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1UP.com is reporting that South Park's "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - an episode which aired late last year - was awarded the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at this year's Emmy Awards.
1UP wrote:
South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft," which famously skewered MMORPG World of Warcraft and its many subscribers late last year, was...
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This morning Square Enix released a new update for Final Fantasy XI Online. Included in the update is a new battle system called Pankration.
The first question that comes to mind has to be "What is Pankration?" It dates back to the Greek Olympic games in 648 BC, where it was first introduced. Historians believe that this Greek sport was one of the...
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There are two things of note this morning on the Chronicles of Spellborn website. Firstly there is a new Game Design journal entitled "Bodyslots" for everyone to pore over. Bodyslots, written by El Drijver, covers the Bodyslot system and how players equip bodyslot items in their bodyslot action bar before combat. There are also images available to...
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There was a patch this weekend to Fury which include revamps to the experience required to obtain certain ranks - making some easier and some harder - as well as a number of other additions, changes and fixes. You can check out the notes in full below.
Patch Notes - 8 September 2007
Stability
Made several changes to improve server stability and...
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The past week was a very busy one for EA Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot as they released a brand new game version. You can also find the weekly articles on the Camelot Herald, so we'd like to help you find things more quickly by compiling everything into one update!
The week's flurry of activity kicked off on Tuesday with The Scroll of Valor. On...
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About the Legions
1 Legions Rank
The higher the legions’ rank is, the larger its warehouse and the more members its can have. At the same time, the higher the legions’ rank is, the more it has to pay to the NPC as management fee.
2 Legions Warehouse
Normal members can only put items into the legions warehouse. Only the administrator can...
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Here, IGG has released an overview of its guild system in Zu Online
http://zu.igg.com
A “guild” refers to a spontaneous organization made up of players in Zu，they communicate with other fellows, and do contribution to consolidate their own guild, thus laying foundation for future triumph.
In a guild, “official rank” stands for your status position...
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Curse Guild, now known as Meet your makers takes you on a special trip through all encounters of the Black Temple.
Curse : Black Temple var FO_102 = { movie:"
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While Frogster Interactive and Co-Publisher Yusho are preparing for the official launch of Bounty Bay Online another content update was released.
This update once again adds exclusive new quests and NPC's to Bounty Bay Online offering additional adventures for all players. A new Beginner Quest offers more opportunities to get into the game and the...
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Greetings,
As per usual, I am the bringer of good news!
A while back, we announced that we would be partnering with Wikia to bring you all the best and most in depth wiki content for any of your games. The list of wikis we are setting up with Wikia is already pretty extensive, covering every game we have a major portal for. While we are constantly...
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Remember BenX? The Belgian movie that featured scenes with Archlord in-game footage.
On the Montreal movie festival, BenX won several awards including:
"Grand Prix des Ameriques"
"Price of the Public"
"Price of the oecumenical jury"
About BenX:
Ben is different.
His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favourite online computer game...
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Summary: The9 (Nasdaq: NCTY) opened expansion pack "The Burning Crusade" for World of Warcraft (WoW China) on September 6 at about 10:40 am. A player named "SilverDragon"(Hunter) in the seventh server started to level-up at 11:20 am September 6 and reached the maximum level 70 at 10:48 am September 7. The gamer created a new record for leveling...
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Soundtracks designed for video games have evolved a lot since the first synthesized beep was created years ago. Indeed, music in the interactive gaming industry has gone a long way. Now you can hear entire musical scores dedicated for a single game.
EMI Classics has pushed this concept further as they, Video Games Live and IMG Artist, are planning...
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Singapore invests US$ 330 million to gaming, plans to explore further
During the first ever Games Convention Asia Conference (GC Asia Conference) held in Singapore, many countries proved how the industry is also strong in Asia outside Japan. Singapore, known as a big market for MMORPGs, even took a step forward to announce that they're ready to...
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This is a brief introduction of Talent System in Zu Online
http://zu.igg.comreleased.
When player reach LVL 30, you will get ten points of talent and get one point every three years. The points can be distributed on the following four abilities:
Trinket: Influence your little trinket number. Every ten talent points for a trinket slot. The more...
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So with September 5th Hotfix brought an update to allow Guilds to purchase and Guildhall Plot and start there construction. Within hours of the patch being live our guild have managed to get an plot and the construction has started.
Along with this update the long awaited Brotherhood system has gone live. I do think this system will work well with...
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the protoss mothership got tweaked again and lost it's Blackhole skill (prolly reserved for the hero-class mothership that is avaiable only in campaign mode?)
in return, construction of the protoss mothership is not restricted to 1. The AoE projectile disruptor-like thingy can now be casted anywhere around the mothership within a specific range....
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NC Soft announced the official release date for Tabula Rasa, October 19h will the day when all begin.
