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Broken Toys » MONGO EATS WORLD
I got this mail from, um, Microsoft.
Getting through the most challenging World of Warcraft dungeons, such as Icecrown Citadel and Ulduar, can take hours. Hours that could be spent advancing and finding that next orange drop. WoW players need a secret weapon to help them make more informed decisions when they need them the most maximize XP gains, get the best loot and become a legend of Azeroth. This secret weapon is now available.
Bing.com just launched the Top WoW Items visual search gallery, the unique weapon WoW players can …
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Broken Toys » Lawsuits Can Be Addicting
Mark Jacobs, newly leisurely and blogging again, turns over his blog to a lawyer who talks about the impact of Smallwood v. NCsoft.
Posts are running rampant about how the judge agreed with Smallwood on the addiction claim and is allowing the case to proceed. That’s true enough, but misses the far more important aspects of this decision. First, the judge found that the End User License Agreement (EULA) was valid. The impact of this? The provision that limits NCSoft’s liability to $65 for contract violations and negligence are fully enforceable. …
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MMORPG.COM News » General: Pirate Galaxy: Fully Featured Facebook MMO
Splitscreen Studios has announced the release of its "fully featured 3D MMO" for Facebook called Pirate Galaxy. The game is played via Facebook in browser with an optional cash shop. Pirate Galaxy currently supports five languages and is in beta on Facebook. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Earthrise: Exclusive Screens Week 3
Earthrise devs have sent over another batch of three exclusive screenshots for your viewing pleasure today. This time, the screens feature a player standing in a huge canyon, an upward look at a structure on a peak and a guy checking out a contraption of sorts. Check them out! [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Perfect World International: Celebrate Two Years With New Gear
Perfect World International is celebrating its second anniversary and players have the opportunity to score some special gear. The new anniversary wear and more will be given to players free of charge. Two year players will receive an extra set of clothing and one year players will receive an anniversary mount. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Mythos: Frogster Launches Site
Frogster has announced that it has launched the European website for Mythos and that beta registrations are now being taken for the hack and slash MMO in development at Hanbitsoft. Frogster also indicated that it is working on a new video to show the transformation of the game since Hanbitsoft took over development duties from Flagship Studios. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Wizard 101: Celebrating Two Great Years
KingsIsle is preparing to celebrate its second birthday with the launch of the new zone called Celestia. Celestia is set to launch a bit later this fall and a new quest will show up this month to get players prepared. Celestia will raise the level cap and introduce new spells and head under the sea for adventure. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Lord of the Rings Online: Consignment Quests & Server Names
Opening the Lord of the Rings Online game client reveals a pair of announcements for Turbine. Consignment quests will not be available after September 7th and players are urged to complete them before that time. Secondly, developers have announced the names of four new servers being brought online in anticipation of hordes of new players for the F2P version set to go live on September 10th. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Fallen Earth: Companion App Update to Allow Crafting
Icarus Studios has announced that the companion app for Fallen Earth is set to be updated very soon. The app allows players to participate in a variety of in-game activities from the comfort of their iPhone. Players can check out auctions, chat, view character stats, send/reply to in-game email and more. The new update will grant even more in-game access including the ability to craft. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Aika: Pran Pack Giveaway
Aika Online is teaming up with MMORPG to bring you a special Pran Pack Giveaway! Deck out your favorite fairy familiar with two exclusive, never-before-seen Pran wings and a special pack of 25 portal scrolls. And to spice things up, once you redeem your coupon code you will be automatically entered to win an additional Perfect Pran Pack, including a Pran Costume of your choice and an extremely valuable Enriched B Extract! [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Rift: Planes of Telara: Stonefield Zone Preview
RiftNexus.com has scored a new preview of the Rift: Planes of Telara zone called Stonefield. Stonefield is one of the first areas for the Defiant faction where players are challenged to fight the servants of the Titans, protecting helpless townsfolk and descending into the Deepstrike Mine. [Link]
1UP PC RSS feed » Indie MMO Love Free This Weekend
Not quite sold on Eskil Steenberg's one-man-MMO-show Love? What if it were completely free? That's exactly what's going down this Friday, as the developer just announced a free weekend for the procedurally-generated online game.
Beginning tomorrow, September 3 at 1:00 a.m. Eastern, you'll be able to download the Love client from the game's official website. From there you should have free access to the game servers until around 7:00 a.m. Eastern on Monday.
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1UP PC RSS feed » Irrational Prototype Ideas May Live on in Another 2K Project
Before Irrational Games decided to make BioShock Infinite, it was testing prototype ideas that might show up in a few different 2K games. We chatted with Ken Levine in the latest stop on our Cross Country Game Tour (above), who said that the eventual decision to make BioShock Infinite relied on some of the concepts that had come before.
