Posts tagged mv-best-of-2008 
Massively's best of - Game we're most looking forward to
Winner: Star Wars: The Old Republic (writeup by Michael Zenke) If called this you did, strong in the Force are you. Actually, you probably didn't need to be a Jedi prognosticator to see this coming. Star Wars: The Old Republic is a game that MMO nerds have been awaiting for years. Re-uniting the ...
Massively's best of - Favorite game of 2008
Winner: World of Warcraft (writeup by Michael Zenke) There's a reason this game has so many players. It's as simple as that: World of Warcraft is the best fantasy MMO on the marketplace. It's probably the best AAA MMO period. We don't talk about World of Warcraft as much as the MMO genre ...
Massively's best of - Biggest surprise of 2008
Winner: The shutdown of Tabula Rasa (writeup by Shawn Schuster) This year's Biggest Surprise goes to the news that Tabula Rasa is closing for good in February of 2009. Some might think this was no surprise at all, considering the exodus of players over the past year, and the recent news of Richard ...
Massively's best of - Most improved game of 2008
Winner: City of Heroes (writeup by Krystalle Voecks) Our pick for Most Improvements in an MMO for 2008 goes to NCsoft's City of Heroes & City of Villains. While only Issue 12 and Issue 13 came out this year, both were fairly hefty in terms of giving players new options on their beloved game. ...
Massively's best of - Favorite expansion of 2008
Winner: Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft (writeup by Kyle Horner) When Blizzard released their first expansion to World of Warcraft, they made some improvements while at the same time making plenty of new mistakes. With Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has leapt beyond the original ...
Massively's best of - Favorite new MMO of 2008
Winner: Warhammer Online (writeup by William Dobson) The hype-o-meter was off the charts just prior to Warhammer Online's release this year, and when the game finally did come out, gamers found it to be a refreshing change of pace at the same time as being a heck of a lot of fun. Unlike so many ...
Massively's picks for the best of 2008
Massively doesn't hand out awards. We're not the Oscars, we're not the Emmys. What we are, though, is a bunch of opinionated MMO bloggers. Like it or hate it, 2008 was an enormous year for our favorite genre of games. We took a poll among the staff of the site, taking stock of an entire year in ...
