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Prime Battle for Dominus: Did You Miss the Prime Battle for Dominus Webcast?

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 08:33 AM PDT

No need to worry, two of the videos from the webcast for the highly anticipated three faction PvP MMORPG have surfaced on YouTube. One focuses on the Character Creation in the game, while the other shows off a little bit of gameplay.

Earthrise: First Major Patch Update

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 08:26 AM PDT

The team at Masthead Studios are proud to announce that Earthrise's first major content patch launched on July 14th, giving players improved performance with the game's client, as well as a netcode optimization, guild ranks and quest enhancements.

Rusty Hearts: Closed Beta Date, Character Details, New Developer Diary

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 08:15 AM PDT

The Rusty Hearts team had a busy day yesterday, revealing details about the third of their major characters, Frantz. In addition, they've also released a new video Dev Blog over on YouTube revealing details about the gameplay of Rusty Hearts. Finally, they've announced the start of the Closed Beta, due to begin July 27th.

DC Universe Online: Story of the Week: Green Lantern Hits DCUO

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 08:02 AM PDT

This week's Story of the Week is all about Hal Jordan, thanks to SOE's Austin Studio announcement from Fan Faire 2011. During the show, it was announced that DC Universe Online's first DLC pack would be "Fight the Light" and allow players the ability to make characters with Yellow and Green power rings.

General: Community Spotlight: Why Is Raiding So Unpopular?

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 07:04 AM PDT

In this week's Community Spotlight, Community Manager Mike Bitton takes a look at MMOExposed's post wondering why raiding has become so unpopular as of late. There's a lot of good discussion already going on, so take a look.

General: StarCraft II MMO Mod 'StarCraft Universe' Alpha Trailer

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:43 PM PDT

Months ago StarCraft II modder Ryan Winzen released a video of his StarCraft II MMO mod "World of StarCraft," which, while impressive, attracted the ire of Blizzard's lawyers due to concerns over the use of the mod's name code. The issue was eventually resolved and Winzen pushed forward with the project under the new name "StarCraft Universe," and today he's released the first alpha gameplay trailer of the mod, showing significant improvement.

Eudemons Online: Free Gift Keys!

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:40 PM PDT

MMORPG is working with TQ Digital to give away gift packs to celebration new class vampire joins to Eudemons Online! 1000 gift packs will be offered to help make your journey of adventure as easy as possible! Get yours today!

MapleStory: Exclusive "Age of Battle" PvP Trailer

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:07 PM PDT

This latest MapleStory trailer shows off PvP in the Age of Battle, one part of a series of summer content updates called Chaos.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: BioWare to Make "Some announcements" at Comic-Con

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:21 PM PDT

This week's Friday Update on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website features a developer blog detailing the process involved in creating the opening cinematics for the game's various classes. Additionally, BioWare is sharing their plans for this year's San Diego Comic-Con, where they are said to be making "some announcements."

Allods Online: Patch 2.0.04: Rise of the Gods Has Gone Live!

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:22 AM PDT

The Gala-Net team is pleased to announce that the latest patch update for Allods Online, 2.0.04, went live today. With it, the patch brings the reincarnation system allowing a high level character to create an alt sharing Item Shop items, new zones for the high level players and more!

General: C9 Closed Beta Begins in Japan

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:14 AM PDT

C9, one of the Eastern Market's most anticipated MMOs from Webzen, has announced launched its closed beta. The 3D Action MMORPG is highly anticipated by its audience partly due to the heavy involvement of prominent voice actors and song writer Kanno Yoko. Now that the game has entered Beta, the team anticipates further hype to be drawn out.

4Story: Defenders of Broa Update

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:03 AM PDT

The 4Story team has revealed the details behind the Defenders of Broa update that launched today, including a fix of an exploit within the game that allowed for people to jump ship to the stronger team, the Aerial War day change, the introduction of the new Gemstone and level rewards.

Remnant Knights: GameSamba Partners With FUNimation Entertainment

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:55 AM PDT

GameSamba, the MMO publisher behind games like Realms Online and the upcoming Remnant Knights, has paired up with FUNimation Entertainment, a leading distributor of Japanese Animation in the US, in a bid to achieve cross-promotion between the products of both companies

Prime Battle for Dominus: The Worlds and Combat System of the Game - Live Dev Chat

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:25 AM PDT

A new press release from Pitchblack Games keeps us up to date with the worlds of Prime Battle for Dominus, with 11 worlds being profiled and the combat system of the game, where Pitchblack has released details on the death penalty, targeting and more. On top of it all, later today at 12PT (3ET) the devs will be taking part in a Live Chat. Check out the details.

Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures: Campaign for Iceberg 3 Roundtable Interview

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:33 PM PDT

Recently our own Mike Bitton was invited to sit in on a roundtable interview with Todd Carlson and Justin Dazet of SOE, as well as Dave Filoni, the Director of Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The topic on hand was the upcoming Season 4 of the show, as well as the tie-in for Clone Wars Adventures: Campaign for Iceberg 3.

