Metal Assault enters Closed Beta

Aeria Games revealed the Closed Beta date for its latest action shooter title. Metal Assault is scheduled to open its battlefields to Closed Beta participants on April 1. Interested players can still sign up for a Closed Beta invite at Metal Assault’s Official Website . Metal Assault is a 2D side-scrolling action shooter, similar in [...]

Cosmic Break 2nd OBT announced

The 2nd Open Beta Test of English Cosmic Break will begin on September 17 (Fri.) at 12:00 noon, PDT, (21:00 GMT+1) and run until October 17! The GMs will be back too during the 2nd OBT to host more transformation events, UC lumberjack events, GM radio, and other new fun events! We hope to see [...]

Infinite Space: An Argument for Single-Sharded Architecture in MMOs

In this much-referenced technical piece originally published in Game Developer magazine late last year, the team behind idiosyncratic MMO success EVE Online discusses precisely why sharing a single world between all of its players makes sense. Most of the larger massively multiplayer online games use separate instances, or shards, of the game’s universe in order [...]

How Do You Know If Someone’s An Otaku?

The term was popularized by William Gibson‘s 1996 novel Idoru, which has several references to otaku. The otaku, the passionate obsessive, the information age’s embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today’s interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in [...]

E3 2010 Preview: These Are the Big RPGs, Kotaku thinks

What role will role-playing games play at this year’s E3 expo? A big one, whether you’re a fan of the old-school turn-based brand or the massively multiplayer online way of doing things. E3 2010 Preview: These Are the Big RPGs, We Think.