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A glance at the latest video game news would reveal that Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, also known as MMORPG for short, are a relatively recent craze in the world of online multiplayer gaming. Although online multiplayer gaming had already been immensely popular by the time MMORPG titles made an appearance, this relatively newer genre has now outpaced all other online video gaming genres. The sheer scale of these games, and immersive environment and gameplay they offer to the gamers has led to a level of involvement for gamers that has confounded non-MMORPG video game developers and worried behavioral scientists.

Evolution of MMORPG

World of Warcraft : An Immesely Popular MMORPG

Spurred on by the rapid development of the Internet, which has, in general, led to a huge influx in the development of computer gaming.  You can play online games with people from different parts of the world. Over the years, titles such as Counter-Strike and Need for Speed have enjoyed (and continue to do so) dedicated online gaming communities. The MMORPG genre itself has evolved from console and PC based Role Playing Games ( RPGs ) such as the Final Fantasy series, involving extensive character development as you go along playing missions and completing quests. This concept was taken and put online, where every character you encounter in the MMORPG universe is a human gamer on quests of their own. The possibilities, therefore, are very real-world and virtually limitless.

In the MMORPG genre games, players from across the globe connect to a server and play as described above; excellent computer graphics are an added plus point that MMORPG game more exciting to play, but not the main consideration for MMORPG gamers.

We’ll now about two very popular MMORPG titles.

MMORPG: Vindictus

Vindictus is an action oriented MMORPG from Nexon with top notch graphics and fast paced bloody game play. The core structure of Vindictus is simple, with little time needed to introduce you to the basic mechanics, and more time involving you in the real combat.  Colhen is a place from where you can pick up tasks, buy and sell items, learn skills, and socialize with other players. In most of the missions you run through the same environments and areas over and over again, which sometimes might end up with a battle. With your enemies getting in your way every now and then and with traps littered everywhere the game becomes interesting as you try to reach your quest. When you are involved in a boss battle, for instance, your main focus should be on the teamwork to take your enemies out of your way.

MMORPG: World of Warcraft

This is the role-playing game you should play; no matter who you are no matter what you do this is a game that everyone would like. This is because World of Warcraft brings out all the best aspects of this style of gaming. The game is set in Azeroth in a period that something near to Medieval Europe.  World of Warcraft is one of a kind of experience and it’s something that is recommendable to everyone. After playing this game you will feel glad that you are one of those people who play games and will feel sorry for those who don’t. This game is really easy to play. You do not need any tutorial to learn to play this game. Once you start playing you move along with the flow and will feel after sometime that nothing is tough in this game.  The interface is very user friendly and makes it easier for you to enjoy this game. This is an action packed game; you will never feel yourself doing something over and over. Regardless of which character you play you can greatly contribute to player groups or play alone and can even manage the monsters on your own. The variety of the game is one of the best parts. The type of character you play you’ll start out in totally different types of places.  In short if you have still not played World of Warcraft you have missed out on something great.

Hope you enjoyed reading about this latest gaming multimedia trend, and that you get inspired to play a MMORPG yourself.

Cloud gaming is a term fast becoming familiar to those who regularly follow gaming news blog posts.  So what is cloud gaming exactly? Cloud gaming can be loosely defined  as a video game that is played over the web, with no downloads and no specialized hardware or software required except of course for a thin client computer and a nominal web browser. Cloud gaming is also known as gaming on demand and is a new trend in online gaming. It allows you to play streamed games on demand using your computer (device) with the help of a client. The actual game software is stored with the operator or the gaming company’s server which is streamed directly to devices accessing the server (of course with the help of a client).

 This ground breaking development has enormous potential. A system that lets you play all the latest titles from almost any computer could be enticing for many gamers who are reluctant to invest in expensive hardware, and there are also opportunities here for software developers. With no downloads necessary for end users, games can be designed with premium optimization in mind.

Cloud Gaming : Part of a New Movement in Computing

The impact of cloud gaming has to be understood in the larger context the new technology that is changing the way we understand and manage our daily computing: cloud computing.

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, where shared resources, software, and information are provided to other devices over a network. These clouds are already present in most of our daily lives. Whenever we log in to our email accounts via a web browser, all the data is stored in the Clouds. Many of us may have also interacted with such Clouds when using Google Docs in which the docs, spread sheets and presentations are all edited online without ever being saved at our devices. ‘The Cloud’ is the ‘place’ where the files you view and use online are stored it saves your hard disk space and also allows you to access your documents from any place in the world.

How Cloud Gaming Scores over Currently State-of-the-Art Consoles

Since the inception of this technology of cloud computing, the gaming industry has seen several new changes for the benefit of the gamers. The technology of cloud gaming allows the user an access to numerous games without the need of a high end gaming multimedia and hardware like the Xbox360 and the PlayStation gaming consoles. You do not need to have a high end computer as the server runs the processing needs and acts like a system for the game to run upon. Just like any other game played on the computer the keys are assigned for all the moves, every move that can be made by the console is available on the computer. This allows you to enjoy the same game with the same moves without shedding out extra money. The controls and button presses from the user are transmitted directly to the server, where they are recorded, and the server then sends back the game’s response to the input controls.

Further adding to the fun you do not require an internet connection that is very high on speed, you can even enjoy the gaming experience with just another average internet connection needed for a standard definition television i.e. 1.5 mbps.

This was us introducing you to the concept of cloud gaming. We’ll be back soon with more details about cloud gaming, as well as other video game news and gaming multimedia trends.

Gaming Multimedia Wars: Who’s the Best?

Sony’s PlayStation 3 is widely touted as the best gaming machine money can buy, though the small but hardcore group of Xbox 360 loyalists would contest that. They’d do so by citing the ‘superior GPU’, mindboggling hardware related figures or the online gaming portal that doubles as a Facebook of sorts, never mind the fact that these arguments just don’t hold water in the face of the sheer variety of titles that can be enjoyed on the PS3. Then there’s the infinitely better support on offer too. But let’s  not indulge in unnecessary baiting here; we must talk of the PS3.

Gaming Multimedia: What Makes PS3 Rock

• It is always on, so you can access your PlayStation3 from a remote location as long as you have a working internet connection.
• The PS3 CPU is several times faster than Xbox360, its nearest competitor, in terms of GFlops.
• The PS3 has a worthy companion on the PlayStation Portable; we can connect the PSP to our Playstation 3 and transfer media files such as music, videos, gaming multimedia etc.
• The multimedia game portfolio of published titles for PS3 is phenomenal; developers and publishers of over 230 games had already announced titles even before the console came out.
• PS3 has excellent backward compatibility with PlayStation 2 console, games and accessories.

Gaming Multimedia: What Makes PS3 Lag behind the 360

• Comes with only 256 MB video RAM, less than the 512 MB the Xbox 360 comes with. It may, however, be argued that while all of the 360’s RAM is shared from the system, the PS3 GPU’s RAM is onboard. A further 240 MB may be shared from the system, bringing PS3 closer to the Xbox360.
• The PS3 GPU lacks eDRAM, which enables the Xbox360 to edge it out in terms of sheer GPU bandwidth.

Microsoft is closing the gap with Xbox 360 and probably will eventually catch up with Sony in gaming multimedia consoles.  For some gaming multimedia users, it may come down to something as simple as which one is more compatible with the games they already have in their gaming multimedia collection.