General: XXX: Girl Gamers Go Wild

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:43 PM PDT

Isabelle Parsley tackles the misconceptions of girl gamers in this week's Player Perspectives.

EVE Online: Kristoffer "CCP Soundwave" Touborg Interview

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:30 PM PDT

MMORPG.com Industry Relations Manager Garrett Fuller sat down with EVE Online Lead Designer Kristoffer "CCP Soundwave" Touborg to discuss the game and some of the more recent events, including the release of Incarna and the emergency Council of Stellar Management Summit.

Rift: The Future of Rift: A Q&A With Scott Hartsman

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:57 PM PDT

Managing Editor Bill Murphy sat in on a telephone press conference with Executive Producer of Trion's flagship title Rift, Scott Hartsman. An upcoming Producer's Letter, set to be hosted on the game's official forums, was the main topic of discussion as Bill and a conference call of his peers addressed with Scott some of Rift's plans moving forward.

Rift: State of the Game Producer's Letter

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Scott Hartsman released his State of the Game Producer's Letter today on the Official Website Forums for Rift, Trion's MMORPG. See the plethora of new content littered throughout Scott's address and be sure to stay tuned for our Managing Editor, Bill Murphy's take on the whole situation.

General: Guild Sores: A Quest for Glory

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT

Sometimes the quests we pursue in our MMOs are grand, epic adventures with all manner of dangers and intrigue. And then other times... well, other times we get to be Mr. FedEx. In MMORPG.com's very own webcomic Guild Sores, this week David North takes a look at the less than glorious quests out there.
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Weekly Deals: Child of Eden, R.U.S.E., and Freedom Force

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:20 PM PDT

Child of Eden

Although Steam's summer camp sale wrapped up at the beginning of the week, Direct2Drive and Impulse (and, by extension, GameStop) have summer sales going on right now, as does Good Old Games. GOG is offering up an older title from BioShock maker Irrational Games, Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich, for just $2.39 right now. That deal will be expiring tomorrow, so you'll want to jump on it quickly if interested.

GameStop is offering up a $25 gift card with purchases of Kinect, and to go with it, several Kinect games have been discounted to $29.99. Among them is Child of Eden, a game that -- despite its poor sales in June -- is most definitely worth your money at full price, let alone for $30.

Also of note is GamersGate, which is home to discounts on a number of Tom Clancy, Assassin's Creed, and Prince of Persia titles right now. If you're looking to dive into any of those franchises, that's the place to visit this week.

Steam Improves its Content Delivery System

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 04:50 PM PDT

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If you've ever struggled to download a new game on launch day from Steam, you'll be pleased to hear that Valve has upgraded its content delivery system. This should make it easier and quicker to download new titles that are in high demand, improve download speeds worldwide, and allow for more games to be shipped through Steam.

For those who are stuck with an ISP that has a monthly bandwidth cap (you poor thing), Steam will no longer force you to download unnecessary amounts of data when a game is updated. Instead, you'll simply download whatever has been changed, rather than the entirety of the files that have been updated. Updates can now also make their way onto Steam more quickly in the first place, thanks to a simpler process for developers.

Valve's announcement revealed some upcoming features Steam will be getting through client updates, including download scheduling, bandwidth throttling, and the ability to both prioritize the order that games are downloaded in and download updates for a game while playing it (the update won't be applied until after you're done playing).

Star Wars, Videogames, and a 20-Foot Screen Equal This Amazing Student Project

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 03:03 PM PDT


A Star Wars themed game made by a graduate student attending the University of Illinois at Chicago might be the coolest game the franchise has ever seen. What was originally an attempt to adapt a real-time strategy game to a tabletop, multi-touch interface has become a Star Wars themed RTS played on a 20-foot wide multi-touch LCD screen.

After originally starting out as something called Planetary Defender in 2009, creator Arthur Nishimoto has since decided to drop certain elements in favor of focusing on "the fleet battle aspects," which amounts to combat featuring Star Wars ships, music, and sound effects.

Many of the bigger things, like Star Destroyers, were taken from Star Wars: Empire at War, while smaller units (fighters, bombers) were drawn in Paint.

Kojima Doesn't Have Time for a New Snatcher, But Would Love if Someone Else Made it

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:48 PM PDT


Snatcher hasn't really been touched in quite a long time. One of Hideo Kojima's earliest games, it didn't sell particularly well in North America, where it was only ever available on Sega CD. Kojima, who is better known for his work on the Metal Gear series, recently announced that he would be moving forward with his Suda 51 collaboration, a radio drama based on Snatcher called Sdatcher.

Inevitably, people wondered why Kojima didn't instead decide to make a Snatcher sequel. According to him, it's a matter of time. Just because he can't work on it himself, though, doesn't mean he wouldn't like to see it made.

Asked recently by the PlayStation Blog if games like L.A. Noire and Deus Ex: Human Revolution showed that there is a market for a new Snatcher, Kojima said, "L.A. Noire is a game that I really like, but unfortunately I have not played it. I think it is coming out in Japan today, so when I return, I intend to play it.

