Destiny Online News – One Year Anniversary

January 11th, 2010

  Destiny Online is an MMORPG featuring Beautiful 2D Graphics, Exotic Weapons, Powerful Skills, Loyal Pets, Versatile Mounts, Fierce PK, Tribal War, Online Romance and Wild Wedding Party. Now it has been a great year since last summer when Destiny Online was first launched. We experienced lots of fun together and those memories will be with us forever.

It is the first MMO that “Pays U 2 Play”, meaning that for each 2 hours that you are continuously logged in the game, you will earn 2 Gold Points. The Gold Points that you accumulated by being online can be used to purchase valuable items from the Destiny Item Mall. And now with the new twist of it, the brand new Master-Slave program, you can even earn more Gold without doing any more work.

Mortal Online News – First Interview

January 11th, 2010

  Mortal Online is a first-person sandbox MMO set in a believable fantasy environment. Although the game is not necessarily about PvP, its core is built around player skill and PvP as opposed to experience points, levels and a PvP-mode glued on top. Mortal Online revolves around player-to-player interaction more than solo-journeys and quests; it has full loot, sandbox crafting, housing and very seldom follows the streamlined design-rules and automated systems of modern cookie-cutter MMO’s. In short, it’s a niche skill-based fantasy game for a mature audience. The game is currently in Beta stage with nearly 10.000 accounts.

It’s very difficult to describe Mortal Online in a few sentences as it is very different from most of the MMOG’s out there. Now please understand I don’t use that cliché for marketing purposes, it simply is a niche game that some will like because of its unique approach and some won’t because it’s too different from their style of play or what they are used to. The game does not necessarily build on or “learn” from the errors or the steps taken by big-name MMO’s

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

January 10th, 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 10th, 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 8th, 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 8th, 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

Flyff Announces New Continent and Expansion

January 8th, 2010

flyff penya is my aim when I play this game. When you first hear the online game-flyff, from its name, you will know that its greatest feature is flying. In all the online games, flyff is a fun game; it has a unique flight system. In Flyff you must reach level 15 in order to become an assist. Then, you go to the assist drillmaster in flairs. Talk to him, and he will tell you to go kill 10 small abets in seven minutes.

Flyff is a game we currently offer for download in our free-to-play section! This new update to Flyff adds a diverse range of new content including a brand new continent to explore, and two new team-instance dungeons.

The newly discovered lost continent is packed with ancient mysteries to uncover. Set on a tropical island filled with lakes and jungles, the new continent has many new difficult quests for players to complete. Fight against high level monsters on your own or team up with some friends to enter either of the dangerous dungeons as a team instance.

Hidden deep in the heart of the rainforest, the two dungeons await those who feel they are capable and brave enough to handle them. Players who can survive the trials that await them will be rewarded greatly. But beware! Many have perished in the attempt to retrieve the precious treasures hidden deep inside them.

In addition to the brand new content, Version 14 sees the introduction of a revised attribute system, a revised upgrade system and many other new features.

Star Wars Galaxies News – Twelve Servers to Close in October

January 7th, 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 7th, 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