Frogster will be well represented at Gamescom this year, but are also proud to announce a World Premiere for their upcoming MMORPG, Eligium - The Chosen One.
4Story's website has undergone a large billing systems update today. The team has integrated the newest installment of the Playspan billing system in a bid to allow more billing power to the game itself, resulting in an increase in revenue over time.
Hedone, the forthcoming MMOFPS from Acony Games and winner of our sister site, FPSGuru.com's E3 award for Biggest Surprise, is stepping up to the plate for GamesCom 2011 where they will be showing off the game at Booth C036 in the GamesCom Online World Hall 9 in the entertainment area.
The Silkroad Online team has unveiled the details behind the upcoming content update, Legend VIII: Mysterious Temple of Jupiter. Players can expect to see a level cap increase, tons of new quests and even improved enemy AI. Check it out.
Nexon has released details about Chaos, a series of content updates that will add to the world of MapleStory, and its contribution for this week is Age of Battle. Three content patches already in and Nexon promises more in the next few weeks. Check it out.
A lot of excitement coming out of the internet today as the announcement that Earth Eternal was on its way back to the North American market. Outblaze and TurnOut Ventures made the announcement exclusively through MMORPG.com this morning, now you can check out the entire press release right here.
The news has already come out of SDCC from fans who were in attendance for some new information coming out of City of Heroes. Fan and forum poster, Archon Helios, has detailed everything they've seen out of SDCC for City of Heroes thus far. Check it out!
Earth Eternal is coming back to North American audiences. With new ownership of the game, handled now by Outblaze and TurnOut Ventures, we can expect a revamped and revived game. Within the next few weeks, players should expect to keep their eyes peeled for the Open Beta Test of the game.
An official press release that went out today announcing pre-orders for Star Wars: The Old Republic also revealed that EA and BioWare would be putting on "beta test weekends" for the game sometime this September.
MMORPG.com's Coyote Sharptongue explains how to deal with your non-gaming friends when you've just got to stand them up due to your super important gaming commitments in this latest edition of Coyote's Howling.
In this week's column, Managing Editor Bill Murphy takes a look at the recent focus on story-telling in today's upcoming MMOs and whether or not that's a good thing for the industry as a whole.
In this week's The Secret World column, Bill Murphy takes a look at the recent gameplay videos to come from EA's Summer Showcase and puts them through the analyzer that is his goofy mind. Find out why Bill thinks The Secret World is headed down the right path towards success.
Capcom is showing off Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, the not-quite-a-director's-cut version of last year's action game that will launch later this year as a reduced-price retail disc. Executive Producer Jason Leigh says that despite the similarity of content to the original Dead Rising 2, Off the Record is a significantly larger game that's seen sweeping changes in all areas, making it far too bulky to exist as a DLC add-on.
The big hook for Off the Record is that it essentially retells Dead Rising 2 as if its main character had been the first game's protagonist, war-covering photojournalist Frank West. That should be welcome news for West's fans. Off the Record incorporates plenty of other changes as well, thanks in large part to the full integration of the first game's camera system. But perhaps the most significant change, at least in terms of series standards, is the addition of a checkpoint system to help mitigate the brutality of Dead Rising's notoriously unforgiving save mechanics. But Leigh is quick to clarify that he doesn't see this as a compromise to what both the game and Capcom stand for.
One of the many things Nintendo is doing to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series is arranging a symphony concert that will be going on tour. We got a brief, but delightful taste of what's to come during Nintendo's E3 press conference, as seen in the video above. The company today announced that the first of these concerts will take place in Los Angeles, at the Pantages Theatre, on October 21. The full tour will kick off in 2012.
Individual songs from the Zelda games are being picked out by Koji Kondo and his team. Kondo has been the composer on countless Nintendo games, including many of the Mario and Zelda games made over the past few decades.
The concerts themselves are being produced by Jason Michael Paul Productions, which is also responsible for the Play! A Video Game Symphony tour.The orchestra will be made up of 70 members, and a choir will also be involved as new arrangements of classic songs from the franchise are performed.
Of all the reasons to stand in line for an hour at San-Diego Comic-Con, I think I'm most down with Capcom's booth to promote Asura's Wrath.
You wait in line, enter a soundproof booth, and you scream at the top of your lungs. Scream loud enough and they give you fake Asura hair. Well, the prize is sort of goofy, but in the case I think the real victory is simply the challenge. After being crushed by the ocean of humans milling about the show floor, you kinda just want to scream at the top of your lungs. Maybe punch things, too. And Capcom gives you that opportunity.
