In just under three hours, Blade and Soul's first Closed Beta weekend will begin. All Founders are invited to this test, in addition to a random selection of all who signed up for the Beta and those who obtained one through a giveaway. NCSoft West's producer, Nicolas Coutant, had this to say about the Closed Ceta test: "We’ve been hard [...]
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After the World of Darkness MMO was canceled in April of last year following some impressive tech demos and a long bout of silence, many fans held out hope that CCP would one day pick the title back up. After all, they still owned the IP holders, White Wolf Publishing. They would have to do something with their IPs eventually, [...]
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Last November, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a petition with the Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress "seeking an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention provision, in order to allow gamers to modify their software to disable authentication checks or to connect to third party servers after official support for those games has ended." The DMCA as [...]
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A rare feature in today's MMOs, Seatribe have added custom imagery to Haven and Hearth. Players can now upload their own images to their server and craft in-game battle standards, tabards, village flags, and more using those images. The game currently determines how expensive each image is to craft based on a "pigmentation system." Each image is analyzed by the [...]
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Aventurine have announced that their hardcore PvP MMORPG Darkfall Online will be holding a free weekend from October 30th to November 1st. Being held during Halloween, some All Hallows Eve festivities will be held during the free weekend. The news post talks of evil brooms and jack-o-lanterns among other things. Additionally, Darkfall is 33% off for the Halloween season. Given [...]
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Project Genom is the latest in a recent surge of MMORPGs that are challenging traditional tab-targeting combat systems by providing a non-targeting, action-based combat system. All of the familiar MMO systems are here—including strong elements of PvE and questing—but combat comes in shooter form. The question is whether the shooter and MMO halves form a cohesive whole or if they [...]
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Jagex announced today that their card/board game spin-off of RuneScape, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, is set to enter Closed Beta on November 25th. The card-based adventure game is currently set to launch sometime in 2016 on both PC and iPad. In Chronicle, players "craft" an adventure for their hero, leveling them up as they approach the final player-versus-player showdown. According to [...]
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Celtic Heroes has launched a new expansion just in time for Halloween. The Halloween update and the new expansion—Arcane Sanctum—went live simultaneously today. As the seasonal festivities hit Samhain, a new threat becomes available for high-leveled players. The Arcane Sanctum is a new level added to Gelebron's Tower. Players must make it through the Forbidden Halls before venturing into this [...]
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As previously announced, following three days of rest, Dragomon Hunter has entered Open Beta. Unlike the Open Stress Test last week, progress will not be wiped during the Open Beta phase. Over 100 Dragomon are waiting in the world of Wyveria and you can rest easy knowing that those you catch will be caught permanently. For the duration of the [...]
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Perfect World and Cryptic Studios announced today that Star Trek Online's 11th Season, New Dawn, has begun. Set after the "epic, five-year Iconian War," New Dawn represents a "new beginning." The two new episodes—Sunrise, available now, and Stormbound, releasing later—unveil a new civilization "on the brink of disaster" and a new "mysterious time traveler." As this happens, Admiral Leeta—voiced by [...]
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