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Stronghold
My trial was a joke. The judge, the jury, my idiot lawyers? They’re dead men – they just don’t know it yet. When I get out of here, what I’ve got planned will make that spree in Millennium City look like a preschooler play date.
I started planning my escape the second they handed my sentence down. But then the guards slapped those...
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A new build of the 1.2 patch hit the test center tonight. Lots of good things coming. among them is marksmen balancing.
here are a few other tidbits
In-Game Mail
Characters can now send and receive mail from any other character, including characters within the same account. Mail consists of text messages, and one item of any size and any amount of...
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There's a new PTR build available and we have updated you all night long with what's new and changed. Below you can see a compiled list of everything new and changed.
Table of Contents
1 New Items and Gems
2 New enchants on the Tournament Server
3 Public Test Realms Changes
4 Changes to Alchemy
5 Spell Changes
6 New items (Black War Elekk & New...
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Blizzard introduced in the last PTR build, among with the addition of new PvE bosses voices files (including Kil'Jaeden death, emerge, Anveena Event etc.. can find them here if you're interested) a new way to PvP in World of Warcraft called "the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament".
What is this "2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament" you...
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SwitchBlade, the cutting-edge software that brings a fully configured game controller experience to the most popular PC games, is offering one of the most powerful gaming PC laptop in the universe.
Time is running out, hurry up and enter now - don't miss out!
Demand Only The Best Graphics
The Area-51® m15x contains the world’s most powerful...
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Make sure you're signed up at the official Stargate Worlds forums to have an early chance at being chosen for the beta testing.
Stargate Worlds Forum members have the first chance to become a candidate for beta consideration!
Senior Community Manager Katie Postma made the exciting announcement in the forum ...
Until there is a beta capture...
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More information is out about the upcoming Game Update 43. Some more details surrounding the new group looting options (posted about it here previously) was published, also, harvesting changes and news of new transportation bells. New NPCs will be included in this update as well as revamps to The Ironforge Exchange.
There's more...
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The team behind Dungeons & Dragons Online are offering old players 6 days of free play with increased experiende gain (25%).
Dungeons & Dragons Online™: Stormreach™ (DDO) is celebrating its second anniversary! To mark this special occasion, we're inviting our previous players to come and enjoy all of the new DDO content for FREE from March...
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The creative writers over at the official Tabula Rasa website have published a guide for operating the AFS standard issue crafting station.
The first step to crafting in Tabula Rasa is to make your way to a Crafting Station. These stations are located in most every major AFS camp. Schematics require specific abilities located in the Recruit...
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MMORPG.com have taken a closer look at Mabinogi.
First up, some company backstory. Once upon a time, there was a South Korean company named Nexon. Nexon has always been an industry pioneer: from publishing one of the first graphic based MMOs, to blazing the trail of the free to play model, they earned every ounce of success they gained. Nexon...
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This friday the development team behind Tabula Rasa explain their ongoing development plans.
How we are dividing our current development efforts:
1/3 of the effort is being spent on fixing bugs. We hate them, you hate them, and we’ll spend a good portion of our time getting rid of them.
1/3 of the effort is being spent on new features. New...
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Video Games Live - The Spectacular Concert Event from the USA for the First Time in Germany
Spectacular light effects, interludes of interactive gaming and a top-class symphony orchestra - this is what makes up Video Games Live (VGL), the world's most successful concert series featuring game music. This year for the first time, the classic event...
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Global Online Gaming Leader NCsoft Europe Selects Sana Security to Give Gamers Highest Level of Online Security with Least Impact on Precious CPU Resources.
Sana's powerful, behavior-based security technology protects gamers from attacks on non-gaming vulnerabilities while online.
Friday 29th February/... London, UK - Sana Security, Inc., the...
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Fight the post-GDC lull with Requiem: Bloodymare's most intense trailer to date. If blood-stained broadswords slicing through monstrous abominations are your cup of tea, this is for you. Trailer can be seen below!
Hordes of gamers have been thrust into the nightmare since Requiem's closed beta started Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. PST. These brave souls are...
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Disney Online has just announced the launch of new content for Pirates of the Caribbean Online. These updates include new customization options, the addition of new stores for tattoos, jewelry, and tailoring, as well as the addition of emotes and new updates to the Lookout System. See below for some screenshot!
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Winter is almost over,
New Lunia has launched,
It's time to celebrate...
With a MASSIVE PvP SNOWBALL FIGHT and a NEW CASH ITEM SHOP!
Snowball Fight
Ever wonder what it's like to look thru 2 eyes made of coal, only to see a buck-toothed rabbit gnawing on your nose? Ok, maybe it's just me.
Nevertheless, you need to get in on the freezing-cold...
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In the Misty Mountains, far above the hidden Elf-refuge of Rivendell, lies the entrance to one of the strongest goblin-kingdoms remaining in Middle-earth. Called Goblin-town by its vile inhabitants, this subterranean realm was once ruled by an evil creature who called himself the Great Goblin, until he met his doom at the hands of Gandalf the...
