SF author Charles Stross has just given a keynote adress at the annual LOGIN (Leaders of the Online Game Industry) Conference in Seattle, Washington and offered some interesting and entertaining observations on the future of gaming - and come up with a gret new description for the 'silver surfer' gamers of the near future... CodgerGamers.

 

New research from media analyst Screen Digest on subscription massively multiplayer online games (MMORPGs) shows good growth from a market driven to innovate by the dominance of Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.

 

Runes of Magic, the highly anticipated free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game from Frogster, has commercially launched. After a critically-acclaimed and successful beta test, players can now immerse themselves in the first chapter of the the game, called Rise of the Demon Lord and experience the wonders of mythical Taborea.

Frogster have released a new cinematic trailer for its highly anticipated free-to-play MMORPG Runes of Magic. The spectacular cinematic trailer shows a group of Taborea adventurers challenging the Demon Lord, the powerful fiend of the first chapter "Rise of the Demon Lord’ which begins on the day of launch later this month.

In another sign of Sony Online Entertainment commitment to its upcoming DC Universe Online Massively Multiplayer Online game, last month the company announced that award-winning comics writer Marv Wolfman had joined the creative team at WildStorm Productions that's working with SOE to bring the DC Universe to life on the Playstation 3 computer entertainment system and the PC.

Wolfman will write compelling story arcs, exciting quests and in-game events for DCUO and weird&Beard caught up with the award-winning writer to have a quick chat with him about his role in the project...

Publisher: Frogster
Out: 19 March 2009
Official web site: www.runesofmagic.com

Overview: Runes of Magic is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) featuring more than 600 quests, 36 character classes, and player-versus-player gameplay, in which words can create, but also destroy. Explore and discover a magical world full of wonders and ancient riddles...

Still in closed beta, but opening soon to all, the upcoming PC online game Dungeon Party looks like it's shaping up to be a lot of fun, with recently-released imagery revealing its unlikely heroes in situations always as fun as dangerous, trying at all costs to be the first team to bring the Chest out of the Dungeon.

Mythic Entertainment has announced the upcoming launch of "Call to Arms", a live expansion for its award-winning MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR).