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Interviews
Q&As and interviews with the people behind these games.
Sony Online Entertainment has announced the dates of its annual Fan Faire. This year, Fan Faire will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from August 5-8, 2010. Grab more details after the jump.
Jim Moreno looks at how you can bring your pen-and-paper RP experience to Dungeons & Dragons Online: Unlimited.
Star Wars Galaxies TCG will expand in March with the arrival of Threat of the Conqueror. The new cards will either boost light or dark decks as well as add new race cards. Read on!
Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it is spreading the love in all of its games for Valentines' Day. Find out what's happening in EQ, EQ2, SWG, LoN and FreeRealms by clicking below.
Sony Online Entertainment is inviting former Star Wars: Galaxies players to return for the latest game update, Galactic Civil War: Forces Under Siege". Find out more about the the offer and the game update by clicking 'read more'.
Jim Moreno walks us through how to properly roleplay in Star Trek Online. Live Long and Prosper.
Jim Moreno discusses how best to network with fellow roleplayers (and himself, of course).
Sony Online Entertainment publishes a wide variety of MMOs appealing to different sorts of players. To celebrate the upcoming holiday, events are planned for all games. Find out what's happening in YOUR neck of the universe by clicking below.
Jim Moreno shares another round of the best RP resources on the internet.
Jim Moreno outlines the things that would make him one very happy roleplayer this Christmas, even if they won't fit under the tree.
Jim Moreno shares his list of the five most crucial tools for any MMORPG to support roleplaying.
Jim Moreno finishes his look at how to RP using magic with some handy links from around the web.
In this week's RoleCraft, Jim Moreno looks at the actual act of casting the spell itself.
Death Troopers will be haunting the Star Wars: Galaxies environs in the latest patch, Update 14. Check out some of the features of these grizzly guys by clicking below.
In this week's RoleCraft, we'll look at how a spellcaster puts their magic to good use in the world of roleplay.
This week in RoleCraft, we look at how players can work the mystical arts of magic into their RP.
Sony Online Entertainment announced today their intention to close 12 of the current 25 servers on October 15th. The shutdown will address the underpopulated servers while keeping the Free Character Transfer service available for players to choose their new home server. Affected server details after the jump!
Jim Moreno looks at how roleplayers can create a character who is in the military.
Felicia Day's MMOG-focused comedy series is great at getting laughs, but can it also teach us things about roleplaying in online worlds?
A collection of the finest RP links from around the Internet.
On the eve of the grand premiere of his documentary Second Skin, director Juan Carlos Piņeiro Escoriaza was kind enough to speak with WarCry about the film and how it taught about virtual worlds and those who live in them.
Morale is a very real aspect of warfare. Historical battles are as often won through moral superiority as physical strength. Rules that account for morale loss (and less frequently, morale gain) are very common in military computer, miniature, and board games yet have been largely neglected for games where a player controls a single avatar.
As long as player action sequences are the driving force behind special maneuvers, MMOs will be nothing but a numbers game. The key to break this cycle is to focus on responses to the enemy's actions.
How much of an MMO is button smashing and how much involves actual skill? This installment is an investigation of how armor choices and shield employment can yield more combat decisions.
I like stats as much as the next person (probably more), but when warfare is boiled down to raw probabilities, battlefield skill disappears. The building of the best stat base becomes much more important than any sort of tactical competency. Instead of seeking a skill based work-around, games come up with new statistical probabilities.
The Star Wars Galaxies team has announced that it is seeking fan art to celebrate SWG's sixth anniversary. Grab the details by clicking below.
The Star Wars: Galaxies trading card game will be expanding in June with "Agents of Deception". The new set will feature new smuggler and spy unit cards. Find out more after the jump.
In this installment, Jonathan Steinhauer looks at the last MMO class archetypes, the Healer, and why this role at least is solidly developed.
The archetypal concept of the tank assumes that PvE opponents have the mental capacity of cattle. Instead of a monster intelligently attacking what would make his enemy most vulnerable (the Healer) or what is the greatest actual threat (the DPS), it attacks the one opponent that isthe smallest real threat and the hardest to kill: the Rodeo Clown... er Tank.
In this week's RoleCraft, Jim Moreno looks at the issue of player housing in MMOGs and how it can shape one's roleplay experience.
Starting a new series on the archetypal MMO classes, Jonathan Steinhauer begins by looking at DPS and the issue of hitting versus damaging.
This week on RoleCraft, Jim Moreno looks into how roleplayers can prepare for an adventure - Research, Plan, Go!
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game is releasing another expansion called "Galactic Hunters". With 180 new cards, players are also give the opportunity to play the bounty hunter. Keep reading to find out more!