"We finished BioShock, and we really didn't know what was going to be next," he said. "We actually prototyped a bunch of stuff… kinda decided it wasn't [right], and sat in …
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MMORPG.COM News » Perfect World International: Celebrate Two Years With New Gear
Perfect World International is celebrating its second anniversary and players have the opportunity to score some special gear. The new anniversary wear and more will be given to players free of charge. Two year players will receive an extra set of clothing and one year players will receive an anniversary mount. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Rift: Planes of Telara: Stonefield Zone Preview
RiftNexus.com has scored a new preview of the Rift: Planes of Telara zone called Stonefield. Stonefield is one of the first areas for the Defiant faction where players are challenged to fight the servants of the Titans, protecting helpless townsfolk and descending into the Deepstrike Mine. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Wizard 101: Celebrating Two Great Years
KingsIsle is preparing to celebrate its second birthday with the launch of the new zone called Celestia. Celestia is set to launch a bit later this fall and a new quest will show up this month to get players prepared. Celestia will raise the level cap and introduce new spells and head under the sea for adventure. [Link]
The Ancient Gaming Noob » A Sweep of the Lower Lone Lands
After the previous weekend’s failure at Weathertop, we decided it was time to work on getting a few levels before attempting to move on with the epic quest line again. With four of us looking at a 6 person event, we need to get well ahead of it in levels before we go back.
The whole team was out on Saturday night:
Earlthecat – level 19 dwarf Guardian Roderigo – levl 21 human Burglar Garfinkel – level 23 elf Minstrel Enaldie – level 24 elf Rune Keeper
And we were headed …
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1UP PC RSS feed » OnLive Rolling Out Game Sale, Wi-Fi Beta
The game streaming service OnLive is preparing a set of new promotions to bump its subscriber listing as we head towards the holidays. This Labor Day weekend, the service will offer all of its cloud-service games at 50% off. In addition, the company is extending its "Founding Members" program to the end of the year, which gives a free first year and an optional second year for about five bucks.
The company also announced that it will be rolling out a beta program of Wi-Fi connectivity for the service, so …
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MMORPG.COM News » Mythos: Frogster Launches Site
Frogster has announced that it has launched the European website for Mythos and that beta registrations are now being taken for the hack and slash MMO in development at Hanbitsoft. Frogster also indicated that it is working on a new video to show the transformation of the game since Hanbitsoft took over development duties from Flagship Studios. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Wizard 101: Poised to Launch Celestia
KingsIsle is preparing to celebrate its second birthday with the launch of the new zone called Celestia. Celestia is set to launch a bit later this fall and a new quest will show up this month to get players prepared. Celestia will raise the level cap and introduce new spells and head under the sea for adventure. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Lord of the Rings Online: Consignment Quests & Server Names
Opening the Lord of the Rings Online game client reveals a pair of announcements for Turbine. Consignment quests will not be available after September 7th and players are urged to complete them before that time. Secondly, developers have announced the names of four new servers being brought online in anticipation of hordes of new players for the F2P version set to go live on September 10th. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Fallen Earth: Companion App Update to Allow Crafting
Icarus Studios has announced that the companion app for Fallen Earth is set to be updated very soon. The app allows players to participate in a variety of in-game activities from the comfort of their iPhone. Players can check out auctions, chat, view character stats, send/reply to in-game email and more. The new update will grant even more in-game access including the ability to craft. [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Aika: Pran Pack Giveaway
Aika Online is teaming up with MMORPG to bring you a special Pran Pack Giveaway! Deck out your favorite fairy familiar with two exclusive, never-before-seen Pran wings and a special pack of 25 portal scrolls. And to spice things up, once you redeem your coupon code you will be automatically entered to win an additional Perfect Pran Pack, including a Pran Costume of your choice and an extremely valuable Enriched B Extract! [Link]
1UP PC RSS feed » Capcom Wants Resident Evil 6 Out "as Soon as Possible"
Recently Capcom made clear their intentions to significantly reduce the time between releases in their major franchises, and it looks like they're following through. Speaking to Spanish website 3DJuegos (via NeoGAF), Keiji Inafune, global head of production at Capcom, said they intend to put Resident Evil 6 on the fast-track to retail shelves.
“Given the great success which led to us Resident Evil 5, we want Resident Evil 6 to hit the market as soon as possible," Inafune said. "In fact, Capcom will have news about this soon…" If that's in …
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Tobold's MMORPG Blog » Billing as the weakest link
So Square Enix found and fixed the bug in the Final Fantasy XIV beta and decided to start the open beta today. Which would be good news if you could actually get into the open beta, which you can't: Square Enix failed to give their account and billing server enough hardware / bandwith, and if you try to sign up for the open beta you only get a "server overloaded, try again later" error message.
Actually that happens quite a lot. Not just for betas, but also right after release, there … [Link]
Tobold's MMORPG Blog » Champions Online for $6
Direct2Drive is celebrating its 6th anniversary with 4 weeks of sales. Every week different games are on offer for $6 each. Now the general idea of such a sale is that you don't know what games will be cheap next week. But Atari / Cryptic sent me a press release celebrating *their* (1st) anniversary, in which they told me not only of the free trial this week, but also of the opportunity to buy Champions Online from Direct2Drive for $6 in the week of September 15th to September 21st.
I’m not … [Link]
NVIDIA SLI Technology » Social Impact of the GPU
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NVIDIA SLI Technology » Letter From Our CEO
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WoW Vault – The Ultimate Resource » Duskwood [HD] – Cataclysm Video Coverage
In today's 1080p HD video, we take a look at the postCataclysm version of Duskwood. It has a few minor changes… and a lot of freaking trees.If… [Link]
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