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Jayde, a System Designer of Funcom, who's working on Age of Conan posted a follow-up to information released the 30th May regarding upcoming changes and improvements to the Demonologist and Necromancer classes. This time it's only the Necromancer class who's getting mentioned.
Jayde mention that there's a significant change in the works that...
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Inno-Wear who is a well known specialist in textile products for videogames has acquired the license to develop products for Age of Conan. The press release they just posted mention how the launch and the majority of enthusiastic reviews has really put Age of Conan in the spotlight as it continue to grow and become further popular among gamers...
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The official Mortal Online site recently posted an overview of their skills and attributes system. We announced Mortal Online being in development almost a month ago.
Apparently the skill system in Mortal Online is very dynamic and it plays a central role of the game. Quoting their site, "it define what you can and cannot do in the...
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Svein Erik "Sharum" Jenset, Lead BCC Designer at Funcom Oslo AS, gave his point of view about players concerns with the Mount System in Age of Conan.
Greetings fellow Hyborian Adventurers!
There has been a lot of activity lately, both on these boards and in-game, due to the way Mounts are currently performing in Age of Conan. While there has...
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Currently the new and free expansion, Empyrean Age is being deployed. Parts of the EVE Online site is disabled as CCP Games work on having the game patched and ready for the new age.
Due to parts of the site being unavailable as the patch is being deployed, CCP Games have launched a page where they post constant updates and interesting tidbits...
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Our hard working developers have finalized the work on getting the CurseForge Forums ready and to work with the same login system CurseForge and Curse use. To be perfectly honest, we wanted the forums ready earlier, but you know how it is, problems do arise and things get delayed. Enough of that, the forums have finally been released and we...
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The tricks and system acrobatics of Steet Gears was just announced. We've posted about Street Gears in the past, first announced it and added it to Curse then we published information about the races.
Based on a persistent manga-style universe, Street Gears is a massively multiplayer roller game where players can challenge each others in races...
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Artists working on EverQuest and EverQuest 2 have six of their pieces showcased in the well known EXPOSÉ 6 digital art book. I've always found artwork like this quite amazing and not being an artist myself, I can't even begin to imagine the effort put into art like this. Quite breathtaking and I respect artists so much for being able to come up...
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Xanae a longtime contributor to Curse.com posted a comment to the news earlier today where we told you about the new patch that was deployed today. Xanae's comment list all undocumented changes that has been discovered in the recent patch and some of the things unveiled are major improvements and I'm surprised they were forgotten to be included...
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US doctor says being addicted to MMOs is more shameful than 'x-rated' material addiction.
Addiction to MMOs can be a very serious thing, but on the other hand some doctors tend to take it a little bit too far. It's the same with the whole debate about video games turning people into violent beings. That couldn't be further from the truth if you...
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Recently PC Gamer interviewed Tom Chilton alias Kalgan, one of three Lead Designer's. Kalgan usually focus on PVP oriented things and is known as the 'Blizzard PVP guru'. If you're able to buy PC Gamer in a store near you, I highly recommend you get the latest issue, since it's filled with Lich King goodness.
One of the things that Kalgan unveil...
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Age of Conan just got patched again. Funcom is working very hard on improving the game and fixing issues that appear. This time there's numerous of bug fixes and players should find many of the previous frustrations such as tooltips showing up twice, trading with other players will now have the items traded showing up in the correct item tab. It...
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Up until now, information on Stargate Worlds - CMEs new sci-fi MMO- hasn't been very revealing. We've been blessed with a few nice concepts and screen shots but not much in the way of solid evidence.
It seems that wheels are starting to turn at FireSky and CME as FireSky announce they will be revealing lots of juicy information over the coming...
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We're now eight days into June and the weather have been great. Well, at least in this part of the world. Great weather usually does not cope too well with watching videos, however, we still have a couple of interesting videos in this recap. By the way, if you have an idea of a video you'd like to see us to post in our Cursinema's, please do...
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The details about the EvE Online fan gathering, EVE Fanfest 2008 has been announced. CCP Games also published information about special travel packages that's been arranged, making it much cheaper and smooth to attend to the Fan Fest. If you're new to this whole Fanfest thing, it's something that CCP Games have held for four years and it's...
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About a week ago the Icelandic CCP Games announced that they are going to release yet another major update to their praised Sci-Fi MMO Eve Online. The company have named it Empyrean Age and we've posted about it here, here and here previously.
Also as you can probably tell from the news cast in the trailers below, it's far from peace that...
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Curse.com is happy to reveal that we're giving away keys for the upcoming Closed Beta 3 of Florensia. It's scheduled to begin the 10th June. Only registered members of our community can acquire a key. If you're not registered with Curse.com yet, sign up for a Curse.com account here.
