Where we left off: Our young heroes are reunited after a spat when Mr. Obnoxious, also known as THEGREATESTEVER or simply TGE, discovers that Pudding beat him in changing into the first job in the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game Fly For Fun.
In the fourth installment of the hit machinima based on Flyff, we find Pudding and TGE beating the crap out of Wagsaacs outside Saint Mourning as they continue their adventures after changing into their first jobs—Mercenary for Pudding and Assist for TGE. Of course, THEGREATESTEVER is still clueless about how his job class works, mostly due to …read more

Do you fancy owning and playing a character in a massively multiplayer online game that looks somewhat or exactly like you? Perhaps strutting around a virtual world with a character that looks like Brad Pitt or George Clooney is more to your liking? Devilish vixens instead of hunky actors? Why not?
If your answer is a resounding “yes,” then Perfect World is probably for you.
I’ve played around with Perfect World’s character customization in the past, and documented it here on MMOtaku under the title, Endless Fun With Perfect World’s Character Customization. Well, it’s really fun; it brings out the artist in …read more

Yes, I know it’s taken ages for me to post another article about one of my favorite machinima Pudding and THEGREATESTEVER based on the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Fly For Fun. Well, I’ve just watched the third installment in the series created by the Mystical Bunch, and I find myself craving for more.
It’s probably the sharp contrast between our two protagonist. On the one hand, you have THEGREATESTEVER, a misguided boy who thinks he is on the correct path to greatness. On the other hand, you have Pudding … ahh, clueless, naive Pudding.
Anyway, in this episode, the third in …read more

No. It’s not a new television show after the hit series CSI that brings to life great characters like Gil Grissom, Horatio Caine and Mac Taylor. Facebook application aficionados, however, may be familiar with Restaurant City, an interactive online game available on the social networking site.
Let me show you why we need crime scene investigators in Restaurant City:

I have to hand it to Playfish, developer of the hit Facebook application, for allowing the creative genius of Chino Yray, video games blogger and community manager of online games operator Level Up! Games, to take shape.
Never imagined you can do that with …read more

Not. Yes, it’s not a hack to give your Atlantica Online character a much-needed financial boost but some whack job’s sick joke for equally sick bastards who want nothing more than to cheat their way through a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Check out the video the person who hides behind the moniker mmorpghacker posted on YouTube:
I wouldn’t have mind watching the video and learning at the end that it was all a hoax. But watching Rick Astley strutting to the beat of Never Gonna Give You Up and singing the darn song just doesn’t sit well with me.
Who’s Rick …read more

Pardon the title. Take it as a fitting salute to Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic The Birds, a 1963 flick that, in a nutshell, shows what happens when avians suddenly decide to take over the world. Of course, I’m kidding!
No, this isn’t a movie blog. So let us go back to the topic: massively multiplayer online role-playing games. In this case, it’s Atlantica Online, a game operated in North America by NDOORS Interactive.
So what do Atlantica Online and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds have in common? Check out these screenshots:

For those unfamiliar with Atlantica Online, some monsters or mobs have the ability …read more

Is no game sacred? As you may have already surmised, I’m talking about the purported coin hack and its different versions that have been on YouTube probably since the Facebook application Pet Society by Playfish became a hit.

Look, Ma, no cheats!
I find it appalling that some people will actually go to great lengths to cheat even such a simple social or casual game like Pet Society. I mean, I understand the motivation behind cheating large massively multiplayer online role-playing games. In this type of game, the more in-game moolah you have, the more money you’ll get from real-money trading of …read more

The Force is strong in social and casual games, enough to pull a supposedly diehard massively multiplayer online role-playing game fanatic into playing them. Not that I mind, really. These games are actually interesting and helps break the monotony of playing just one genre.
I suppose in a way we can consider some social and casual games as MMOs, particularly classics like OzWorld, which was the first online game brought into the Philippines by then fledgling operator Level Up! Games.
The games I’m playing now, though, are of a slightly different breed. I play them through a social networking site, Facebook. Yes, …read more

I was supposed to post this screenshot a couple of days ago, but decided against it at first because I wanted to find out if the Western world thinks a pig taller—or larger—than an adult human being is, well, weird. After a few hours of fruitless browsing on search engines using the phrase “Atlantica Online big pig,” I thought that, yes, maybe Westerners grow their pigs to the size of small houses.
In hindsight, I think drawing sprites of pigs larger than character sprites in Atlantica Online does get rid of a stumbling block. Hey, at least the guys up at …read more

I assume you’ve taken a brief glance at the screenshot above before reading the first word of this paragraph. If you haven’t, you might want to do so now before proceeding any further.
Funny, eh? Well, if it’s not funny, then you probably think it’s ridiculous. Rest assured that not all Perfect World NPCs (or non-player characters, for the benefit of those who don’t know the lingo) “talk” like that. This way of “speaking” is the domain of the Foreigner NPC … yes, the one found on a boat off the coast of Langour Village.
Here’s the rest of his dialogue:
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