Note:
that pre-order costumer will get a 3 days headstart, starting October 16th.
Sidenote:
Pre-order also get access to the Close beta for the momment
See the official article from www.rgtr.com for more detail.
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The 2nd closed beta of Age of Armor has lasted for nearly one week, and it received its first group of level 30+ players. But there are still many players that are around level 15. To let more people enjoy the confrontainment of Age of Armor, we add a brand new training system in the game-- the Master and Apprentice System. Freshman can ask high...
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From a Danish forum I was able to obtain info regarding the marketing concerned with the release of the next WoW expansion.
Alledgely someone involved in making banner commercials for large portals on the internet has been approached by Blizz marketing who wants them to have something ready to be posted from Nov. 1st this year and last until x-mas...
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The Open beta for Bounty Bay online is already a hit with the fans, but this hasn’t stopped Frogster Interactive and Co-Publisher Yusho from implementing new content to make life on the seven seas even more fun.
The current update includes the first pet bait quest, giving players to possibility to get a pet as a companion on their travels. The...
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IGG
http://www.igg.com has announced a new client patch of Tales of Pirates Online
http://top.igg.com. Let's take a quick look changing of this update version patch. In this updating, some new features have been added as below:
1. New Sever
The eleventh sever named Red Sea is opened in the second region of Tales of Pirates on Wednesday, September...
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The two-week Chinese Valentine’s Day Activity has successfully come to an end. In this activity, we have received a variety of lovely messages from players throughout the world. Our forum has been filled with warm thoughts of love and well wishes.
After careful discussion and evaluation, the official has decided to send a special Valentines Gift...
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There was a decent amount of activity on the official WoW forums today - both US and EU - so we have a quick recap of the day's events.
US Forums
Drysc on Season 3 weapons having a rating requirement.
Drysc wrote:
A weapon isn't going to keep your 1300 team from competing with the best teams.
The change is being made to help keep the nice PvP...
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It's that time of the week again where we take a look at the hot activity on the Curse Blogs section. Lythria and matticus kicked off The Daily Quest last week and later added Veldock to the blogging crew, so it's definitely worth taking a look.
That's not all the activity on the Blog section though, so let's get started!
Lythria tackles a very...
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Last week's UO news consisted of client patches for both the 2D Client and the Kingdom Reborn Client, an update about the ability to order a DVD version of the Kingdom Reborn Installer if you don't want to wait for the download, as well as the typical Five on Friday you see every week on the UOHerald.
A couple pieces from Friday's FoF(which was...
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Ever wanted to design an MMO? If so, then here's your chance to get in on the ground floor. Petroglyph Games - an RTS developer known for Star Wars: Empire at War, its expansion Forces of Corruption, and the soon-to-be-released Universe at War: Earth Assault - is hiring an MMO Game Designer, as found on Gamasutra's JobSeeker. Something odd with...
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It appears that Electronic Arts editing their wiki's history has been one-upped. MaxConsole is reporting that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe was caught red handed editing the Halo Wikipedia entry by adding in the line "Although it wont look any better than Halo 2."
And of course, the changes can be viewed thanks to the revision history, but...
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After the second region released in Tales of Pirates
http://top.igg.com, IGG
http://www.igg.com are pleased to announce that a new server named Red Sea will be launched in this region on September 5th in order to meet the need of number increasing as well as offering better services for our players.
Besides, to celebrate the launch of new server,...
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IGG has announced a new PK system of Zu Online
http://zu.igg.comrecently, let’s take a quick look.
PK is short for Player Kill，which is usually used to name the fight between players. The player whose level is below 31 is protected from being killed; also he cannot PK others and cannot be PKed by others. Players can PK in all areas except the safe...
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With the Labor’s Day just around the corner, Voyage Century
http://vc.igg.com is offering a big surprise to all the players. In the city of Athens, the official purchases the goods that players collect in high price. Furthermore, if all players’ goods sold to the official reach 100,000pcs, some rare items will be sold on the official’s booth....
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Hello,
I work for Ankama Games and I write this mail to inform you that:
The MMORPG DOFUS is launching major event: the Amakna Odyssey on the Shika server!
The Town-Crier shouts: “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons of Amakna living under the reign of the Honorable, the Supreme King Allister, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for...
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A college student has posted a blog that will track his research into MMORPG addiction, specifically using World of Warcraft as his base. The paper is being written as a scholarly researched term paper. This is an interactive approach that has seen limited use. Visitors to the blog are encouraged to submit research sources and to write comments...
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The roleplaying Wiki WoWRP.com has released version 2 of its site. Its gotten easier to add new information to it. So if you're a roleplayer and want to share the story of your character/guild etc. This is the place to do it!
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Yes it's here for all of you to enjoy ! The 11th ORLY Show !
