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• New Marvel Heroes trailer is all about cleaning up the kitchen
• Guild Wars 2 tops UK sales, lags behind SWTOR
• MV Guide: September 3 - 9, 2012
• Age of Conan heralds Secrets of Dragon's Spine update series
• The Daily Grind: How long will you suffer bugs and outages?
• MMO Week in Review: PAX Prime 2012
• PAX Prime 2012: Riot and the North American regionals
• EVE Evolved: Fitting a brawler frigate for PvP
• One Shots: Abyss
• Rise and Shiny revisit: Order and Chaos Online
• PAX Prime 2012: Hands-on with PlanetSide 2

New Marvel Heroes trailer is all about cleaning up the kitchen Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: Super-hero, Trailers, Video, Previews, News items, Free-to-play, Marvel Heroes Yes, you read that title correctly. Marvel Heroes has put out a trailer that's all about cleaning up the kitchen. Specifically, cleaning up Hell's Kitchen, one of the cheapest areas of Manhattan and a hotbed of organized crime and ethnic tensions. (In the Marvel universe, anyway. In the real world it's pretty high-rent now.) Fans of Marvel can probably guess at the major players in the trailer just by knowing the area. Even if you're not familiar with the comics, however, the trailer makes it clear that the area is crawling with crime under the direction of the infamous Kingpin, with both relatively normal thugs with guns and superpowered threats like Electra and Bullseye. Plenty of space for an enterprising hero to clean things up, in other words. Check out the full trailer just past the break. If that makes you curious for more information about how the game plays, you can jump back a little and read our hands-on impression. [Source: Gazillion Entertainment press release] Continue reading New Marvel Heroes trailer is all about cleaning up the kitchen New Marvel Heroes trailer is all about cleaning up the kitchen originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

Guild Wars 2 tops UK sales, lags behind SWTOR Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Guild Wars 2, Free-to-play Guild Wars 2 is the second largest non-World of Warcraft PC MMO launch in UK history according to Chart-Track. The new fantasy title from ArenaNet topped sales charts this week but still sold less at retail than Star Wars: The Old Republic did at launch. That said, Chart-Track doesn't release exact sales figures, nor does it count digital sales. Guild Wars 2 is the first PC-only title to take the UK top spot since Football Manager 2011 in 2010. Guild Wars 2 tops UK sales, lags behind SWTOR originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: Chart-Track Via: Joystiq

MV Guide: September 3 - 9, 2012 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Livestream, Miscellaneous, MV Guide MV Guide is a weekly rundown of the MMO gaming events planned on Massively TV. Every week, the Massively Stream Team logs in to play various MMOs live and in person, and we'd love for you to drop by the channel and visit. We have a combination of regular weekly games and new surprises each week, so you'll find a variety of titles to watch. During our streamed events, you can participate in the live chat, ask questions to learn about the game, or simply spend some time with Massively staff and readers. (Of course, streaming is subject to the whims of outside forces like server-side gremlins once in a while.) Follow along after the jump to see what's on this week's schedule, and let us know if there's a specific game you'd like to see streamed next week! Continue reading MV Guide: September 3 - 9, 2012 MV Guide: September 3 - 9, 2012 originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

Age of Conan heralds Secrets of Dragon's Spine update series Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Patches, Previews, Free-to-play Hyboria's about to get a lot more rowdy, as if that was possible. Funcom announced that it is planning a series of updates for Age of Conan called Secrets of Dragon's Spine, with the first update coming in the next few months. The key focus for this content will be in the titular desert region of the Dragon's Spine, located southwest of Pteion. These updates will not only introduce a new zone, but also plenty of additional quests, dungeons, challenges, and even a new mount type. Funcom says that the Dragon's Spine will be around the same size as the coast of Ardashir, and will feature a new raid and PvP area. The three dungeons to be introduced are the Coils of Ubah Kan, the Sepulchral of the Wyrm and the Slithering Chaos. Creative Director Craig Morrison hopes that this announcement gets fans pumped up: "Our version of Hyboria has grown into a vast online world since we launched back in 2008. With the Secrets of Dragon's Spine update, we are moving into an incredibly exciting part of Robert E. Howard's work, and I think both Age of Conan players and fans of Howard's work alike will find a lot to enjoy once they get to explore this new content." [Source: Funcom press release] Age of Conan heralds Secrets of Dragon's Spine update series originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

The Daily Grind: How long will you suffer bugs and outages? Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Bugs, MMO industry, New titles, Opinion, Guild Wars 2, The Daily Grind In the 10 days since its head start launch, Guild Wars 2 has suffered multiple outages and bugs, seemingly a new one every day. Even if we discount those players who lost their accounts to hacking, we've still seen players affected by in-game mail outages, exploits, overflow bugs, character creation and deletion issues, server transfer problems, guild system implosions, and a new email authentication system (which was meant to reduce the rate of hackings) that rendered even some Massively commenters and staffers unable to play the game over chunks of this holiday weekend. Perhaps the issue affecting the most people over the course of the last week has been the near-permanent offline status of the Black Lion Trading Company, the game's auction hall. Quaggans are cute and all, but I'm starting to get impatient myself; I've yet to see the trading post live for even a minute. So today we're wondering when exactly your patience runs out when it comes to large-scale MMO launches and their immediate aftermath. How long do you give a just-launched game to get its act together before you give up and go back to more established, tried-and-true MMOs? And if you leave in a huff, do you forgive and forget and return when the game has settled down? Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind! The Daily Grind: How long will you suffer bugs and outages? originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

