we can all rest at ease. The (”don’t you dare call it cel-shaded”) new style looks pretty darn [...]

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Click! Flashback with me now! It’s time once again to dip into the ancient gamebunny MMO screenshot archives.
Today, we have six pix from 2001 and the start of service for Funcom’s ANARCHY ONLINE. Good gravy, I sure was excited to have a 3D Sci Fi MMO to play. The game’s launch was quite rough [...]

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We all have a handful of upcoming games on our playdar that we can’t wait to dive head first into. Here is a Top 10 list of my most anticipated games for 2009-2010. *Note: The list is subject to change with future game company reveals ( Half-Life 3, I’m looking at you). Additionally, there’s probably [...]

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Click! Flashback with me now! It’s time once again to dip into the ancient gamebunny MMO screenshot archives.
Today, how ’bout I lay down a half dozen DARK AGES screenshots, circa 2000? Maybe 2001. Keep in mind this is Nexon’s DARK AGES, an early graphical MMO, not DARK AGE OF CAMELOT. I had a lot [...]

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JUMPGATE EVOLUTION: NetDevil’s Hermann Peterscheck narrates this “Making of JUMPGATE EVOLUTION” trailer which you can enjoy below. I’m slowly becoming more interested in this game as it flies closer to release. I’d like to get my hands on a nice, MMO-style version of FREELANCER. JUMPGATE EVOLUTION could be the one.

“Jumpgate utilises a fully immersive ‘twitch-based’ [...]

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Click! Flashback with me now! It’s time once again to dip into the ancient gamebunny MMO screenshot archives.
Yesterday, I brought you a half-dozen lookers captured within the first year of ASHERON’S CALL’s 1999 launch. Today, I present a collection of shots from the 2002 Beta and early launch of Turbine’s now-defunct ASHERON’S CALL 2. [...]

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Various stories of import relevant to the world of MMOs have been piling up on the gamebunny news desk. Listed below are a few statements and happenings you may wish to investigate:
THE SECRET WORLD: Funcom have spilled the beans (lifted the veil, unlocked the box, whipped open the doors, etc.), providing first details for THE [...]

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Click! Flashback with me now! Seeing as I have so many dusty, yellowing MMO screenshots in the ol’ archives I thought it might be cool to trot some out on a regular basis in a new mini-feature called - “gamebunny’s Ancient MMO Screens”.
Today, we take a look at Turbine’s ASHERON’S CALL, circa 1999-2000. Do please [...]

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Good Morning fine people. Today, I want to point you in the direction of an excellent interview entitled, “Making MMOs on a Shoestring: The NetDevil Story with Scott Brown”.
I’ve met Brown, the president of NetDevil, on a few occasions (at past E3 conventions) and found him to be thoughtful and friendly. One of those guys [...]

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