We feature the news of the last 2 weeks in full video gallore !
Next to that we review Grid this time, and ofcourse show you where the action is in azeroth.
Hope to see you;
KeeZ
The ORLY Show !
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Today Blizzard unveiled the Scroll of Resurrection program, rewarding players a free month for each ex-subscriber they bring back through use of the program.
If you have old friends who quit playing, this is your chance to bring them back into the game with a 10-day trial and earn a free month of play if they decide to re-subscribe.
You can read...
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This afternoon NCSoft was kind enough to provide us with a guide to one of the worlds in Tabula Rasa - written by the Tabula Rasa Development Team - the planet Foreas. We also have some screenshots and concept art of the planet to whet your appetite; you can either click the links or scroll down below the guide to check them out.
The Tabula Rasa...
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J!NX has added four new class T-Shirts to their lineup of class-specific swag that World of Warcraft players can equip while out on the town.
WoW fans can now purchase Shaman, Paladin, Priest and Druid T-Shirts for Men or Women in sizes S - 4XL for Men and S - 2XL for Women.
Head over to J!NX's Summer 2007 page to check out the designs and of...
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Today NCSoft and ArenaNet launched the first ever expansion for Guild Wars. This title - Eye of the North - takes players back to the game's original continent, Tyria, where a new danger now lurks. The expansion contains many new dungeons, skills, heroes and tons of new armor sets, items weapons and titles. It also includes a great soundtrack,...
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2nd Close Beta of Age of Armor is going to start on 6:00pm (GMT- 5) August 31.
By the time there will be many wonderful events for the players. More surprise, more fun, all are in Age of Armor. Are you ready?!
Please note that the account and the client used in 1st CB is USELESS now.
You can get an account by the following link:...
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The Guild Wars: Eye of the North Soundtrack is now available on
http://www.directsong.com. Registered users even have the opportunity to download the tracks and burn them to a CD!
"This just may be Jeremy Soule’s most accomplished score to date" enthuses Music4Games while SoundtrackNet notes "Soule has crafted an eloquent sound-world."
The...
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Official VA Tech review panel: violent video games not a factor in V-tech shootings
While the world was still reeling from the shock of the horrible tragedy that is the V-Tech shootings, a formal investigation into the murderer's background - as well as what could have been done, and what should be done to prevent anything like this from happening...
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Last night there was another PTR patch which made a few additional changes to 2.2. In addition to the patch notes below, there's the following unconfirmed change:
Death Wish is now a buff rather than a debuff. This means the player can click it off at will.
General
Troll Berserk: The spell haste on this ability was incorrectly too high and has...
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Recently, IGG
http://www.igg.com has released a brand-new Promoter System, which allows Players to earn money while playing.
IGG has developed rapidly this year with the support of Players. Its products keep improving more and more; to keep pace with the increasing demands of the ever growing community of loyal gamers. And it becomes a spotlight...
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Seradon is Live! - 08/29/2007
The merge of Targonor, Florendyl, Flamehammer, and Shidreth was a success! Seradon is live, and the population is booming, so make sure to log in and play!
The Xeth Server is Live! - 08/28/2007
The very first server merge is complete, and Xeth is up and running! Log in and join the growing crowd. Meet new friends,...
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Greetings everyone,
We're currently in the process of doing two very important things to our media servers(the hardware which houses all of the files we host on Curse). One part of the process is upgrading the server hardware itself - which we've done part of today, which is why there have been oddities with images not loading, files not being...
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Voyage Century
http://vc.igg.com will launch its first large guild war soon. The champion will not only has their name immortalized on the Honor Board but also obtain 2 billion silver coins.
A large guild war for the Top Guild of each server will be hosted by the VCO Team. Is your Guild the strongest? Come and prove it.
Application location:...
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Today Turbine announced a free 7-day trial program for Lord of the Rings Online, their critcally acclaimed MMORPG based on the Tolkien-created Middle-earth.
WESTWOOD, MA -- August 29, 2007 -- Turbine, Inc. has launched the official 7-day free trial of The Lord of the Rings OnlineTM: Shadows of AngmarTM (LOTRO). Beginning today, fans in North...
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Last night EVE Online was updated with Revelations 2.2, a fairly large patch that introduced some new ships as well as other changes and additions. You can check out the notes in full below, or by visiting the [Revelations 2.2 Patch Notes] page on
http://www.eve-online.com.
New Ships
Rorqual ORE Capital Ship introduced as described in this Dev...
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For those of you that still play EverQuest(yes - I know you're out there - don't be shy), the game's patching process was changed this morning from the traditional patcher it's used since release some 8 years ago, to the Station LaunchPad - a multi-game platform SoE now incorporates into its game releases. It's a single patcher solution for every...
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