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Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures Released, 50% Off Until Thanksgiving

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Sony Online Entertainment's long-running MMO Star Wars Galaxies is now available through Steam in a special bundle. Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures includes the base game as well as its post-launch content. Specifically, you'll get the game's four expansions: An Empire Divided, Jump to Lightspeed, Rage of the Wookiees, ...

Age of Conan expansion due before July

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Funcom says Rise of the Godslayer add-on for fantasy MMORPG will arrive during the first half of 2010; reports Q3 loss of $9.6M on revenue of $5.7M. The launch of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures last year provided a healthy infusion of riches to Funcom's coffers. However, the Norwegian developer has ...

Atlantica Guide: Heavy Armor Users

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Spear: HP and Defense are both high, but not quite as high as a swordsman. Spear users do just as fine in the front row as Axe users. A spear user's basic attacks hits two enemies in a column. It also has two special attacks, flame spear which simply does ...

The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood Preview

Friday, November 13th, 2009

There are massively multiplayer online games that release and seem content with adding content to the back end without regard to story. What sets Lord of the Rings Online apart is that it is a game steeped in lore and is on the cusp of a war. When Turbine set ...

Joymax Throws a Global Party for the Turkish Launch of Silkroad Online

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, has announced the start of an event celebrating the upcoming launch of Turkish language service for fantasy MMORPG Silkroad Online. The November 17 launch will be followed by extended multilingual support to Arabic, German, and Spanish-speaking players ...

NCSoft Says Guild Wars 2 Beta Next Year, Launch 2011, Aion v1.5 in Q4 This Year

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

The most recent conference call by NCSoft with investors had them talking about Guild Wars 2 which in 2010 will have a Closed Beta (no exact date). On the call they talked about the game also seeing realization in 2011. So for all you Guild Wars fans, just another year and ...

Warhammer Dev On Hackers

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Warhammer Online's development manager, John Cox, has spoken out about hacking and how the problem is handled behind the scenes at Mythic. Without giving too much away to any would-be hackers, Cox explains why it sometimes takes a little while to resolve possible hacking issues. As gamers, it's all too easy ...