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CCP Games highlights community efforts of EVE bloggers

by James Egan Oct 17th 2008 at 5:30PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Culture, MMO industry, News items


It's been pretty eventful lately in terms of EVE Online news. As a recap: the Quantum Rise expansion was announced, new features are on the way, the backstory was advanced through a new video, controversy and even outright rage ensued over disabling ghost training, a Quarterly Economic Newsletter was released, and there have been concerns over the future of EVE given Iceland's economic woes.

While some of these news items are mentioned in the latest EVE Online newsletter (aside from the ghost training fiasco), CCP Games has also given some attention to the EVE community itself, something Massively has been been taking note of as well. It seems our friend and EVE community puppetmaster David Perry (aka CrazyKinux) has just gotten the nod from CCP for his latest effort.

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Tags: blog-pack, bloggers, blogs, ccp, ccp-games, community, crazy-kinux, crazykinux, david-perry, eve, eve-blog-pack, eve-online, eve-online-newsletter, newsletter, sci-fi

Warhammer Online NDA lifts tomorrow (August 19th)

by James Egan Aug 18th 2008 at 3:15PM

Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Launches, Warhammer Online, News items


The Warhammer Online NDA is expected to lift tomorrow, according to Mark Jacobs, GM of Mythic Entertainment. The announcement has popped up in a few places, but the message is clear: the NDA is lifting. Jacobs' announcement also touched upon why they're running the Open Beta as they are and early client downloads, but it's the NDA lift that seems to be catching most everyone's attention.

Jacobs said, "We expect to lift it tomorrow morning. I was hoping it was going to be today but I wanted to wait till I got the beta reports from the weekend and we just didn't have enough time to get everything coordinated with our partners in order for the press release to go out today." Jacobs also stated that he'll explain the reasons for the delayed NDA release tomorrow. WAR bloggers everywhere are already freaking out (in a good way) over the news, so expect a literal flood of Warhammer Online info for tomorrow.
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Tags: announcement, beta, bloggers, breaking, client, closed-beta, download, ea-mythic, gm, mark-jacobs, mythic, mythic-entertainment, nda, nda-lift, open-beta, war

AoC beta: a tale of two clients

by Samuel Axon May 3rd 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Age of Conan, Bugs, Events, real-world, Forums, Launches, New titles, News items


Frustrated with the Age of Conan open beta's serious performance problems? Worried that the game won't be ready for retail in just a couple of weeks? Don't worry too much; not it is all as it seems. Word on the virtual street is that the open beta client is an old build with issues long since resolved in the closed beta version.

When the IGN beta event finally began on Thursday, thousands of excited gamers ended up more frustrated than entertained. The experience has been marred by low framerates, stuttering, and frequent hard crashes. Admittedly, it's a beta; some of that is to be expected. But it's bad, and since the game's retail release is less than three weeks away, there's an air of concern that Age of Conan will hit retail in an unplayable state. The reality is more complex than that.

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Tags: age-of-conan, aoc, beta, bildo, bloggers, bugs, client, closed-beta, crashes, forums, framerate, funcom, ign, ign-beta-event, keen, open-beta, performance, stuttering

The suspicion of [Name Removed]

by Brenda Holloway Apr 24th 2008 at 10:31AM

Filed under: Real life, Opinion, Second Life, Free-to-play, Legal, Virtual worlds, Humor


Van Hemlock would like to talk about a certain virtual world, but, alas, he cannot. It's not because he doesn't want to -- he does. Or because he thinks any less of ... this place, because he doesn't. It's just because he's careful. A certain entity has laid claim to some letters placed next to other letters, and he's just respecting their rights. Van Hemlock isn't angry. He's just confused.

Other games and virtual worlds have trademarks and yet manage not to anger their fan communities .... Right or wrong? We don't know, but Van Hemlock's hilarious take on the matter had us smirking and turning certain trademarked properties into pieces of public art for fun.

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Tags: bloggers, copyright, humor, legal, linden-lab, opinion, second-life, sl, trademark, van-hemlock, virtual-worlds

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