Archive for May 19th, 2009

E3 2009: Perfect World International Gets a Second Expansion

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Perfect World Entertainment announced the launch of "The Age of Spirits," the second expansion for its popular free-to-play MMORPG, Perfect World International which currently has more than 50 million players worldwide. "The Age of Spirits" expansion includes a myriad of new features and complete revamps of existing features. The "Find Quest" system ...

Guild Wars Eye of the North New Features

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

One of the most notable features in Eye of the North, the expansion to the successful series of Guild Wars is the addition of dungeons. Special multi-level instances, dungeons can be played through repeatedly, and offer some unique items, bosses, and even some surprising traps.

Warhammer Online: Latest Grab Bag

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Mythic has released another Warhammer Online 'Grab Bag' article which features questions about the game answered by the developers. This issue tackles several topics including "What does having a five-star capital city really mean? What opens up when a capital city is at five stars?". Developers respond: "New quests and areas open ...

Silkroad Online – Exploring The “Tomb of the Qin-Shi Emperor”

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

    By Jason Van Horn On a press tour just last week, two of the good people at Joymax - Rob Alvarez (Community Manager) and Dennis Winter (Game Operation Associate)-showed me around the Tomb of the Qin-Shi Emperor...the newest addition to their hit MMO Silkroad Online. It's an expansion-called Legends in the ...

April Tournament Updates

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

In April GvG tournament news, Straight Outta Kamadan [KMD] defeated History Repeats Itself [Cry] to claim this month's championship. In the 1v1 tournament, I N San Ity proved victorious over Viet Mangeur De Nem to become April's 1v1 champion. For the complete list of rankings, check out the full GvG ...

Icelandic Games Developer Predicts $55 Million Revenues From Eve Online

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

While the publishing industry agonises over whether consumers will pay for its online content, the games biz has no such worries. Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard's all-conquering, bandwidth-hogging MMO game World of Warcraft has 11 million paid-up subscribers, making it $1.34 billion (£874 million) last year. Now futuristic MMO game Eve ...

Mog Tablet Quest Redux!

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Hail, gallant adventurers! Thanks to your feats of detection and derring-do, the lost Mog Tablets of King Kupofried have been recovered, and their mystic "Super Kupowers" freed to fill the realm with happiness and joy. The first phase of the quest will soon draw to a close, but fear not! ...