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Upcoming Age of Conan Updates Detailed: Dancing, Reworked PvP, New Areas, More

By Chris Faylor, Jun 13, 2008 8:38am PDT

Age of Conan developer Funcom and publisher Eidos have issued a list of planned changes and modifications to the mature PC MMO Age of Conan, which...

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"Just an FYI, if something becomes more powerful, it has been 'buffed' not 'nerfed.'"

- Snake&Crane see all 34 comments

LOTR MMO Dev Working on Console Title

By Aaron Linde, Jun 10, 2008 3:13pm PDT

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine, traditionally a PC gaming developer, has confirmed speculation that it is at work on a console MMO....

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"They really are. I've had so many good pugs so far. it's nice to be in a year old MMO and have ..."

- Sturm08 see all 16 comments

Crime MMO APB Receiving Public Beta

By Chris Faylor, Jun 10, 2008 9:00am PDT

Realtime Worlds today unveiled its plans to host a "full public beta of APB," its upcoming crime-based MMO due out on PC and Xbox 360. Helmed...

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"Hey! fashion and.. violence... natural compan...ions.... uhm "

- invadernny see all 32 comments

Age of Conan Is 'Biggest MMO Launch Since WoW,' Ships One Million According to Developer

By Chris Faylor, Jun 06, 2008 8:07am PDT

Continuing its trend of celebratory releases, developer Funcom announced today that Age of Conan has shipped, but not necessarily sold, over one...

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"basically this game is cool @ first then gets REALLY boring. the game plays like resident evil ..."

- mrnails see all 55 comments

Age of Conan Surpasses 400K Players, Reportedly 'One of the Fastest Selling PC Games' Ever

By Chris Faylor, May 27, 2008 8:26am PDT

Developer Funcom has announced that its subscription-based PC MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has accumulated more than 400,000 players since...

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"it had more 1-40 content yes. it qwas severely lacking in 40-60 content for the first 2 months. "

- italiano3d see all 167 comments

Atari Moving Away from Single-player Efforts, Contemplating Online Social Game Focus

By Chris Faylor, May 23, 2008 3:19pm PDT

Alone in the Dark publisher Atari will soon move away from publishing and developing "high-budget single-player games," according to Phil Harrison,...

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"Indeed MMO's take time. And no MMO has yet to reach heights like WOW. What is it 13 million ..."

- ps2rules300 see all 16 comments

Blizzard Bans WoW Botters in Massive Crackdown

By Nick Breckon, May 21, 2008 4:01pm PDT

Users of the popular World of Warcraft bot Glider, the makers of which are currently being sued by Warcraft developer Blizzard, are being targeted...

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"I think people generally bot content they are no longer interested in, or is not especially fun. ..."

- revolver6 see all 88 comments

Burning Sea Producer Laments Console MMO Barriers

By Nick Breckon, May 19, 2008 10:43am PDT

In a response to general industry criticism levied by a former Sony Online Entertainment developer, Pirates of the Burning Sea producer Joe Ludwig...

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"QFT. You can get a reasonably capable DX9 card for peanuts now."

- slackshoe see all 9 comments

Requiem: Bloodymare Open Beta Starts Thursday

By Chris Faylor, May 13, 2008 12:27pm PDT

Between spurts of not-work-safe media, developer Gravity has claimed its Havok-powered MMO Requiem: Bloodymare (PC) represents "a world where...

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"Isn't there some ragdoll effects when you slay mobs? Is it cool?"

- utgaardsloke see all 19 comments

How to Put MMO Experience on a Resume

By Chris Faylor, May 12, 2008 8:00pm PDT

With such renowned institutions as IBM and Harvard suggesting that many traits displayed by dedicated players of massively multiplayer games are...

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"They aren't suggesting that you list "gaming" as a hobby, they're suggesting that you use it ..."

- Ebu see all 88 comments

Rumor: Realtime Wants To Sell APB as GTA MMO

By Chris Faylor, May 08, 2008 3:05pm PDT

Crackdown (X360) developer Realtime Worlds bought back the rights to its upcoming crime MMO All Points Bulletin (PC, X360) in hopes of selling it...

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"I hate MMORPGs but I would be all over a game like APB so long as it remains action-oriented ..."

- mittense see all 25 comments

Rockstar on Grand Theft Auto MMO

By Steve Gibson, Apr 22, 2008 11:56pm PDT

Rockstar founder Sam Houser recently chatted about the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 4 release, and the GTA franchise in general. Although the idea of...

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"True, if everyone scored 100ms or less, so many great things could be done. I personally find ..."

- ZaldronGG see all 36 comments

Requiem: Bloodymare Shots Are Nippletastic

By Aaron Linde, Apr 09, 2008 4:35pm PDT

New screenshots of Gravity's Havok-powered MMO Requiem: Bloodymare (PC) have arrived, showcasing the usual suspects: gore, guts, and not-work-safe...

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"So what is the reason why asian themed games shy away from virtual blood?"

- Dr_Cube see all 10 comments

Elephants on Parade in LOTR Online Book 13 Shots

By Nick Breckon, Apr 09, 2008 9:16am PDT

Lord of the Rings Online

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"haha nice. Yeah i bought it but i lost my copy somewhere. i might have thrown it out with the ..."

- gyokuro see all 31 comments

Take-Two Talks BioShock, Civ MMO Potential

By Chris Faylor, Mar 26, 2008 12:54pm PDT

Speaking at the 2008 Smid Cap Conference, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick mentioned massively multiplayer online editions of BioShock and...

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"Well there was one good game that we got outta it, *shrug* that's how it usually goes anyway. ..."

- SpaecKow see all 31 comments