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PlanetSide 2: triple Station Cash event on Friday
PlanetSide 2 normally asks that you buy in-game Station Cash to fuel your experience, but the generous types at Sony Online Entertainment are tripling your wonga on Friday only. Their plan? To ride off into the sunset with your riches before the world ends. True story. PCGamesN reports that SOE boss John Smedley announced the ... Read More»
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Star Wars The Old Republic: The Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion coming Spring 2013
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s first full expansions – The Rise of the Hutt Cartel – is releasing in Spring 2013, developer BioWare Austin has revealed. Get the details below. Pre-orders are available now at $9.99 if you are a paid subscriber, or $19.99 if you are a free-loader. The expansion raises the game’s level ... Read More»
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Dungeons & Dragons Online Mac beta client available
Dungeons and Dragons Online is n its way to Mac. A beta client for the free-to-play MMO is available right now from this link; it comes with a number of caveats so be sure to read the accompanying FAQ on the forum. Turbine recently produced an OS-X friendly version of The Lord of the Rings ... Read More»
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Planetside 2 free players “just as important” as spenders, says Smedley
Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has said all Planetside 2 players are equal in the developer’s eyes, because they’re “content for each other”. Speaking to PC Gamer, Smedley said just 10% of Planetside 2 players have ponied up for a premium package. “And the way we see it is that the 90% of players ... Read More»
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Darkfall: Unholy Wars beta delayed by persistance bug
A post on the Darkfall forums explains why the latest entry in the MMO series, Unholy Wars, hasn’t gone into beta as expected. The testing session has been delayed while Adventurine wipes out a particularly nasty persistance bug which occasionall... Read More»
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The War Z available now on Steam
The War Z only went into beta a few weeks ago but the horror survival MMO has already attracted 600,000 registered players and made its way to Steam. The client launched on Steam is called the Foundation Release, and while it’s not clear if it’s a “finished” version, it has a complete map and all ... Read More»
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Dust 514 weapons trailer shows a world of pain
Dust 514 has received a new dev diary from CCP Games, showing off how the game’s weapons were designed, how they function, how they level up, and footage of them in action. Check out the carnage below.
Thanks to PrI5Ma for the clip.
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LOTRO Update 9: such friends as are trusty and willing
Lord of the Rings Online: Update 9 – Against the Shadow releases today. Stephany Nunneley saddles her horse and rides forth into Middle-earth to see what’s new. When Lord of the Rings Online’s Riders of Rohan expansion released in October, the inhabitants of Middle-earth were expecting not only the long-awaited addition of mounted combat, but ... Read More»
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Square Enix Confirms Staff Lay-offs
Rumors of staff cuts at Square Enix spread across the Internet over the weekend, but now senior director of public relations Riley Brennan has confirmed that lay-offs have occurred. The publisher’s office in Los Angeles has suffered some staff cuts due to restructuring, but this won’t impact on any of the firm’s MMO titles that ... Read More»
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex license now with Nexon
Free-to-play publisher Nexon has secured the rights to the critically-acclaimed anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Ausgamers reports the publisher will create a game based on the second season of the show, subtitled 2nd GIG, as well as TV movie sequel Solid State Society. “We are very pleased to have given the ... Read More»
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Square Enix issues lay-offs at LA offices, development unaffected
Square Enix has confirmed it has made lay-offs at its Los Angeles offices. The publisher admitted to staff cuts but did not give numbers or details. As word of the lay-offs leaked over the weekend, rumour had it that a number of online titles would be affected, but Square Enix public relations director Riley Brennan ... Read More»
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Neverwinter gets gloomy new gameplay screens, ‘Chasm’ trailer
Neverwinter studio Cryptic has released a hearty batch of screens for its MMORPG, said to be launching at some point in 2013. Everything’s been a touch quiet on the game lately, but there is also a new ‘Chasm’ trailer that shows it’s coming along well. Check out the screens and footage below. And here are ... Read More»
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Age of Wushu – Kung Fu MMO out in early 2013
Set in the Ming Dynasty, Snail Games’ Age of Wushu sets to one-inch-punch its way into the free-to-play MMO arena with its Wuxia culture inspired game. Shack News reports that the game will be a historically accurate, reality based game set in Ming era China featuring eight Kung Fu schools. “In terms of world space, ... Read More»
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Guild Wars publisher selling shares to establish new North American subsidiary
NCsoft, the Korean publisher behind MMORPG’s Lineage and Guild Wars, has announced it will sell all of its NC Interactive shares, the company’s US subsidiary responsible for Lineage 2 and City of Heroes. It will be selling all of its 809 million shares on December 24. Polygon reports the news, saying that NCsoft announced that ... Read More»
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Guild Wars 2 Wintersday screens show a snowy wonderland
The Wintersday even in Guild Wars 2 starts tomorrow, and runs through January 3. To celebrate the festivities, ArenaNet as released another batch of screenshots. Have a look at snowy wonderland inthe gallery below. If you missed the other set of screenshots, go have a look through here, where we’ve also posted a handy schedule ... Read More»