Keys will be distributed via our Private Messaging system. ...
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Champions Online is the first self-published MMORPG from the people behind City of Heroes, Cryptic Studios.
Information about soloing in Champions Online was recently released on their website and there's a mention about something called The Omega System. Interesting and mysterious, since they also say that the details are not finalized yet. ...
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With the news of Risen, a famous US high end guild disbanding in March this year and fairly recently another very famous US guild, Death and Taxes which also disbanded (in May), you start to wonder why this is happening. There's many obvious answers to this, but there's also several other reasons you might not think about. On the other hand,...
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Blizzard continue the maintenance of the official World of Warcraft website. They also mention they are making updates to it to further enhance the user experience and security, not to mention the performance. As a result of the maintenance some features might become unavailable. This is also the reason for some of the issues players have...
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Blizzard have published an article with tips and information on how to raise your reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive. The article cover quests and information of many different locations; Isle of Quel'danas, Shattrath City (which is also where the very first quest begins), Shadowmoon Valley, Terokkar Forest, Nagrand, Blade's Edge...
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Flying Lab Software have published a preview of the UI in Patch 1.5. Quite a bit of energy have been put into redefining the UI of Pirates of the Burning Sea. The goal is for them to provide players with a much more clean user experience, and we all know (or, at least I do!) having a nice UI to play with really makes the experience so much...
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On Tuesday, 10th June the new expansion, Empyrean Age will be deployed. The downtime is expected to be for at least twenty-four (24) hours. It's worth it, though! This expansion is huge and there's a lot of awesome changes and additions made to Eve Online.
We've posted information about Empyrean Age previously here and here. Worth to check...
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The Funcom team have published an interview with the composer of the excellent music in Age of Conan. The overall impression as far as I've gathered is that the music in Age of Conan is extremely well made and it fits perfectly with the world of Hyboria.
Do you enjoy the music in Age of Conan? Does it fit the areas you explore and hunt in? ...
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Age of Conan is doing great and Funcom just released further information about how the sales are going.
Standard edition sold out in numerous territories, hundreds of thousands additional copies now shipping - - Officially number one on the charts in all major markets
So far sales data is indicating that Age of Conan is the fastest selling MMO...
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They are finally introducing new Notorious Monsters to areas in the upcoming expansion pack, Treasures of Aht Urhgan. This expansion is will be available in the forthcoming version update.
Another change is that it will be much more simplified on how to access the battlefields of these Notorious Monsters, making it easier and more pleasant for...
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Eight new screenshots from the very recently released Module 7: The Way of the Monk for Dungeons & Dragons Online was released by Turbine today.
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We've just added support for uploading of screenshots to The Age of Conan Armory. Share your best screenshots with the world! You can view the latest submitted screenshots too. We approve screenshots as soon as possible and this is a perfect way to show just how good you are at taking "photos" of Hyboria.
Age of Conan Source is our AoC...
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A small update will be out for Age of Conan soon. It contain several bug fixes and smaller changes. As Funcom states, this is only a small update and there's a lot of bigger things in the works alongside of this.
Greetings,
Just wanted to toss a little update on some of the things that we are working on at the moment. This rough list of issues...
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New Free-to-Play-MMOG with countless features available before Christmas.
With an extensive range of features Runes of Magic prepares to redefine the standard of free-to-play MMO games. The German version of the sophisticated fantasy adventure will come to light even before Christmas 2008. The English version will be released soon afterwards....
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It's taken a long time, but BlizzCast Episode 3 is now available. It's quite interesting and contain a lot of neat information, definitely worth the wait and to listen to and/or read the transcript.
Episode 3 of BlizzCast takes us deeper into the development of both StarCraft II and Wrath of the Lich King. We start out interviewing Dustin...
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We just added the MMO Estiah to our Free to Play portal.
Estiah is a free massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It highly relies on AJAX technology to bring you rich and varied game experiences.
Fast action responses and a well-thought GUI were our main goal when we designed our game. Even being a text-based game, it offers decent...
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NEW YORK -- Sandra Day O'Connor is going from Supreme Court justice to game maker.
Delivering the keynote address Wednesday at the annual Games For Change conference at Parsons The New School For Design, O'Connor detailed a project she is spearheading called Our Courts, which she described as an "online, interactive civic education project for...
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NCsoft has re-launched of the Aion: The Tower of Eternity website, aiononline.com. Learn all about the hot new upcoming fantasy MMORPG in one place. Special topics of interest include a description of the game world, aerial combat, PvPvE, character customization and more. The new website also features lots of new imagery and the first entries in...
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A new, feature-packed update to the free-to-play MMORPG Secret of the Solstice is now available.
