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8 years ago
An increasing number of massively multiplayer games are offering free entry into their worlds but it stands to reason that, more often or not, gangs of salesman will be roaming inside, or at the very least there will be equivalent of concession stands littered about the place, stocked with pricey but powerful socks and the like. Lego Universe began offering a free trial back in…
Whenever another MMO announces that it's changing to a free to play subscription model, the sound of rapid intakes of breath can be heard throughout corridors of Castle Shotgun like some panicked zephyr. We just can't believe it. There's an alternate reality out there where all MMORPGs are free to play and it's trying to break into ours. Hot on the heels of the City…
Despite feeling a little lukewarm towards the release-month accomplishments of Lego Universe, we're still keen to keep an eye on it. And the game - which was fairly small on release - is expanding. The latest reveal shows off Crux Prime, which shows skeleton minfigs mining on asteroids, and which reportedly contains some kind of martial arts monastery where players can learn "Spinjitzu". This is,…
9 years ago
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I've spent rather a lot of time of late in the lands of Lego Universe, the kid-friendly MMO from Auto Assault creators, NetDevil. It's been out for a couple of weeks now, so how does the brick-built world fare? Read on to find out Wot I Think.
Whoa, the backstory for the Lego Universe MMO is the same as the plot for Roadside Picnic. It's (roughly) true! Check out the new trailer, below. John is on this one, by the way, so we should have a review coming up later in the month. Healing notwithstanding. I had a play too and, despite some generic MMO elements, it's got a lot of intriguing…
There's a new video up over on the main Lego Universe site which shows a bit more of the building procedures in the game. For me it's this stuff - rather than the standard "hit bads for XP" MMO material - that is really interesting. This is kind of a CG mock up, rather than in-game footage, but it's worth browsing over this and the…
Three new Lego Universe trailers have flickered their way into the dull glow of my consciousness, via Bluesnews. They show a bunch of in-game activity, and also a fully-grown Lego fan with his Lego. He really likes Lego. I mean I really like Lego, but this guy likes it at another level.
One of the last of the PC showings from E3 that we've got around to taking a glance are those for Lego Universe. I've posted the lovely cinematic and some developer-chatter captured by GameTrailers below. I think it gives you a fairly good idea of what this is going to be. It's not exactly throwing off the familiar mantle of how MMOs doing things -…
I know there's a few of you out there who will be interested in this. The Lego Universe Beta sign ups have gone live over here. No word as yet for when it will kick off, but it can't be long. It might be worth registering with the main Lego site too, as there's an option for logging in with Lego ID? Hmm.
Once we get past early summer things get a little hazy. We enter a nether-realm of shifting dates and unclear prophecies. By then we'll also have a whole bunch of games I haven't previously mentioned show up in the intervening months, stuff that we didn't have release dates for to place them in our line-up. This final post in our preview attempts to survey them…
You're unlikely to have missed that CES was going on last week, and it coughed up a few gaming bits and pieces. One of these was a demo of the rather shiny-looking Lego Universe. The all-seeing record-o-brain of GameTrailers was there, and it delivered the five walkthrough videos you can see posted below. It shows the character creation, glimpses of the world, the importation of…
10 years ago
These still aren't properly in-game, but they're nevertheless a lovely target for Lego Universe to aim for. Apparently the idea of "build" underlies this latest release of images and, according to LEGO themselves, it "represents the power of building and customization that is core to the LEGO Universe experience." And furthermore "players will be able to build with an abundant supply of virtual bricks. And…
The official Lego Universe site has some images of the game "in action". They all look at little concept-y to me, but if it's a rough approximation of what we can expect from the game then I'm interested. Gleaning what little we can from this shots, we can see that it's going to have a Lego minifig spin on the traditional avatar creation and customisation,…
11 years ago
Reuters have revealed some of the first details on the LEGO Universe MMO, having talked to project director Mark William Hansen. From what we've managed to gather from this article and early discussion of the project at GDC, this could be the first children's MMO with mass appeal. Crucial to its success will be getting this bit right: Most social online worlds have their own…
