If Dungeon Fighter Online or FreeStyle Street Basketball plays more to your gaming sensibilities than, say, high-end 3D games like Far Cry 2, the Acer AspireRevo R3610-U9012 may very well be to your liking. The $329 mini-desktop is a slick PC about the size of a hardcover book that features a solid Nvidia GPU that’ll let [...]
JCE’s FreeStyle Street Basketball (a free online game) is one of those titles that you simply have to dive into to truly understand why I blew way too many hours of my holiday break glued to a PC. When I told my bud Terry Lewis, editor-in-chief of The Other View, that I was playing a cell-shaded, [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard any news about CJ Internet’s MMO action-fighter, Mini Fighter, but things have changed since we’ve interviewed the company back in August. The closed beta has ended, and the game is now open to the public, with a few new tweaks to make the game tighter. Based on feedback [...]
There aren’t that many 2D, sprite-based beat ‘em ups released nowadays, but Nexon America proved that the genre is still a terrifically viable one with Dungeon Fighter Online. A mash up of the traditional fist-to-face brawler with MMO and fantasy elements, Dungeon Fighter Online allows you to select one of five character archetypes (Gunner, Priest, [...]
Dungeon Fighter Online, a free online game, has been in open beta or a number of weeks now, which has given MMO fans the chance to thoroughly sample the gameplay – – and I’ve been amongst them. Unlike other reviewable games that are more or less fixed when presented to the public, Dungeon Fighter Online‘s [...]
It’s time to grab your weapon and spells and take to the battlefield. Today, Nexon America officially opened the Dungeon Fighter Online beta testing to all gamers after months of anticipation. This Neople-created MMO brawler combines the 2D scrapping elements of beat ‘em ups with the fantasy elements inherent to massively multi-player online titles. Gamers [...]
Bits and Bytes is a weekly round up of some of the more interesting gaming news items that happened to slip through the cracks during our normal posting schedule. They’re presented here in easily-digestible bite-size chunks. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for more 2D gaming commentary. Funky Bomber Bomberman is an old school [...]
I haven’t played a MMO since the early days of City of Heroes. I was unemployed, having been recently laid off after a year’s stint at the now-defunct Sync magazine, and looking for a way to relax between mad rushes to find freelance work. In retrospect, spending $15 a month on a video game wasn’t [...]
You may have seen preview ads for Mini Fighter here and on other gaming sites, but now the Korean, 2D, side-scrolling fighter MM0 (mouthful!) is headed to closed beta, stateside, on July 23. If you haven’t been following its development here’s a swift primer. Mini Fighter is a side-scrolling fighter with cutesy, super-deformed characters. Unlike [...]
Chances are that when you think of MMORPGs, elaborate, detailed polygonal charaters and backgrounds hack and slash their way into your thoughts. But, as Gamasutra‘s Brandon Sheffield discovered by kickin’ it with Yunjong Kim, director of Dungeon Fighter Online, that style of game isn’t the only option for the genre. Gamasutra: I really like 2D games [...]