MMO Week in Review: PAX Prime 2012 Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. If you missed a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week, you've come to the right post. NCsoft dominated the MMO headlines this week, and not necessarily the way it might prefer. While the studio ushered in the launch of ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2, it also announced it plans to shut down beloved superhero MMO City of Heroes and developer Paragon Studios in November. And though Guild Wars 2 can claim a million prepurchase copies sold and a 400,000-person concurrency peak, it's also been hampered by a hastily implemented new email authentication system, phishing scams, and exploits, not to mention forum, in-game mail, and trading post outages. Meanwhile, at PAX Prime 2012, we caught a glimpse of PlanetSide 2, WildStar, Torchlight II, Phantasy Star Online 2, RIFT's Storm Legion, League of Legends, World of Warplanes, SMITE, and Dungeons and Dragons Online. We've posted a few more of this week's top MMO stories just past the jump. Continue reading MMO Week in Review: PAX Prime 2012 MMO Week in Review: PAX Prime 2012 originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

PAX Prime 2012: Riot and the North American regionals Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Events, real-world, Interviews, PvP, Opinion, Free-to-play, Massively Interviews, Massively Event Coverage, MOBA, League of Legends It's a good time to be a League of Legends fan. With the European regionals at Gamescom and North American regionals here at PAX Prime, there's plenty of excitement. The Riot team is gearing up for big changes in Season Three while continuing to support its incredibly large community. We sat down with the busy and gracious Associate Producer Paul Bellezza to talk about what Riot is looking forward to in the near future. Continue reading PAX Prime 2012: Riot and the North American regionals PAX Prime 2012: Riot and the North American regionals originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

EVE Evolved: Fitting a brawler frigate for PvP Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Game mechanics, Professions, PvP, Endgame, Opinion, EVE Evolved, Guides, Sandbox EVE Online's PvP usually has more in common with a game of chess than a dogfight; it helps to have more pieces on the board than the other guys, and tactics usually play a more important role than the size or cost of your ship. You can't automatically win by bringing a gun to a knife fight in EVE, but you can win by being better with a knife than the other guy or by bringing a dozen knives and just flinging them all over the place. The lowly tech 1 frigate may not seem so ferocious on its own, but a hundred frigates can smash even capital ships to bits. Despite the advantage of bringing more pilots to a fight, the frigate is also one of the best ships for soliciting solo PvP. Its superior speed and maneuverability will help you avoid groups of enemy ships and pursue individual targets. It's most common to find lone players in faction warfare areas and the borders of nullsec, and there are even dedicated wardec corps that will let you find solo PvP in highsec. Frigate duels can provide a fun and much more twitch-based style of combat than you'll find elsewhere in EVE, and a well-designed frigate can punch far above its own weight. The Rifter has always been the ship of choice for close-range frigate PvP, but Inferno 1.1 gave all four races an equivalent option. In this week's EVE Evolved, I give close-range PvP setups for the Minmatar Rifter, Amarr Punisher, Gallente Incursus and Caldari Merlin that make full use of the Inferno 1.1 overhaul. Continue reading EVE Evolved: Fitting a brawler frigate for PvP EVE Evolved: Fitting a brawler frigate for PvP originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

One Shots: Abyss Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Galleries, Screenshots, MMO industry, Star Trek Online, One Shots, The Secret World, Perpetuum, Miscellaneous Who doesn't know Nietzsche's famous quote about the abyss? When you look into an abyss, the abyss entices you to buy some stuff in the cash shop. It was something like that, anyway. Today's breathtaking featured screenshot of a character meditating before an abyss originated in none other than The Secret World. Submitter Aedesius wrote to One Shots, I've really been enjoying TSW; it's like a breath of fresh air and such a beautiful-looking game. Enjoy this screenshot of one of many amazing vistas in TSW. Let's go do that! Aedesius' pic and a few others are just a leap into infinity past the break. Continue reading One Shots: Abyss One Shots: Abyss originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

Rise and Shiny revisit: Order and Chaos Online Posted: 02 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Game mechanics, Previews, Opinion, Free-to-play, Mobile, Casual, Rise and Shiny It's been over a year since I last officially looked at Order and Chaos Online. The funny thing is that when I reread my older article, I immediately notice how my experience has not really altered since then. I pretty much had the exact play experience. What has changed is my appreciation for much of what the game does. I am still impressed by certain parts and quite bored by others, but overall the presentation is where the mobile title shines. There have been a few developments over the last year but not many. One of the biggest was the addition of mounts. I checked them out and basically spent my time between the two servers: one for Android players and another for iOS. I even struggled with streaming the game from my iPad! Continue reading Rise and Shiny revisit: Order and Chaos Online Rise and Shiny revisit: Order and Chaos Online originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

PAX Prime 2012: Hands-on with PlanetSide 2 Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: Betas, Sci-fi, Previews, PvP, Opinion, Hands-on, Massively Hands-on, Massively Event Coverage, PlanetSide 2 Sony Online Entertainment's PlanetSide 2 is still in the process of development and beta testing, but the team brought the game to PAX for its North American tradeshow debut. If you really want to know what it's like, you can always sign up for the beta yourself. Otherwise, you can skip below this cut to hear about our hands-on time with the game on the show floor. Continue reading PAX Prime 2012: Hands-on with PlanetSide 2 PAX Prime 2012: Hands-on with PlanetSide 2 originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

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