Recent content by francisbaud

There is a lot of Massively Multiplayer Online games in development around the globe, most of the mainstream titles being developed in South Korea, Japan and China. In the US and Europe we're pretty much sleeping, with only a few upcoming AAA MMOs (e.g. New World). But in the west independent...

None, but if I had a decent gaming rig I'd probably be playing one of the MMO games I'm following. Last game I've played was Agar.io, a simplistic multiplayer browser-based game, and League of Legends a couple years ago (that was before my laptop starts overheating).

I think gambling in games is closely related to RNG loots and loot boxes. They all rely on randomness to decide whether a player will receive a benefit or not. If the goal is to prevent addiction, I think it would be beneficial that randomness would be reduced to a minimum in games. I'm aware...

Guild Wars, without hesitation. It's a unique RPG with cooperative gameplay and PvP arenas, really nice story with interesting quests. It did win many awards and was played by more than 12 million people. If it ever gets free-to-play I'll likely give it a try again (my game copy is gone and I've...

I used to purchase pirated copies for PlayStation 1 and Xbox (and Dreamcast? not sure), and I was selecting the games just based on their name and their genre from a list. So it happened a few times I haven't played some of them for more than a few minutes because they weren't my type of game. I...

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey: 8/10 That was a long time ago, more recently I've been playing games that cannot be "finished" (aka MOBA and MMORPGs). Anyway, a pretty good RPG in my opinion, with an interesting story line (two worlds: the technologically advanced cities and the magical...