Minecraft is Now (Unofficially) on DS

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 01:00 PM PDT


PC sandbox title Minecraft is on its way to both Xperia Play and Xbox Live Arcade, but it won't stop there. We've seen modders make the game playable with a Wii Remote, and now modder smealum has taken the entire game and moved it to a Nintendo platform.

As the video above demonstrates, a working, but very basic version of Minecraft is up and running on DS. Games can't be saved, and it's the Classic version, meaning you're free to build without having to worry about running into enemies. The basic functionality of adding and removing blocks is there, as is basic terrain generation. According to smealum, maps stream from the file, "meaning really big maps can be used (1024x1024 maps are fully playable)."

The 161kb file can be downloaded here. You'll need a way to get your file onto your DS; not just anyone will be able to play it. The inability to save is a real downer, as the beauty of Minecraft is building your world over time -- it's not necessarily the sort of thing you'd want to play from scratch every time. This is, of course, a modder's project and not an official release, so its omission is excusable. The fact that it works at all is very impressive.

Neither Child of Eden Nor Shadows of the Damned Had a Big June

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT


Yesterday's release of the NPD figures for June featured a distinct lack of two of the month's most original titles, Child of Eden and Shadows of the Damned. Rockstar's L.A. Noire was unsurprisingly still at the top of the charts, followed by Duke Nukem Forever -- by many accounts a bad game that perhaps benefited from all of the negative coverage. But where were Ubisoft and EA's original titles? As it turns out, neither was anywhere close to ranking inside the top ten.

Child of Eden, the spiritual successor to Rez, managed to sell 34,000 copies, good enough to rank it as the 83rd best seller in June, the NPD Group revealed to Joystiq. To be fair, it was available only on Xbox 360 and came out halfway through the month. Hopefully the PS3 release and positive word of mouth will help it to sell well as time goes on as it is, in my estimation, a terrific game.

Shadows of the Damned, the collaboration between Goichi "Suda51" Suda and Shinji Mikami, faired even more poorly, selling 24,000 copies total on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It had even less time on store shelves than Child of Eden, although its problem may have been a lack of marketing -- its release was met with more than a few, "Wait, that's out?" comments, which is never a good sign.

This Week in the 1UP Community 7/11/11

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Let's not let Google+ take over all the limelight here! There's plenty of stuff provided by the 1UP Community to distract you from sifting through which friends belong in which circles and wrapping your heads around that buggy little hangout thing. Forget what all the other kids are talking about because all the cool ones are hanging out here!

Black Ops Annihilation Map Pack Out July 28 on PS3 and PC

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:45 AM PDT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation

The Annihilation map pack is slated to be released on PC and PlayStation 3 later this month, exactly one month after it came out on Xbox 360. While PS3 owners have to wait a bit longer before being allowed into the Elite beta (PC players don't get in at all), the new map pack will provide Call of Duty players with something new to do on July 28.

This is the third map pack release for Black Ops. Like the others, it contains four competitive multiplayer maps (in this case, Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo, and Hazard) and a new Zombies level (Shangri-La) for $15.

If World at War, Treyarch's last CoD game, is any indication, this will be the final map pack for Black Ops. That hasn't been announced officially, but with less than four months to go before Modern Warfare 3 is out, that doesn't leave time for much more. As it stands, those who have picked up the game at full price and every map pack have spent $105 before tax on Black Ops thus far.

Ubisoft Adopts the $10 Online Pass Model, Restricting Online Multiplayer

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:06 AM PDT

Driver San Francisco

Just as Sony recently did, Ubisoft today announced its intentions to begin shipping games with an online pass similar to what's used by Electronic Arts, Codemasters, THQ, and Warner Bros.

Known as Uplay Passport, the plan is to include a one-time use code with "many of Ubisoft's popular core games" that will grant users access to certain content that will otherwise remain locked. Among that content is online multiplayer, which has been the most frequently restricted component with these online passes.

The first game to include Uplay Passport will be Driver: San Francisco, which ships on August 30. Ubisoft's other big core release this year will be Assassin's Creed: Revelations. That seems like as good a target as any for Passport, as it'll likely be Ubisoft's best selling core game of the year. At this point, however, that isn't confirmed.

Five Games We'd Like to See from Telltale

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:48 AM PDT

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Five Games We'd Like to See from Telltale

Franchises Telltale Games should tackle now that they've made the adventure genre their own.

By: Bob Mackey July 15, 2011

Telltale Games knows what they're doing; over the course of seven years, they've transformed from a low-budget virtual Texas Hold 'Em developer to the company responsible for the newest video game adaptations of blockbuster franchises like Jurassic Park and Back to the Future. And with titles based on both The Walking Dead and Fables coming in the near future, we're all wondering what popular property Telltale will get their hooks into next. Lucky for Telltale, we have a few ideas of our own they should definitely think about picking up on -- though 1UP is in no way responsible if any of the following brainstorms drive Telltale into intractable bankruptcy. Just covering our bases, here.

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