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Monumental Partners with Alchemic Dream to Offer Management, Events, Customer Support and Localisation Services.
Nottingham, UK. 28 February 2008 - Online Games specialist Alchemic Dream, Inc is proud to announce its partnership with Online Game, Virtual World and Technology Developer Monumental Games.
Alchemic Dream, Inc. offers a set of...
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This video isn't exactly new, but it recently resurfaced. It is definitely worth a look. You can see gameplay and scenery. It features the music band Within Temptation who also made in-game music. Check it out below, uploaded to Curse.
This video is a great preview to see what there is to come. We're keeping a close eye on The Chronicles of...
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The February issue of the Warhammer Online newsletter is out.
Table of Contents
1 Keeps and Sieges
2 Player Quotes from Beta
3 Development Diary -- Renown
4 Scenarios 101
5 Career Mastery Updates
6 Army Leader Profiles -- Leaders of Order
7 War Cinematic #2! -- More Details
8 Zone Overview -- Saphery
9 New Concept Art -- Inevitable City NPCs
10...
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The CEO of Activision speaks of how much money it would take to have a chance (note: chance) to overcome World of Warcraft. This is just a chance too. Not even something that is a given.
CEO admits MMOs could be "an insurmountable product category" for publishers.
Speaking at an investor meeting, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has said that he...
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Where Are You, My Beloved One
ATB MMORPG is believed to be more suitable for those female players who seem to prefer lovely and peaceful games more. And ATB MMORPG involves more team work, tactic and communication between players. This is why ATB MMORPG is still popular among those 3D great hits.
Elf Online (
http://elf.happymmo.com) is such an...
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Stratics got a new developer chat with the developers of Lord of the Rings Online available. It's a great read. You can check it out below, formatted and everything!
Brannoc - Welcome to today's House of Commons chat with the developers of Lord of the Rings Online!
Brannoc - To submit a question type /msg Brannoc My question here! -...
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They recently applied a hotfix to the live servers of Tabula Rasa. Main reason for this being issues with video resolution settings.
We have applied the following hotfix to the live servers:
Added respec for Spy characters.
After changing the game resolution to a specific resolution (ex: 1280x768 (Wide)), exiting the client, and restarting...
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There's an interesting article from the official Guild Wars website made by a long-time player.
Special note: Each State of the Game presents the opinions and insights of one game observer. These observations are personal in nature and do not reflect the opinions of ArenaNet. While ArenaNet does review each State of the Game article to assure...
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The team behind Pirates of the Burning Sea covers how they plan to make PVP more accessible to a wider range of players. Basically, their goal is that you should be able to involve yourself in PVP without the risk at losing your hard earned ship.
One of the things we’re most proud of in Pirates of the Burning Sea is our ship to ship PvP. We...
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With the weather warming up and the sun's rays bathing Master's bedroom in toasty goodness, all I want to do is lie down and--Zzz...Zzzzzz...
Whoops! I almost brought shame to the entire Moogle race by sleeping on the job, kupo. The reason I'm here is to tell you all about this year's Egg Hunt!
The Egg Hunt is coming soon to all three nations,...
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Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa World Builder, Tom Potter, discusses creation of the Sanctus Grotto instance.
Thursday 28th February/Brighton, UK... Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa World Builder, Tom Potter, looks back over the development of the Sanctus Grotto Instance.
Sanctus Grotto was an instance that was in development for some time before I...
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2008 promises to be a big year for the MMO space with Warhammer Online and Age of Conan storming the fantasy genre, but at the center of the science fiction arm of MMO gaming right now is a franchise that has sat with such science fiction classics as Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
In 2006, Cheyenne Mountain...
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Patch notes on EU and US official websites have been updated with the new changes from the latest PTR build (7979), the most surprising change in this build is the Karazhan attunement that got removed, here are all the changes :
Druid
Lifebloom: the healing coefficient has been reduced. This spell will no longer cause error messages...
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Every month EA Mythic picks a fansite for people to submit their questions for the next Newsletter's Grab Bag. This month is Warhammer Alliance's turn and the subject is Capital Cities. You can submit your questions in Missy's thread
Have a burning question regarding Cities that you’re just dying to get answered by a real Warhammer Online dev?...
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The 2.4 PTR was patched again today with lots of spell additions, including new Alchemist Stones for each play type (Tank, Healer, Magic DPS, Melee DPS), as well as new jewelcrafting gems! Check out the spells below; you can view the materials required for each of the new items, and of course as soon as we get the item data, we'll bring it to...
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The latest issue of the Curse newsletter -- the Curse Word -- is now available. If you've subscribed to our newsletter, be sure to check your inbox, as this newsletter contains lots of great content!
What's in it, you ask? Here's a quick list!
