MMOs get an in-game web browser: GotGame's Rogue

by Samuel Axon Nov 24th 2008 at 1:00PM

Let's say that, like most folks, you only have one monitor. Let's also assume that you either prefer to enjoy games in all their full-screen glory, or your one monitor doesn't run at a resolution high enough to make multitasking while running a game in a window practical -- also probably true of most folks. But you're playing World of Warcraft and you want to check Thottbot, or your e-mail. Well, very-specific-user, GotGame has a solution for you: Rogue, a browser that runs as a transparent overlay while you're playing games.

Rogue's visibility can be toggled on and off by pressing the F12 key, and it has customizable transparency settings. It doesn't work with all games, but World of Warcraft and Age of Conan are the two MMOs that have been tested by the folks at GotGame and confirmed to be Rogue-friendly. No word on, say, Warhammer Online or The Lord of the Rings Online (EVE Online already has a built-in browser, so no need there), but feel free to try and let us know how it goes.

Note that for the moment, Rogue only runs in Windows. Mac users are out of luck, though to be honest, we're a bit surprised that neither Vista nor Leopard supports this kind of thing natively. Maybe next time, eh?

[Via WoW Insider]

Tags: blizzard, browser, gotgame, in-game-browser, mod, rogue, ui, ui-mod, ui-mods, web-browser, world-of-warcraft, wow

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr. Pickles said on 1:17PM 11-24-2008

That's awsome and sucks at the same time! I mainly play WAR at the moment so I would like it to be working there so I can....oh, let's say read Massively.com while waiting for the pansy ass Order to try to even build a ram to take down a keep.

Peregrine said on 1:40PM 11-24-2008

Everquest 2 has had an in-game web browser for some time - I believe at least the last year. Just use the in-game /browser command and it pops up, just like any other game window.

JP said on 2:03PM 11-24-2008

That's pretty cool. Should be a big hit if they can get it in more games.

I'd even like it for my RTSs. Especially my RTSs.

Scopique said on 4:42PM 11-24-2008

I tried it with WAR, which isn't listed as an officially supported game, but WAR's audio stuttered on load, and then CTD once I had logged in.

I like IGBs, but this one needs more work, I think.

JLo said on 6:29PM 11-24-2008

Yah it seems like a pretty good idea. I like the transparency feature of this.

Some things I looks forward to in the future:
- Customizable hotkeys
- Better CPU optimization
- Maybe browsing history?

JLo said on 6:30PM 11-24-2008

I love the concept. But it does take a rather large amount of CPU.

In the future I hope to see customizable hotkeys, better CPU optimization, and perhaps visit history.

Horray no more alt tabbing \o/

tamakino said on 6:46PM 12-01-2008

^ Found this on the forums regarding the large CPU usage:

"Hello everyone, thank you for letting us know your CPU issues. Our team will be releasing a new build in the next week that will address this automatically. We will update you once the new build is available.

For now there is a Fix to this problem: After you have started Rogue, open the task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and kill a process called GG_LIVE.exe. Afterwards Rogue will work almost flawlessly afterwards."

For more details see: http://forums.gotgame.com/index.php?showtopic=642