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Salem is one of the most eccentric takes on the MMO genre set to launch during this year, and the development team at developer Seatribe is adding permanent death for the characters in the game in order to persuade players to engage in deeper role playing.
Björn Johannessen, who is the creative director working... |
13 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology in South Korea has announced that it plans to introduce a new set of limitations to the gaming time of minors via new bill.
The underlying concept is called the “Cooling Off System” and will mean that those under the age of 18 would be logged out of any ... |
13 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was released earlier this week on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 by Electronic Arts, after being developed by 38 Studios and Big Huge Games.We’ve already talked in depth about the game during our review, as well as in a few gamer diaries that appeared earlier this week.Now, it’s ti... |
10 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The MMO World of Warcraft is the most successful subscription-based game in the world and the development team in charge of it at Blizzard says that they are still dealing with the consequences of its remarkable success.
Frank Pearce, who is one of the co-founders of Blizzard, stated at the 2012 DICE conference that... |
10 February 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Square Enix has announced that it plans to merge no less than 18 servers for its Final Fantasy XIV MMO during March of this year, making the number of surviving servers just ten.
Gamers who are still engaged with the game will be able to transfer their characters to a new game worl... |
10 February 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Both video game developer Bungie and publisher Activision Blizzard have been very tight lipped when it comes to the new project they are collaborating on, but fans of the company behind Halo will be happy to know that progress is being made at an incredible pace.
Despite the upbeat attitude neither of the two compan... |
10 February 2012
07:02 GMT |
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The developers at Sony Online Entertainment working on the MMO DC Universe Online have confirmed that they are planning to allow gamers to directly engage primary antagonist Brainiac in an upcoming content update for the game.
Brainiac was central to the DC Universe Online experience since the game launch in early 2... |
10 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Video game developer Gazillion Entertainment has revealed that Marvel Super Hero Squad Online MMO will be fully voiced and has announced some of the people that will be doing voice work for the game. Chris Cox, Laura Bailey and Phil Lamarr have so far been hired to provide voice over as some of the most recognizable... |
9 February 2012
09:24 GMT |
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A number of players who are engaged with the Player versus Player aspect of the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have reported a number of issues with the planet Ilum, saying that kills are sometimes not registered and that daily and weekly quests requirements cannot be met and no rewards are offered.
It seems that t... |
9 February 2012
05:57 GMT |
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The developers at Adhesive Games have announced that they are planning to launch Hawken , their indie developed mech simulation, on December 12 of this year, using a free-to-play business model.
The developer has created a new entity, called Meteor Games, which is set to handle the publishing duties for the new game... |
8 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Bigpoint has announced that the free-to-play MMO Battlestar Galactica is getting a new type of ship, the Carrier, which will enter a space trial until the end of February and will then become a full feature of the game.
The Carriers will be the biggest and most powerful ship to appear in the gam... |
7 February 2012
09:37 GMT |
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The developers at CCP, the company best known for creating the unusual EVE Online MMO, have said that they plan to make their upcoming World of Darkness both a better and a more accessible game than their current big project. Speaking to MMO-oriented site Ten Ton Hammer, Hilmar Pétursson, who is the chief exe... |
6 February 2012
21:21 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that it plans to launch a new series of video guides and weekly features for loyal Star Wars: The Old Republic players, showing them some of the features of the game that they might not be aware of.
Eric Musco, who is the social media coordinator working on the Star Wars MM... |
6 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The development team at Cryptic and publisher Perfect World have announced that the MMO Star Trek Online players will get access to new content on February 11, under the name Episode 4: The 2800. The number refers to the amount of ships that the Jem’Hadar inhabiting and dominating the Gamma Quadrant of the Gal... |
6 February 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the mix between action and role playing created by 38 Studios, Big Huge Games and published by Electronic Arts, is set to be launched during this week and the team working on the game is already thinking about the MMO which they are building using the same game universe. And as players... |
6 February 2012
07:05 GMT |
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After rumors suggested that all development on Dark Millennium Online has been suspended, publisher THQ has confirmed that the MMO might be having some issues as it was announced that it was seeking a partner which can invest part of the resources required to get it launched after March 2013.
Talking to investors, B... |
4 February 2012
04:15 GMT |
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The Walt Disney Company, which has a division dedicated to video game development in Disney Interactive, has now acquired control over UTV, a company based in India which itself holds control over UTV Ignition, the publisher of titles like Deadly Premonition and El Shaddai.