Players eager to further customize their appearance should visit Milly's Hair Salon in Brynhilld, where they can choose from a variety of new hair styles and colors to better represent themselves in-game.
Back by popular demand, the new patch also...
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Burda:ic have announced that the Closed Beta 3 of Florensia will probably start on June 10 and last around one week. A new game client can be downloaded for free from June 9 on.
http://www.florensia.eu/florensia/pag.../multimedia.html
Some announced and other unexpected changes have taken place in the meantime. Florensia will now be available in...
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Blizzard have updated their Wrath of the Lich King bestiary with a new creatute, The Magnataur.
Magnataur have the torso of a giant attached to the body of a mammoth. This peculiar appearance has sparked speculation that their race might be related to centaur or even keepers of the grove. Many wonder if these races share a common ancestor,...
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The Warrior Epic CB Build has been updated to v1.022. Here is the changelog:
Game Play and Mechanics
Stun Animations added to several Aberasian Beasts
Increased Bathook Size and Fixed it's Attacks
Red City Boss Animation Fixed
Sound Effects Updated for All Characters
Devotress Skill: Weeping Touch no longer stops movement after use
Fixed...
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There's a very interesting article that list 50 lessons "learned" in Virtual Worlds over at kzero.co.uk.
I’ve been involved in virtual worlds for 18 months now. During this time I’ve developed relationships with virtual world operators, companies delving in-world, active individuals living inside them and other organisations and people trying to...
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In the July issue of PC Gamer you can get an exclusive Age of Conan item that teleport you back to your home city every 24 hour.
What's your thoughts on Funcom giving out items like this? I will get myself a copy of the July issue, that's for sure, but, do you think it's a good thing to put nice and useful items like these to only be obtainable...
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Check out an early preview of the organizations in Earthrise.
Hello everyone!
This week we'll look into the lore of Earthrise and introduce you to just some of the "organizations" in the world that players will be able to aid in their ambitious plans. By doing favors for these organizations, players are able to gain access to "design technology"...
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Florensia Closed Beta 3 should be out soon. We will give away 3000 Florensia Closed Beta 3 keys soon. Stay tuned.
Dear players,
we would like to inform you that the patches we created together with Netts are almost done. We are currently planning to launch the new client on June 9 in the late afternoon (Time zones / UTC+2 Central European...
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Arena Tournament Second Qualifier Begins
Phase 1 of the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament's second qualification round has begun. Tournament participants have two weeks to hone their strategies, experiment with various team compositions, and practice their teamwork. To track the progress of your team and those of your competition, please...
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Time Warner Inc. and GGV Capital Join Existing Partners in Fueling Online Game Leader's Growth
WESTWOOD, MA - June 4, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in equity financing. Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and GGV Capital, a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the U.S. and China, led the...
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IGG (
http://www.igg.com/) has prepared a series of events for Wonderland Online (
http://wl.igg.com/) in order to celebrate IGG’s 2nd anniversary.
During IGG’s 2nd anniversary period, much gold, various items and double Exp will be given out. Players can even enjoy online PK.
For more details please visit:
http://wl.igg.com/event/anniversary
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A Half Year Experience - Elf Online
http://elf.happymmo.com Veteran Interview
How is it that a single game can acquire a player base of over 1 million subscribing members in China, Marlbor0, a veteran player from Elf Online
http://elf.happymmo.com Chinese version, explains this phenomenon is simply due to the innovative Semi-ATB pk and guild war...
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It appears as if Blizzard has updated the official Death Knight page on the Wrath of the Lich King website.
The major changes are to the Death Knight's talent trees. There's no longer a heavy focus on tanking in one specific tree; instead, each tree will be capable of offering a different flavor of DPS capability as well as tanking ability.
This...
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Trion World Network, Inc announced have announced that they are developing a Fantasy MMO under the lead of Jon Van Caneghem -- who created two RPG and Strategy series, Heroes of Might & Magic and Might & Magic.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trion World Network, Inc. (Trion), the publisher and developer of connected games and...
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Second Life will soon be fully playable on your mobile phone!
Demanding a better-than-average processor, a 1024x768 screen resolution, a boatload of RAM, and a strong video card just to take part, it's hard to believe that Second Life, the virtual world developed by Linden Lab (download for Windows and Mac), could ever survive on a mobile...
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NCsoft has released many new screenshots from their giant robot fightning game, Exteel. Along with this, there's also a dev paper that provide strategy tips for the Trooper Mechanaught, a variety of weapons and the "Last Stand" battle mode.
The Trooper Mechanaught – Weapon Highlights – Battle Mode: Last Stand
Following the entry- and low-tier...
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