MMORPGs are the game of choice right now, both for players and for game creators.  There are constantly new online games being released – Champions Online, Star Trek Online, Final Fantasy XIV and more are to follow soon.  And there are even more expansions, patches and content...

Early on in online games the goal of a player is simple.  Quest, grind and explore whichever world their character inhabits until the end level is reached. With the continuous play and open-ended structure of MMORGs there has to be some kind of marker or game structure that allows...

In no more than half a day after Cataclysm was released worldwide, the leveling competition to be the first to hit the level 85 cap has ended with Athene, a Euro WoW fanatic, hitting level 85 in only 5 hours. How exactly did Athene achieve this? First off, the said character is a human...