Dark Age of Camelot News – Jeff Hickman on WAR, DaoC and the Future

January 11th, 2010

  Jeff Hickman is Executive Producer at EA Mythic. He has worked on several titles including Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online. Jeff gave a presentation at AGDC which outlined how players will purchase and play games in the future and what design ideas we might see years from now. He also touched on some of the areas where Warhammer went wrong and explained some improvements they are trying to make for the future on all of Mythic’s products. After his presentation I had a chance to interview Jeff, sadly the video interview was lost, sorry Jeff, but I’ll try to highlight some of the points he made.

Jeff explained that digital distribution is important in the future for games. There will always be boxed sales, but with services like STEAM and other digital download companies, getting games directly online easier than ever to do. In the future, more and more people will be downloading games online than going to the store to buy them.

Martial Heroes News – Game Entertainment Europe

January 11th, 2010

Game Entertainment Europe brings Massive Multiplayer Games to Europe

Amsterdam, 26th June 2006 – Game Entertainment Europe BV has added the game Martial Heroes to its game portfolio as the first massive multiplayer game. Martial Heroes is a free to play game based on oriental martial arts. With the introduction of Martial Heroes, Game Entertainment Europe is offering a new game genre to gamers that like Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG).

Martial Heroes is a provocative game to play for both new and experienced gamers. A gamer chooses the role that fits him or her best. By playing quests and using items such as swords and horses, the gamer grows into his role. Of course real success comes from playing the game together. Martial Heroes offers the possibility to form a Guild. There is an unlimited number of levels that will keep the game provocative for every hardcore gamer. New items and extensions are launched daily and there will be events regularly.

Gamers can visit the European website for Martial Heroes, which will be launched in August. Through this site the Martial Heroes game client can be downloaded for free. The European website will be available in English, German, French and Dutch with additional languages being added in the near future.

European gamers will be able to buy interesting items, pay for these with their favourite (local) payment system and use the European helpdesk, forum and Game Masters (GM). Throughout 2006 the international game server for Martial Heroes will be extended with servers dedicated to the European users.

“There are many more great online community games besides those from well known publishers like NCSoft and Webzen. Many games that are successful in Asia are hardly available for gamers in Europe”, according to Richard van Barneveld, CEO of Game Entertainment Europe. We are the first company to offer a complete solution to the many problems that game developers face in offering their games in Europe. Game Entertainment Europe can offer 28 different languages, 86 payment methods, local promotion, helpdesk and superior hosting facilities. Besides Martial Heroes, Game Entertainment Europe will offer several other online community games to European gamers. Van Barneveld: “In the short term we will launch an online First Person Shooter (FPS) and several online sports games. “

Lineage 2 News – Subclass Change Service

January 10th, 2010

  Have you ever dreamed about changing your character’s class, wondered what it would be like if you had a different main class, or just wanted a fresh new experience in Lineage 2? Your dreams can become reality!

Lineage II is proud to announce the Subclass Change account service and a small update to the Name Change account service.

You can sign up for the Subclass Change paid account service starting Tuesday, June 9th, 2009.

Any account services purchased on or after June 9th, 2009 will follow our normal account service processing during regular maintenance.

EverQuest II News – Update 52 Preview: Emperor’s Athenaeum

January 10th, 2010

In Monument and Might, GU #52, Kurn’s isn’t the only place the mysterious stranger will lead you. Your new “friend” will send you to the Emperor’s Athenaeum to uncover more secrets.

Behind the last known door into the sealed city of Charasis lies the Emperor’s Athenaeum. It is the great lost library, thought to be only legend by most.

It is said to be the location of all of the Sathirian Dynasty’s greatest secrets.

Vanguard News – Pantheon Game Update Notes

January 8th, 2010

Halls of the Pantheon

The Halls of Pantheon is finally here. The first part of the great architect Artera’s story has finally been released and now is your chance to prove to the gods of Telon you are worthy of their blessings. Within the halls you will be asked to do many things as you increase your favor with the gods until finally correcting the imbalance of creation and unlocking the path that leads into the halls of shattered souls and the truth behind the gods of Telon and their years of silence. It is up to you adventurers, crafters, diplomats to unlock the secrets within the halls and prove once again that the inhabitants of Telon are a force to be reckoned with.

