Archive for July 13th, 2009

LotRO Welcomes Back Players

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Players wishing to return to Lord of the Rings Online and play for free have a couple of days left until the offer is closed. Last week, Turbine announced "Welcome Back Week", where former LotRO players could come back and revive their old characters to try out the recently-added content for ...

EVE Dev Blog: Cleaning Up Factional Warfare

Monday, July 13th, 2009 0 views

From: http://www.warcry.com/news/view/93120-EVE-Dev-Blog-Cleaning-Up-Factional-Warfare EVE Online developers were faced with the herculean task of cleaning up factional warfare. Huh? If you're not sure what that means, keep reading and find out! Control bunkers on steroids First of all, a small but necessary change; we noticed that System Control bunkers are quite fragile next to ...

Inside DDO: Eberron Unlimited

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I recently had the chance for an in-game tour of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, Turbine's redesigned free-to-play game. My tour guides were Director of Communications Adam Mersky, as well as Executive Producers Kate and Fernando Pais. This was their chance to show off DDO and to highlight some ...

Any chance that the Vrykul will be a playable race in a future expansion?”

Monday, July 13th, 2009 0 views

Any chance that the Vrykul will be a playable race in a future expansion?

Online gaming up in the US

Monday, July 13th, 2009 0 views

Our economy may still be pretty much in the gutter, but one industry is still going strong. If you glanced at what site you were reading this on and guessed "online gaming," congrats! You win a gold star. Here you go: ★. Anyway, according to this industry report featured on GameSpot, ...

Augmented Items Abound!

Monday, July 13th, 2009 0 views

Hear ye, mighty champions of Vana'diel! Have you gazed longingly at the augmented apparel donned by your lower-level peers, wondering when similar equipment would be introduced for those of powers puissant? Consider your wait over! A host of new augmented items designed especially for high-level characters will be one of the many ...

Dan Jolley talks about TOKYOPOP’s Death Knight manga

Monday, July 13th, 2009 0 views

Things have been a little bit quiet on the manga front, but not for long. Warcraft Legends editor Troy Lewter has pinned down Dan Jolley, writer for the forthcoming Thassarian-centric volume Warcraft: Death Knight, and posted the interview with him on the official TOKYOPOP site. To be fair, the interview is ...