Roguelikes inspire EVE Online’s revamped hacking minigame

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June 4th is coming up fast, and with it EVE Online’s new Odyssey expansion. The content drop will feature improved explorer pursuits, with particular emphasis on removing the “‘sit and wait’ aspect of exploration gameplay” in favor of “something interesting to do.”

In the case of today’s dev blog, the interesting thing to do is hacking, and CCP says that it drew inspiration from roguelikes for the new minigame’s “procedurally generated levels, turn-based combat, and permadeath.” You can read all about it on the official EVE Online website.

Diablo III restores auction house, donates duped proceeds to charity

– 1:22 am
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Is there a light at the end of Diablo III’s auction house woes? Blizzard is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to make it so. After a nasty gold duping exploit and the subsequent suspension of all services, the Diablo III auction house is back online — and Blizzard is looking to save face with its return.

Production Director John Hight gave a lengthy explanation of what happened with the situation and why Blizzard responded the way it did. “Only a relatively small number of players had the billions of gold necessary to exploit the bug, and only 415 of those players chose to use this exploit for personal gain,” Hight wrote. “We elected not to roll back the servers in the Americas and are instead working to remove duplicated gold from the economy through targeted audits and account actions (as indicated above) without taking away progress that our players rightfully earned.”

Hight said that the studio is donating all proceeds from auctions conducted by dupers to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Star Trek Online announces Tribble Test Weekend

– 9:29 pm
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Star Trek Online’s first expansion, Legacy of Romulus, is going to be launching in less than two weeks, and to build up some hype for the new addition, the folks at Cryptic have deemed this weekend a Tribble Test Weekend. Beginning tomorrow, players can log on to the Tribble test server and get their first look at the new content coming when Legacy of Romulus goes live on the 21st.

But if that’s not enough to enthuse you to play on the test server, Cryptic is sweetening the deal. Any players who log in and play on the Tribble server for at least one hour over the course of the weekend will receive a special to-be-announced reward after Legacy of Romulus is released. For the full details on this Tribble Test Weekend, just head on over to the game’s official site.

World of Warcraft down to 8.3 million subs since February

– 1:18 am
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The world’s most popular MMO has gotten a bit less popular in the last few months, it would seem. During today’s quarterly investor call, Activision-Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers are down to 8.3 million. While that’s still nothing to thumb your nose at, it does represent a significant decline from the 9.6 million subscribers the game was reported to have last February.

Yet, some still regard WOW as the most popular MMO of the market, some say it is lack of challenges, and move on to other games, like EVE Online, and some stick to the game simply because of the time and money they have invested in… What do you say?

LotRO Update 11 brings five new areas on May 13

– 8:35 pm
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Come next week, denizens of Middle-earth will have five new areas to explore and adventure in; Lord of the Rings Online launches Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand on Monday, May 13th. The epic story will continue in Wildermore, the remote area of Eastern Rohan, where players will attempt to restore the region from the icy destruction brought by the stone giant Núrzum.

The journey will take players through Writhendowns, The Fallows, Whitshaws, High Knolls, and Balewood where they will face Uruk-hai threats, marauding Warbands, violent Huorns, and Wood-trolls in an effort to protect the people and fight against growing evil and corruption.

Update 11 also includes a mounted combat revamp, daily Silver Hobbit Presents for logging in, and improved VIP benefits including an improved bonus experience system. The Wildermore Quest pack is free to VIPs. Check out the adventure that awaits in the gallery below.

5.3 PTR Profession Changes, All Profession Guides Updated

– 9:22 pm
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The 5.3 PTR doesn’t have nearly as many changes for professions as Patch 5.2 did, but there’s some changes to gathering professions as well as the fishing carps!

Herbalists and miners with low skill can still interact with Pandaria nodes. Instead of getting an herb or ore though, they’ll simply get fragments. The number of fragments will increase based on their skill level.

Besides, the wowhead has updated all of our Mists of Pandaria Profession Overviews, which started off as very popular newsposts during Mists of Pandaria’s beta! In their overviews, you’ll learn about all the recipes, their sources, and reagents, as well as interesting details such as what crafted armor matches various transmog sets and . they have also got lots of screenshots and 3D models of vanity items, such as the jewelcrafting panthers!

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EVE Online celebrates 10 years of smuggling, intrigue, and the magic of teamwork

– 9:21 pm
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EVE is celebrating its 10th anniversary of an action-packed weekend within the EVE Universe. It is not just a party because they are running a campaign on Facebook “likes” to work towards free gifts and fireworks, on Sunday May 5th.

Every “like” that EVE Online’s Facebook page receives will help unlock free gifts for players and hourly firework drops. The gifts will be handed out after downtime on Sunday the 5th of May. There will also be an attempt to break the current PCU record, so the park your accounts and enjoy the display. To keep you entertained, there will be two “Hunt a Dev” roams, prizes, and oodles of player events. You can check out all the details on the official page. Buy EVE ISK on Swagvault!