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Dungeons and Dragons Online Loses the Mandatory Monthly Fee

The MMORPG market is a very competitive one, with plenty of titles out there to duke it out. However, none of them are really good enough to dethrone the King of the Hill, World of Warcraft so all they're left with is fighting amongst themselves in hopes that all the blood and gore of their struggle might attrac...

19 October 2009
06:55 GMT

Turbine Talks About Bringing MMOs to Consoles

Turbine Inc. has created a very robust MMO in The Lord of the Rings Online and the expansion, Mines of Moria, which it put out for it. The game never got to the same level of success that Blizzard's World of Warcraft achieved, but it has done well enough to warrant another expansion and to allow Turbine to work ...

22 September 2009
02:53 GMT

Atari Considers D&D Turbine Lawsuit Frivolous

We have reported on the legal action that Turbine, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, has taken against publisher Atari, claiming that it has actively undermined its game in order to be ready to promote another D&D-based MMO, probably the Cryptic created Neverwinter Nights Online. Now, Atari has of...

4 September 2009
02:37 GMT

Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes Free to Play on August 6

Turbine provoked a minor stir in the world of MMOs and role playing gamers by announcing that Dungeons & Dragons Online, which was initially released in 2006 and aimed to replicate the pen and paper experience of the game in an online environment, would be adopting a free to play model during the summer.The developer...

9 July 2009
03:27 GMT

The Lord of the Rings Online Has No Plans to Merge Servers

History has not been kind to MMOs in the last few months. After all, Hellgate: London is gone, Tabula Rasa went out with a bang earlier in the year, and Age of Conan has been merging servers in an effort to make sure that the player density is constant. It seems that only World of Warcraft from Blizzard, and free-to-...

23 June 2009
04:20 GMT

Dungeons and Dragons Online Going Free to Play

Turbine is saying that it plans to make Dungeons & Dragons Online for the PC free to play via an update that should be announced during this summer. The MMO has until now been subscription-based, with one month of play time costing the gamer no less than 14.95 dollars. The numbers for Dungeons & Dragons Online have n...

11 June 2009
13:11 GMT

Lord of the Rings Online Creators Talk About the Future of the MMO

The Lord of the Rings Online will be two years old on April 24, making it one of those MMOs that have not managed to get near the level of memberships of World of Warcraft but have carved a clear niche, complete with a loyal player base. And now the people at Turbine, who have created the videogame, are talking about...

24 April 2009
14:21 GMT

Turbine Is Thinking about Console MMOs

Even while it's getting ready to launch an expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, called Mines of Moria, Turbine is thinking ahead about the future of MMOs and how it can evolve as a company in order to provide what players want. One of the most interesting development opportunities seems to be taking MMOs ...

14 October 2008
15:31 GMT

Mines of Moria Release Date Nailed Down

Turbine and Codemasters Online are confirming that November 18 is the day their Lord of the Rings Online MMO gets its first expansion, Mines of Moria. As the title announces, the main idea behind this expansion is to allow players to explore and fight their way through the mines, one of the most terrifying spaces in ...

13 October 2008
06:08 GMT

Five Misconceptions on Wind Energy

Although other sources may prove more effective in the long run, of all the natural energy providers out there wind is always the closest and the easiest one to comprehend. More and more people build their own wind-fueled energy mini-stations at home, which is compared to having your own car instead of relying on pub...

26 September 2008
03:51 GMT

Turbine and Warner Bros. Partner for Lords of the Rings Online Expansion

Turbine and Warner Bros. announce that they are partnering up to release The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria for retail in North America. It seems that the announcement is a direct result of Warner Bros. pumping more than 50 million dollars into the development of Turbine earlier this year. The announcement ...

4 August 2008
16:11 GMT

Lords of the Ring Online Updated with Book 14

Turbine is getting close to the release of Book 14 of Lord of the Ring Online. The developers say that the update is going to be the last the MMO will receive before the launch of the expansion, called Mines of Moria, which is scheduled for autumn.Book 14 is actually called Ringforges of Eregion and will focus on the...