Reports are mentioning that UTV will be de... |
3 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The developers at publisher Square Enix who are working on the Final Fantasy XIV MMO have announced a number of details about the new patch, which was initially set to arrive during the second week of February and has now received another two-week delay. The new update will also deliver seven new classic jobs, compl... |
2 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that it plans to organize the first Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Summit, between March 4 and 6 in Austin at the Double Tree Hotel.
The developers say that guild leaders or their representatives will be able to meet the development team working on Star Wars: The Old Rep... |
2 February 2012
09:02 GMT |
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A report from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in South Korea has suggested that the country might move to ban the accounts of all minor players who spend more than two consecutive hours playing online game or more than three hours during any given day. It seems that representatives from the gaming ... |
1 February 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Sony has announced that EverQuest is set to go free-to-play after 14 years of being a subscription-based MMO.
In a letter addressed to the gaming community, Thom Terrazas, who is the leading producer working on the MMO, stated, “I’m happy to announce that in early March 2012, EverQuest will be going free... |
31 January 2012
07:03 GMT |
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The subscription based MMO is not yet disappearing but the success of the free-to-play model has forced developers to offer players options when it comes to their favorite online experiences, according to a representative of developer Turbine.
Speaking to Eurogamer Adam Mersky, who is the leading executive at Turbin... |
31 January 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Video game developer Turbine and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced that they are working on a new expansion for the MMO The Lord of the Rings Online, which will be called Riders of Rohan and is set to launch at some point during the autumn of this year. The new expansion will allow play... |
27 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Trion Worlds has announced that on Valentine’s Day this year the company will try to get a World Record from Guinness for the biggest amount of virtual marriages that are registered in a 24-hour period, using the MMO Rift as the venue for all the knot tying.
Scott Hartsman, t... |
26 January 2012
22:01 GMT |
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Video game developer ArenaNet has announced that the Jotun, a race already known to fans of the first game, will return in the upcoming Guild Wars 2, although there will be quite a few changes to their behavior and their abilities.
Ree Soesbee, the main writer working on Guild Wars 2 and also in charge of keeping lo... |
26 January 2012
20:31 GMT |
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The developers working on Star Wars: The Old Republic are keen to keep the game subscription-based and believe that there are enough players interested in the MMO genre to power the success of their own product, market leader World of Warcraft and competitors like Rift. James Ohlen, the game director working on Star... |
26 January 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Dust 514, the ambitious new shooter from EVE Online developers CCP, might be ready to launch in early 2012, but the development team working on it believes that the basic structure of the game allows it to work just as easily on a possible PlayStation 3 as it does on current hardware.
Speaking to Develop, Hilmar P&e... |
24 January 2012
22:21 GMT |
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We already know that video game developer Blizzard is working on a whole new MMO project called Titan, and it seems that the new game will be ready to deliver product placement to a number of partners, probably linked to the video game industry.
The official website of Blizzard has a link to a new job recruitment ad... |
24 January 2012
20:31 GMT |
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The developers at BioWare who have created the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have likened the development process for the video game with “teaching elephants to do ballet”, because of the large number of different teams that needed to be coordinated to produce content.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times t... |
23 January 2012
19:51 GMT |
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A market analyst has sparked a run on the shares of video game publisher Electronic Arts after he expressed a number of concerns linked to the future prospects of the recently launched MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.Analyst Todd Mitchell, who is working for Brean Murray Carret & Co has told investors that he had &ld... |
23 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Wargaming.net has announced that all those interested in the upcoming MMO World of Warplanes can now take a look at some of the German flying machines that will be included when the game is launched later during 2012.There will be 19 fully simulated warplanes, including light and heavy fighters, ... |
23 January 2012
10:50 GMT |
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The AbleGamers Foundation, which aims to push forward the cause of gamers that must deal with disabilities, has selected the BioWare made MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic as the Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year for 2011, saying that the game manages to offer a lot of options for gamers who must play with physica... |
23 January 2012
08:07 GMT |
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MMO developer Turbine has introduced a number of new items in its official store for The Lord of the Rings Online which allow those who buy them to get an actual boost to their character abilities, causing a stir among the player base, who is afraid that they can be misused by those who want to get an unfair advantag... |