Four more characters have been confirmed as members of the cast in the upcoming Capcom-developed Street Fighter X Tekken mash-up.
On the Street Fighter side, series mainstay Dhalsim and his stretchy limbs will unsurprisingly be available. Poison, who was originally a Final Fight character, has also been confirmed by producer Yoshinori Ono. Tekken adds boxer Steve Fox and ninja Yoshimitsu.
Besides the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions that are in the works, SF X Tekken is also coming to PlayStaton Vita. The game will feature a bonus character -- Infamous protagonist Cole -- on Vita.
The first three downloadable characters for Mortal Kombat weren't entirely new -- Rain and Kenshi were both in previous games, and Skarlet was in Mortal Kombat II, albeit as what amounted to a glitch. NetherRealm had been keeping the identity of the fourth character close to its chest. Today it finally revealed who the last of the bunch will be: Freddy Krueger, of A Nightmare on Elm Street fame, is joining the game's cast of fighters.
Unfortunately, Krueger looks to be based on the 2010, Michael Bay-produced A Nightmare on Elm Street, as opposed to Wes Craven's 1984 original. The older film saw Krueger played by Robert Englund, whereas last year the role was assumed by Jack E. Haley, who also played Rorschach in Watchmen.
Disappointing as that may be, this is still Frederick Charles Krueger you'll be playing as in Mortal Kombat -- fatalities and all. Like the previous DLC characters, he will cost $4.99 (400 Microsoft Points) upon release on August 9.
Comic-Con International! Home of goods, games, promotions, and crazy statues of beloved cartoon characters from our childhood! And, also, really horrible revelations about those beloved cartoon characters. For instance, the fact that He-Man wears his furry man-skirt Scottish-style.
Yeah, I glanced to the side as I was walking past this massive He-Man statue and got an eyeful of what's under his barbarian togs. Turns out the answer is "nothing at all." It also turns out that "manscaping" appears to be all the rage in Eternia. Who knew?
So much for this being a family-oriented event! I mean, bodies are beautiful and we shouldn't be ashamed of them and all, but even I'm too young for this particular lesson in sex-ed. See, this is why I hate to stray outside of Comic-Con's marginalized video games ghetto. You never know what horrors await.
Whether you prefer Street Fighter to Marvel vs. Capcom or just can't wait until November for the new Ultimate version of MvC3, you'll have a new Capcom fighting game to play in about a month's time. After announcing the lengthily-titled Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition at last year's Comic-Con, this year Capcom has given us a release date: the PlayStation Network version will be out on August 23, followed a day later, on August 24, by the Xbox Live Arcade version.
Even for fans who have played 3rd Strike in one of its different forms before, there's more than a few new features here. Besides online play (which itself isn't new; the Xbox's Street Fighter Anniversary Collection had that), there will be new Trials, Tournament, and Spectator modes. Vault Points are earned by playing that can be used to unlock bonus content, and replay sharing allows players to upload videos to YouTube or watch live streaming replays.
Three different versions of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be available once the game is finally released: the Standard Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition, and Collector's Edition. By securing a pre-order, you'll be able to get early access to begin playing before TOR officially launches, as well as a Color Stone that changes the color of your weapon effect.
Today's announcement claims that pre-orders will be limited; it's unclear if this is to limit the number of people who will get in early or simply a way of encouraging gamers to act fast.
As for the different versions, the Standard Edition includes the game and 30 days of game time for $59.99. The Digital Deluxe Edition (available only through Origin) includes all of that and five virtual items (the Flare Gun, Training Droid, personal HoloDancer, HoloCam, and STAP vehicle) for $79.99. The Collector's Edition price jumps up to $149.99 and includes all of the aforementioned in addition to an exclusive mouse droid, physical items -- a Darth Malgus statue (made by Gentle Giant), Jedi Master Gnost Dural journal (from Chronicle Books), soundtrack, security key, and a map of the in-game galaxy -- and access to the in-game Collector's Store which holds CE-exclusive in-game items.
The NBA arguably has more marketable stars than any other major sport in the United States, and yet 2K Sports has decided to not use any of them to promote this year's NBA 2K game. 2K11 was centered around former Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan and included a great deal of in-game content devoted to the greatest player in league history. For 2K12, Jordan will return as the cover star, but he'll be joined by two other all-time greats: Los Angeles Lakers guard Ervin "Magic" Johnson and Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird.
