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Atlantica Online Grabs a Brat and a Beer

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Ndoors Corporation is proud to announce the commercial release of Atlantica Online in Germany. The premier free-to-play, strategic, turn-based MMORPG has seen great success in Asia and North America and is now open for all German players. After three closed beta periods and one open beta with countless hours of ...

Rheek of Blackrock

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top arena fighters in the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and ...

Star Trek Online community Q&A: Space combat!

Monday, November 16th, 2009

The subject of this week's Star Trek Online community Q&A is probably one of the most popular considering its importance in the game. In fact, we're well aware that many questions in last week's inaugural first post were about space combat. So while we couldn't address those last week, we ...

Age of Conan subs gets Secret World beta slot

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Funcom offering access to forthcoming modern-day MMOG with three-month commitment to dark-fantasy MMOG; two-week free trial returns. Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning represented the two largest massively multiplayer online role-playing game launches last year. However, neither game managed to dent the undeniable ...

80 more layoffs hit Mythic

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Gamasutra is reporting that another 80 layoffs have hit Mythic Entertainment as well as several other Electronic Arts studios, although Mythic was the only MMO group to feel the sting of sudden unemployment. That would equate to 40% of the team, which would make for a brutal staff blow. Our ...

Enter to win a Creative WoW headset of your own

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Yes, it's time once again to award one of you with the soon-to-be coolest gaming headset around just for performing the not-so-arduous task of... leaving a comment on this post. Commenting on a blog probably isn't your job (though most of you probably do it at your job -- no ...

Patch 3.3: Just run as many heroics as you want

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Blizzard's new Dungeon System is a pretty huge overhaul of the social and gameplay experience of getting an instance group together, and we're all pretty excited about it here. On top of the hassle-free daily random dungeon selection and the great new matchmaking features, you even get teleported to the ...