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Jagex Announces New Browser-Based Sci-Fi MMO
RuneScape developer and publisher Jagex Games Studio announced Stellar Dawn, a new browser-based, science fiction-themed massively multiplayer online title releasing next year. Stellar Dawn will feature "a variety of gameplay styles" and will allow pla...
Bigpoint Developing MMORPG Based On Mummy Films

German online games publisher and developer Bigpoint announced that it's working on The Mummy Online, a free-to-play, browser-based MMORPG centered around Universal Pictures' The Mummy film franchise. As with the movies starring Brendan Fraser, The Mummy Online is set in Egypt during the first half of the 20th century. Players will take on the role of adventure seekers with customizable talents and skills, exploring environments and meeting characters from the films as they battle against ...

Analysis: Red Faction: Guerrilla, Just Cause 2, And Freedom In Games

[Columnist Tom Cross explores freedom in games for Gamasutra, looking into why players relish employing highly inappropriate destructive powers in games like Red Faction: Guerrilla and Just Cause 2.] Video games of the first and third-person action variant put a lot of effort into their environments. They live and die by how a player negotiates her way through, grapples with, and comes to comprehend and enjoy those environments. A game that works its story, main ...

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