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GameSpot: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Preview

GameSpot writes: "If you've played Mythic's previous MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot, then the setup for the Land of the Dead might seem immediately familiar. In fact, Mythic considers the Land of the Dead to be the spiritual successor to the Darkness Falls dungeon from Dark Age because the main idea is to have a single dungeon where both factions are competing toward the same objective at the same time. Darkness Falls was one of Camelot's most popular dungeons, and Mythic is hoping that the Land of the Dead receives a similar reception. But what might make it especially popular for some is the addition of an entirely new armor set called Tyrant, which looks distinctive since it matches with the overall theme of this new content".

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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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Casepbx2874d ago

I still miss City of Heroes.

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PurpHerbison2874d 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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