14 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Tiny Turbine Could Revolutionize Computer Memory

Advanced computer simulations carried out by Colin Lambert of the Lancaster University resulted recently in the design of world's smallest turbine, a device consisting of a 10 nanometer long and 1 nanometer across carbon nanotube housed inside two other wider nanotubes (see image). As electric current is pumped ...

11 June 2008
09:18 GMT

Turbine Secures 40 Million for Future Expansion

Turbine, the company that publishes The Lord of the Rings Online, has revealed the fact that it has obtained some 40 million dollars in funding from several sources. The company says that companies like Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures, and Columbia Capital, that already have offere...

9 June 2008
14:06 GMT

Turbine Gets More Money, Prepares for Big Announcement

Turbine, the developer of the MMO Lord of the Rings Online, is announcing that it secured a further 40 million dollars in a financing drive. All of the money comes from venture capital funds, with firm Granite Global Ventures taking the lead in the financing round and other previous investors in the MMO creator also ...

7 May 2008
02:38 GMT

Turbine Talks Lord of the Rings Future

Recently, Turbine has executed a move many in the MMO industry thought could not be done. They extended their agreement with the Tolkien Enterprises regarding the use of the intellectual properties related to Middle Earth. The extension was not only of a temporal nature, sealing Turbine's rights to the IP until ...

18 March 2008
07:01 GMT

First Expansion for LOTRO Details Revealed

So, Turbine is delivering on its promise of bringing yearly episodic content to its massive Lord of the Rings Online project. With a release date of late 2008, the expansion is called Volume II: Mines of Moria because of the amount of content that it delivers and because of the chronology of the series, as it takes p...

17 March 2008
06:05 GMT

Turbine and Tolkien Enterprises Extend LotRO Deal

Turbine, makers of Lord of the Rings Online, have just extended the rights agreement they had with Tolkien Enterprises, regarding the intellectual properties Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. The deal ends in 2014, with an extra option tagged on to further extend it until 2017. Tolkien Enterprises, the society that a...

21 February 2008
04:39 GMT

How do Jet Engines Work?

Unlike traditional internal combustion engines which equip the vast majority of cars on the world's streets today, engines that convert the energy of burning fuel into direct mechanic work, jet engines generate thrust by discharging the force a fast flowing jet of fluid produces, in accordance with Newton's...

17 January 2008
06:41 GMT

Maglev Wind Turbine, Producing Electricity from Wind

Wind power is the fastest growing energy source today and the most efficient in the world. Its long-term technical potential is believed to be five times current global energy consumption, or 40 times current electricity demand.However, there is one disadvantage, the fact that conventional wind mills take up a lot o...

30 July 2007
06:30 GMT

Rolls-Royce Will Use New Superalloy on Their Jet Engines

Rolls-Royce is mostly famous for the elegant and expensive limousines, with an unique aspect and a prestige other car makers can't offer. The shape of the radiator grille and the "Spirit of Ecstasy" hood ornament have become instant trademarks of luxury and wealth, recognized around the world.Not many people kn...

6 June 2007
03:37 GMT

LOTR Online - Book 9: Shores of Evendim Unveiled

Just a few hours ago, Codemasters and Turbine have announced the details of the first free update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Book 9: Shores of Evendim is the first of many planned free updates to the world of Middle-earth, introducing an entirely new setting, over 100 addition...

5 June 2007
17:51 GMT

How Does the World's Largest Hurricane Simulator Work?

Wind tunnels are research tools developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects. The fastest wind tunnels are called hypersonic wind tunnels and are designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section. The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15.The worl...

31 May 2007
11:18 GMT

'LOTR: The Shores of Evendim' Expansion Pack Announced

If Middle Earth wasn't big enough for you, as of May, gamers can adventure to the shores of Evendim, the first free update to The Lord of the Rings Online. Less than a month after the launch of most complete and authentic recreation of Middle-earth, Turbine is delivering the first of many expansions to come to g...

11 May 2007
19:31 GMT

PC - The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar - N. Amer

Watch out because The (that's "thee") Most Anticipated New MMO of the Year has now been made available by the hands of Turbine and Midway Games, for purchase across North America: The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. It shouldn't come as a surprise if you hear that retailers' doors were s...

26 April 2007
06:24 GMT


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