Archive for August 13th, 2009

Shards of Destiny – Preview

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

EQII's next Game Update, Shards of Destiny, is slated to go live in late September. We will be bringing some exciting new content to the world of Norrath with Shards of Destiny. Read more!

Powerset Proliferation with Floyd Grub

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

News regarding Issue 16: Powers Spectrum just keeps on coming! In a second Dev Diary about this upcoming content update, learn what Senior Designer, Floyd Grubb, has to say about Powerset Proliferation and which powersets you will see take on a new shape. Go here to read the article.

Blizzard franchises get their own Twitter accounts

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

Straight from the Twitter account of Kat Hunter, Blizzard Entertainment's Licensing Project Manager, comes a quiet little announcement that Blizzard's three hot properties now each have Twitter accounts of their own. If you use Twitter, you can now follow @warcraft, @starcraft, and @diablo. All three accounts are pretty bare at the ...

Do you know why we need to build a guild hall in Everquest 2?

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

The real gem of guild halls are the "amenities." These are the special features like brokers, teleporters, and the like. There will be 42 different amenities at release. The Tier 1 guild hall can have 15 amenities installed at one time. The Tier 3 can have 30 amenities installed. They ...

Q&A: NCsoft’s Jaesung Lee On Aion’s Westward Expansion

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

With World of Warcraft dominating the high-end online market, many developers have begun to avoid the arena of high-end MMOs. But NCsoft is continuing to tackle the sector, and its next great hope is long-in-development fantasy MMO Aion. When we spoke with NCsoft corporate relations director Jaesung Lee in Seoul after ...

MapleStory Europe v0.55 Client

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

MapleStory attracted 50 million registered users worldwide Nexon Europe also released an updated client of MapleStory, a 2D, side-scrolling, massively multiplayer online role-playing game where players can enjoy a multitude of different skills, spells and abilities, as well as numerous community features, including detailed friends lists, communication through humorous character animations ...

Guild Wars cocreator leaves NCsoft

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 0 views

ArenaNet president of product development Jeff Strain parts amicably with South Korean MMOG company; publishing president David Reid also out. In late 2008, NCsoft underwent significant corporate restructuring in a bid to realign the massively multiplayer online-focused company under its Western and Eastern-focused markets. Now, two executives chosen to lead NCsoft's ...