Devilian private server or emulator – are there any?
First of all, the day after closure has been hell in terms of that empty heavy hearted feeling as those of us who really played the game at max level…
ESA opposes proposal for DMCA exemptions for online only games that have been sunset
Unsurprisingly, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) filed a comment to the U.S. Copyright's reopening of the argument of extending the DMCA exemption for abandoned games, to ones that are online…
PC Gamer – What’s It Like to Kill a Game
In what is turning out to be a very well timed article (with just a little over 2 weeks until Trion Worlds shuts down Devilian), PC Gamer takes a look…
IndieGoGo campaign to fund Marvel’s Heroes Rebirth
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/marvel-heroes-rebirth-action-rpg#/ I wasn't sure if this was serious or trolling (to revive the Marvel Heroes Online MMO-ARPG which was suddenly shuttered in November 2017) because the first thing I looked…
TERA Rising Private Server – Original Island of Dawn Intro
Finally found the time to get this pre-Fate of Arun private server setup and running. I wanted to experience the original opening and starter zone of TERA (since I played…
My Thoughts on Private Servers
With the prior post regarding the preservation of online only games (that had to stop being published), I felt that I needed to touch on the subject of private servers.…
Preserving online only games
https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/23/16814482/dmca-mmo-exemption-made Game preservations/archivists have been petitioning the U.S. Copyright Office to grant a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemption for online video games (specifically MMO's which require an online server)…
Marvel Heroes – “another one bites the dust”
http://massivelyop.com/2017/11/27/rip-marvel-heroes/ How it came to an ungraceful shutdown is not the way any company should terminate a service (in this case we have two parties; Disney which owns the IP…