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This massively-multiplayer online game includes customizable LEGO avatars and, so far, most of the elements you’d expect from any online role-playing game (except leveling up). Here’s a bullet-point list of the game’s features and my observations base on the first day of the closed beta. Also check out the LEGO… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: LEGO Universe beta screen screenshots

Amazon’s Video Game Deal of the Day today (March 9, 2010) is sure to please those dying to explore the final frontier. Both the standard and collectors editions of Atari’s Star Trek Online, the MMO inspired by Star Trek, are greatly discounted. Plus, both still cost just enough to qualify… Continue Reading »

If you ever thought that $60 was a lot of money to spend on a video game, then forget about that brand new virtual space station. The winner of an auction for the Crystal Palace Space Station just dropped US$330,000 for his virtual piece of heaven. Planet Calypso, created by… Continue Reading »

All you Free Realmers out there will be happy to know that the game’s already huge environment has just gotten, well, huge-r. Free Realms, the free-to-play online MMORPG has expanded the race car derby, Speedway Thunder. The additions, Kart Racers and Demo Derby Drivers, offer professional progression and allow players… Continue Reading »

Ankama, the force behind DOFUS, Wakfu and Dofus-Arena have decided to fully support GamesCom 2009 by attending the August 19-23, 2009 convention in Cologne, Germany. And when I say fully support, I mean fully support. There will be giveaways, playable games, Wakfu episodes in English and a special press conference… Continue Reading »

Since the free browser-based MMMORPG zOMG! started allowing players in 2008, it has been widely talked about in the forums. Guilds have formed to help others complete quests and meet other players who love the game. I had a chance to talk with zOMG! senior producer and creative director Dave… Continue Reading »

Want to get involved in Nexon’s free-to-play MMORPG Mabinogi? It’s a great time for it, what with the massive Pioneers of Iria expansion just added into the game and a lot of previously premium content suddenly becoming free. Of course, with that expansion came some important decisions. Now there are… Continue Reading »

If you’re a frequent Gamertell reader, you may be thinking, “Wait, Mabinogi was already reviewed!” That’s true. However, that was before the massive Pioneers of Iria expansion that Nexon unleashed on February 26, 2009. Previously in Mabinogi, the game would be updated in bursts called Generations. Each Generation would tend… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Mabinogi: Pioneers of Iria

MMO fans should keep on Lemon Co.‘s Fantasia. This Korean company has just launched the closed beta of a massive multiplayer online rpg that is primarily played on cell phones. So now you can be out and about in the real world, while also venturing through a virtual one. Lemon… Continue Reading »

Cute, somewhat deformed, anime characters? Check. Unique family and friend systems to help players’ avatars bond? Check. The ability to run your own farm and raise pets? Check. The ability to face off against evil hordes facing Blue Land? Double check! Yup, it looks like the closed beta of the… Continue Reading »