20 January 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has confirmed that the recently launched big 4.3 update for the Cataclysm expansion for the MMO World of Warcraft is the last big addition to the game before the launch of the next expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.Dave Kosak, who is a lead quest designer working on World of Warcraft, ... |
19 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare has just launched Rise of the Rakghouls, the first major update for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, but the company is keen to let players know that they are not taking it easy from now on and that solid support for the game is planned for the future.The overall aim of the developm... |
19 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The Council of Stellar Management, the player led advocacy group that advises developers CCP on the potential progress of their MMO EVE Online, has released information from the December discussions, showing how the game might change in the near future.The developers have stated that they are aiming to create new con... |
19 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Gazillion Entertainment has announced that it plans to use the Unreal Engine 3 game engine from Epic Games to create the upcoming Marvel Heroes MMO.Jeff Lind, who is the studio director of Gazillion’s Secret Identity Studios, stated, “We love Unreal Engine 3’s streaming system. ... |
19 January 2012
04:27 GMT |
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An analyst has estimated that the total expenditure for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic from publisher Electronic Arts is over 500 million dollars (about 391.1 million Euro), which takes into account both the development and the marketing costs for the project.The estimate comes from Doug Creutz, who is an analys... |
18 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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World of Darkness is one of the MMO projects that CCP, the Nordic developer best known for EVE Online, have long thought about and have not pushed in development and one of the leading developers working on the game has said that one of the biggest inspirations for their project is the old cult classic Vampire: The M... |
18 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The developer of the MMO Star Trek Online has announced that all those interested in the game can now enjoy the game using a free-to-play and microtransaction model.The elements that are under limited availability for the free-to-play accounts include Guild creation, character and officer slots and inventory.There ar... |
18 January 2012
08:13 GMT |
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Video game developer Funcom has announced that launch of House of Crom, a new free update for the MMO Age of Conan: Unchained, allowing both those who play the game for free and Premium subscribers to enjoy new locations and new adventures.The update allows players to explore the remains of a temple that was created ... |
18 January 2012
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Guild Wars 2 has been in development at ArenaNet for some time, but it seems that the team working on the MMO is finally ready to share it with a larger group of players as part of an open beta stage.Angel Leigh McCoy, who is a developer working on Guild Wars 2 at ArenaNet, has told Nevermet Press that, “Planni... |
18 January 2012
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Ever since BioWare, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, launched their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic a number of gamers have been complaining about the low performance of the game, even though the specs of their machines exceeded the minimum system requirements.Since then BioWare, through the v... |
17 January 2012
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Star Wars: The Old Republic has just received its first big update with the 1.1 Rise of the Raskghouls content but the developers at BioWare are unable to slow down and they are already talking about another significant update, which will introduce a whole new Legacy System.One of the core features of the new patch w... |
16 January 2012
20:21 GMT |
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The Secret World is one of the more ambitious MMO projects set to launch during 2012 and the developers at Funcom have chosen to highlight the concepts behind the Illuminati game faction, which focuses on getting things done no matter the price paid.Joel Bylos, who is the lead content designer working on The Secret W... |
16 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The developers at Trion Worlds have labeled a number of their servers for the MMO Rift as Trial, telling the player base that they are planning to use them in order to try out a number of gameplay and content changes that might then be extended to the full game.The list of the new Trial servers includes: Belmont, Gal... |
16 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Almost a full month after the official launch date, players have not yet managed to see and play through all the content in the new Star Wars MMO and BioWare claims that it is already working hard to make sure that new quests and stories are ready by the time the majority reaches the end-game.
James Ohlen, who is th... |
16 January 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic has performed better than expected in the months since its simultaneous world release and as gamers discover more of the experience the developers at BioWare are having to answer charges that the new game lacks innovation and is too close to its main competitor.As part of a post mortem ana... |
13 January 2012
08:57 GMT |
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At the moment those who play sufficiently extreme versions of the Light and Dark Side in Star Wars: The Old Republic eventually get access to specific loot that enhances their abilities and one leading developer working on the MMO says that truly neutral players will get the same in the coming weeks.James Ohlen, who ... |
13 January 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Since Star Wars: The Old Republic launched in late December players have been talking about the fact that there was little if any difference in the actual look of the game when using the “medium” and the “high” graphical setting in the client.Now the developers at BioWare working on the MMO ha... |
12 January 2012
10:32 GMT |
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