Major feature: Magisters' Terrace Walkthrough
Feature: Stargate Worlds Interview
Feature: Lunia...
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New PTR build usually means new items and other delicious changes and updates. So far we've discovered new spells. And now we have a list of new items below.
Do you want to help out and discover new items for WOWDB too? Download the Curse Client!
New Alchemy Stones
Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone
Redeemer's Alchemist Stone
Guardian's Alchemist...
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Silverlode Interactive opened its servers to all players for SAGA-- the persistent world MMORTS. We also have a video of Saga's gameplay available below.
The World’s First Collectible MMORTS entered Open Beta testing on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008. All players who sign up at www.playsaga.com will receive accounts, allowing them to create nations...
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Most know by now that it's pretty hard to get into the Age of Conan beta test. Funcom is aware of this and have reserved a number of keys to the General Beta of Age of Conan for the best beta prayers to the Hyborian gods.
They recently announced a contest - where anyone can enter to have a chance on obtaining a beta key.
Sometimes all you can...
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Silence. The seas are calm. Suddenly, on the horizon, a ship appears. Followed by a hundred others. The French are coming, and I'm all that stands in their way. I will NOT allow them to take this port. I will die a thousand deaths before they take control of Bartica away from me. I am an Englishman, and this is my story.
My name is Clackling, and...
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A respec was not given out with version 1.5, but we are still discussing if we're able to give one out to Spies (as they were affected most with the last patch). We are investigating what it will entail to do this, so please stay tuned for updates.
In our next publish (version 1.6), we are making some exciting changes that will allow players to...
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NEW DEAL SEES RICHARD GARRIOTT'S TABULA RASA SECURE 4th PLACE IN RETAIL CHARTS
Wednesday 27th February/... Brighton, England – Leading online games publisher NCsoft® Europe today confirmed details of their distribution network within Russia. Working with three of Russia’s premiere distribution companies, NCsoft has formed a solid network for their...
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The Tabula Rasa team recently created a video walkthrough of some creature AI enhancements going to the game. Check it out below!
creature AI enhancements var FO_243 = { movie:"
http://dev.curse-gaming.com/static/flash/flvplayer.swf", width:"500", ...
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This afternoon, Chaos is once more trying to invade the world of Faeo! Gungls and their UyarrMO leaders are swarming across Faeo. Humans and Magmars must find them and rip our their hearts. Your work in destroying Chaos will not go unnoticed - the Dragons of Faeo have promised to reward any warrior who brings a Gungl Heart and lays it at their...
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Today we're happy to announce the latest 2.4 content available here on Curse.com! Both Enob and Qupe have been hard at work writing a guide to Magisters' Terrace, and it has culminated today with the release of this comprehensive walkthrough of the zone! Included in the walkthrough is information on completing the quest chain which unlocks...
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Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence.
The Reynard project will...
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There's many upcoming improvements made to the User Interface of Pirates of the Burning Sea.
Some of the improvements they are adding:
Chat bubbles
New chat box art
Improved tabs and notifications
De-spamification
Further tabs and customization improvements
Spam reporting (and other goodies) in chat
Floating names
Chat focus and control...
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Cryptic Studios -- the guys behind City of Heroes/Villains -- didn't just drop the bomb on one MMO at GDC. They dropped hints at another sci-fi based MMO.
Massively.com have reported that Jack Emmert -- Cryptic honcho -- has dropped a hint at a sci-fi MMO that they aren't going to name just yet. I know what it could be...
Jack Emmert, Chief...
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Since the announcement that P2 have dropped Star Trek Online -- and now appear to be closing their doors entirely -- the Star Trek community have been hoping and praying that the new dev team would come forward sooner rather than later.
It seems that whoever they are (and I suspect it is Cryptic) aren't of the same mind and obviously haven't been...
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Adjustments and additions to fellows have been scheduled for the next version update.
Some of these changes are as follows:
Magic and other abilities you use on party members will now also benefit the fellow you summoned.
Fellows will be able to use a greater variety of equipment.
Fellows will no longer use the following weapon...
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We're very happy to announce that The Library: Items & Equipment database is now current. This is an ongoing work in progress, as many of the items still need screenshots and there are more items to add to the Miscellaneous categories, but we wanted to share what we have completed thus far. We hope you enjoy the changes!
Check out the official...
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Those looking for the next 'green' thing in terms of single-GPU graphics cards will have will soon be getting the GeForce 9800 GTX which is based on the 65nm G92-420 chip. This dual-slot high-end beastie will come to fill the gap between the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and 9800 GX2 and will support DirectX 10(.0), OpenGL 2.1 and Triple-SLI.
Set to be...
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Welcome to Bey’s Retreat
Bey’s Retreat is the unapproachable stronghold to which the Corsairs of the Main escape when the national navies and Brethren pirates chase them down. It is a series of powerful fortresses built into a small island near Caracas, watched over by the most ruthless and dangerous Corsairs in the Caribbean. The Spanish have...
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