TapTap Presents Mobile Showcase Featured Exciting Reveals This Past Weekend For 24 Games

TapTap Presents wrapped up its annual mobile gaming show this weekend featured updates for 24 games including the world premier reveal of DeNA's Captain Tsubasa. Anyone interested in keeping a pulse on the mobile game scene should definitely check it out, or at least skim the highlights. If you missed the show you can watch the entire hour-long broadcast below: [...]

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Is Griefing Healthy For MMOs?

Picture this: You’re walking through your favorite MMORPG’s hub city looking for quests to pick up. You stop by the mailbox to grab the gold you made from a recent auction house venture and you turn around to see a giant dragon staring you in the face. Some high level beastmaster must have snuck the beast past the city guards [...]

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Is Paladins Too Derivative To Compete?

Hi-Rez Studios, creators of the third person MOBA Smite and the high-speed FPS Tribes Ascend, are back with their latest entry into the free to play MMO market. Paladins takes many of the best elements from the most popular MMOs and simplifies them, creating a game that plays very well but doesn’t bring much new to the table. Considering that [...]

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The Perks of Being A Bland Role-player

A large part of the appeal of role-playing, whether it's in an MMORPG or on a kitchen tabletop, is being able to take on the personality and appearance of someone new. Personally, I enjoy adventuring in strange mythical worlds, but I keep my characters relatively boring in comparison. My class of choice in Dungeons & Dragons is the fighter, and [...]

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