Feature Details:

200 new quests

1000+ new items

2 new flying mounts

Choose your alignment and reap the rewards

Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott

Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls

Craft enhancements making them more powerful

Craft god armor

Craft a unique epic weapon for each class

New item mods

New resistances

Star Wars Galaxies News – Twelve Servers to Close in October

January 8th, 2010

Due to the Free Character Transfer Service, a number of servers have essentially become ghost towns as much of the game’s remaining population has chosen to converge on a small number of servers (example: Starsider).

As a result of this, Star Wars Galaxies Community Manager, Draakull, has announced today that 12 servers and SWG Credits will be shutdown on October 15th, 2009, at 5PM PDT, leaving 13 remaining. The creation of new characters on these servers is now disabled.

The servers listed below will be shut down:

Corbantis

Europe-Infinity

Intrepid

Kauri

Kettemoor

Lowca

Naritus

Scylla

Tarquinas

Tempest

Valcyn

Wanderhome

To help facilitate any players still remaining on these servers, the Free Character Transfer Service has been extended through to October 15th, 2009. Beginning today, all characters still remaining on the aforementioned servers are eligible for a one time free transfer to any of the remaining 13 servers. 

In addition to this announcement, a FAQ has also been made available for more information on the situation.

The announcement and FAQ are both available here.

Darkfall News – Newest Patch Live

January 8th, 2010

The main focus for this patch were the optimizations. This is the most work we’ve done to date in this area.

Optimizations

The audio system has been completely revamped and this will result in significantly higher performance, Darkfall Gold, mostly noticeable during large sieges.

A large number of server side optimizations regarding sieges and large battle performance have been applied.

Miscellaneous client problems have been addressed

Crafting

New Items added for Skinning:

Dragon Bone

Ork Darktaint

Northman Blood

The Nissan 100W dofus kamas fighting techniques

January 8th, 2010

dofus kama, like shining like a star, there are many who follow their passion for it. So players like to exchange some of their own combat experiences. Today, I also share with friends about combat techniques.

The following is Nissan 100W dofus kamas fighting techniques.

This technology is fighting techniques, the need, and No. 4 team. 3 Plant Master a wizard-level needs of 50, probably about 4 days to complete, may need to equip, or upgrades is too slow is best leapfrog fight monsters.

For example, your four-level increase with the number 40, it is better to play 50 or so strange, one must be equipped to allow. This technique is a dofus kamas plus equipment, daily output 100W dofus kamas easy and as time goes on, level of not less than increased production has continuously increased, this technology, concealment is very high, not easy to titles.

If you do not sell equipment, and a daily output of each of the cash machine, 35Wdofus kamas or so, if you sell equipment and production is not counted, but it can guarantee, 100Wdofus kamas steady as high as 200W dofus kamas all depends on personal luck.

Start the first step the following operations.

First establish two kinds of job. They were a wizard, and three plants Master. See Operation the establishment of the completion of the task.

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Early wizard wear something casual you can wear in the 40 or so squirrels can cover a little increase in the blood and equipment 45 later -18 play dofus kamas on the Master of plants to 56 will find a baby to his own use plus blood.

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Stall operation methods:

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Anarchy Online News – New Tiered Subscription Model

January 7th, 2010

  Durham, USA – January 21, 2008 – Funcom announces the introduction of a tiered subscription system in Anarchy Online, and players can now choose between three subscriptions plans going from free-to-play to 5 to 14,95 USD / EUR a month. The newest subscription level means that gamers can access the areas and content in the Shadowlands expansion pack for only 5 USD / EUR a month, thereby offering one of the most profound, engaging and deep online experiences around for a low monthly cost.

The new areas which open up for the 5 USD a month subscribers are all located in the Shadowlands. This expansion pack got an incredible review score average, several awards and great critical acclaim when it launched, and is one of the most heralded MMO expansions of all time. The expansion not only gives players massive new areas to explore, it also introduces lots of new features as well as a chance to reach the maximum level in Anarchy Online.

Aion News – NCsoft Responds to Player Shop AFKers

January 7th, 2010

  Find yourself sitting in a seven hour queue recently? You can thank your fellow community members for that. Many players have been abusing the player shop system in Aion, which lets players set up shop anywhere in the world and hawk their wares, in order to avoid queue times.

Gotta break for dinner? Don’t want to come back and deal with a queue? Set up shop! Up until today, being in shop mode protected you from the idle out timer. This practice has compounded the issue of already crowded servers by causing queue times to shoot up as more and more people catch on and set up shop to avoid idling out.

Well this morning Aion went down for maintenance, and returned with a newly implemented 30 minute limit on player shops. Now, if only they added some more severs!