I’m sure you’re probably tired of people wishing you a Happy Halloween, but I just have to say it since I’m really not used to it coming from a country that doesn’t celebrate it. Oh, we also mark Halloween, especially the thousands of massively multiplayer online game junkies, since this holiday is an integral part of MMOs all over the world.
For one, it’s one of the best holidays to launch events. I just wish that online game developers and publishers would come up with better gimmicks than simple bash-this-monster-and-get-this-item or open-this-box-and-get-a-random-item-that-is-totally-useless events. I mean, come on, guys! Fire up those …read more

Finally, Atlantica Online, our favorite massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a twist has turned one year old, and NDOORS Interactive, publisher of the game, is unfurling the red carpet for us players with a month-long event.
For starters, all characters above level 20 and is logged on at 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time will receive a special gift. What this gift is, we still don’t know. It better be “special”!
Well, if the gift doesn’t cut it, there’s always the 200-percent experience point bonus time for the entire first week of November. So break out those mercenaries you’ve been keeping in …read more

Sigh. It’s difficult to sit and wait for the implementation of a new patch for an online game. At the moment, I am waiting with mixed anxiety and dread for Atlantica Online to come back online and check what the latest update has in store for us. Anxiety because there are some features that I’d like to try out and dread because there are other features that I’d rather do without.
As I write this, NDOORS Interactive, publisher of the hit strategy massively multiplayer online game, has just announced that the maintenance, which began at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on …read more

It’s time once again for another installment of MMOre Power, a semi-regular section of MMOtaku that highlights survival essentials in the world of massively multiplayer online games. In this edition of MMOre Power, we check out Atlantica Online and its Blessing License.
While other MMORPGs market in its item malls some trinkets that boost experience points rates, NDOORS and Atlantica Online takes it a step further with the Blessing License, which essentially works the same except for the fact that it also increases attack power or damage by 150 percent and defense by 110 percent.
These bonuses are pretty handy if you’re …read more

I’m seriously thinking about permanently hanging up my sword belt in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Ragnarok Online. What the hell for? Well, I’ve realized that I’m getting too old for this game.
Not.
Actually, I’m just a little flustered after a few hours of playing my merchant TikaWaylan on Valkyrie, the free-to-play server of Ragnarok Online Philippines. Oh, yeah, she’s now a blacksmith. Damn job change quest!
The source of my frustration is, as you may have already guessed, the Blacksmith job change quest. The Merchant job change quest is a walk in the park compared to that of the Blacksmith.
Nah. …read more

Talk about fast updates. Less than a month after releasing the cute and cuddly kitty in a bag, Atlantica Online players now have a new decoration item to strut with down the jam packed streets of the Rome Bazaar. Introducing Michael’s Wings, the fifth decoration item to grace the backs of Atlantica Online player characters.
The last decoration item to hit the market was the Kitty Bag, which gave its bearer a cool 400-500 bonus to damage, a 70-point increase in vitality and additional 500 points in defense. The Kitty Bag broke the trend of Atlantica Online publisher NDOORS Interactive’s penchant …read more

I’ve got to get this out before the link completely vanishes from the face of Atlantica Online’s official site. Yes, MMOtaku has been featured on the aforementioned website. Actually, it’s not a feature but an announcement pointing to a feature on EveryJoe’s MMOtaku.
If you’re an MMOtaku regular, you’d probably recall the article featuring the title buffs of Atlantica Online and how they affect gameplay and gaming experience in that virtual world. There’s an almost complete guide on Title Buffs on the My Atlantica Online forums.
Here’s a screenshot, for posterity, of MMOtaku’s brief stay in the limelight:

Perfect World … sigh. It has been such a long time. I miss the game, the virtual world, and the friends I’ve made, but I also loathe the thought of revisiting, simply because it no longer holds much promise for me. Not that Perfect World, be it here in my little nook or in other countries, is a bad game. Far from it. It’s one of the coolest game on the planet!
But wait, we’re straying from the topic. I’m here to talk about why I’ve revisited Perfect World and how I found the experience. As the title suggests, I reentered …read more

NDOORS, operator of the hit turn-based combat massively multiplayer online game Atlantica Online, is calling it a unicorn, but I still think it’s a Pegasus, if not for the horns.
What the hell am I talking about? Check out these Atlantica Online screenshots of the new mount:

Well, whatever you call the new mount, it’s anything but weak and useless. Consider the stat bonuses your Atlantica Online character or toon can get by riding the new unicorn:
Unicorn – Mininum Level: 70, Attack Power: 320-420, Strength: +120, Dexterity: +120, Vitality: +180, Defense: 3600, Movement Speed Increase: 20 percent.
So how do you get such …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