Each of the three will have his own cover, all of which are more extravagant and stylized than past covers. (2K Sports says this style is a one-time thing.) The Bird and Magic covers will be available "in a limited quantity" at launch; Jordan will again be the primary cover star.
There's no indication that the limited edition versions will be any different than the Jordan version; there's no need to worry about missing out on anything more than the design if you aren't able to land a copy with Magic or Bird on the front.
Later this year, gamers and Star Wars fans will be able to get their hands on what might very well be the coolest limited edition system -- Xbox 360 or otherwise -- ever produced. Launching alongside Kinect Star Wars this holiday is the Xbox 360 Limited Kinect Star Wars Bundle, a package that includes an Xbox 360 system made to look like R2-D2.
Beyond the (supremely awesome) look of the console, there's more to it: R2-D2 sounds are played when powering it on or ejecting the disc tray (hear those here and here, courtesy of Major Nelson). According to Gizmodo, the disc tray hides a secret message -- the first time anything has been put there by Microsoft -- which reads, "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."
The included Kinect ditches the existing black color scheme in favor of white to match the system, and the accompanying wireless controller is a shiny gold with what looks like exposed wires meant to resemble C-3PO.
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As Korea-based Zemi Interactive announced, they'll launch OBT for Travia 2, an online action game that has been developed for 8 years, in the middle of August.
WoW Patch 4.2 has been released for a period of time and many players have already knocked down many bosses in Firelands and acquired a lot of powerful equipment. Particularly, some players' gear score even reached over 10,000. However, there are also some WoWers who have no interest in raids, so is there really no way for them to obtain epic items? The answer is no. We have specially sorted out some epic bound items in 4.2, just check them below!
The big event Comic-Con 2011 is a great feast for people who are engaged in or interested in programming, anime, autographs, games. Here I pick up some the first day interesting pictures from SDCC 2011 for you.
In a nutshell, the online universe takes places in the age 1000, 216 years after Dragon Ball. Players are taken into this age to prevent a group of villains led by Miira to take control of Earth in the future.
It's time to give the poor monsters a rest! Players have been honing their combat skills on the beasts from Uld for long enough. Soon they will have the chance to hack'n'slash something else - each other! The Mythos update to be released shortly will offer a change of pace from the usual dungeon crawling.
Frogster is gearing up for Gamescom, which will be held in Cologne, Germany between August 18 and 21. Until then Frogster will bring a brand new test version of TERA, as well as Runes of Magic's new fourth chapter 'Lands of Despair' as well as a top new title. Show visitors can also try out Star Trek - Infinite Space, Elsword and Wizard101 at the stand shared with Gameforge.
SOE released a new trailer for the upcoming DC Universe Online update, Fight for the Light. The trailer shows off some more of the new light-powers heading to DCUO.
In the midst of all the hub-bub surrounding San Diego Comic-Con this morning, RIFT: Planes of Telara released a bit of information about their next content update.
Tunnelers is a Free to play online action game. You control a tank, you move with it and shoot with it. You play against other people in tanks. The whole environment is situated underground in what we call 'Arenas'. At the moment there are 3 popular game modes to choose from.
There is a piece of exciting news for all the fans of Star Wars: The Old Republic as BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts, today announced that three editions of swtor (Collector's Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition and Standard Edition) are available for pre-order at participating retailers, with digital versions available exclusively at Origin.
Aeria Games, a global publisher of microtransaction based online games, today revealed that its hotly anticipated action strategy title Realm of the Titans will begin Closed Beta testing (CBT) on July 27, 2011.
Born to Fire, a new online first-person shooter for PC, is the latest title to be revealed as part of NHN Corporation's lineup for Gamescomnext month. A character-focused and highly accessible online FPS, Born to Fire will be playable at NHN's media booth in Hall 4.1, Aisle D No. 014. Visitors to the show are invited to secure a booking now to view a presentation of the game, get a hands-on preview and chat with members of the development team about Born to Fire's features and player-friendly design.
The World of Warcraft Remote app for Android has leveled up to become the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory! Blizzard has just released a brand-new update for the free official World of Warcraft application for Android devices, and you can get it now from the Android Market. With the name change comes a number of improvements and additions that will help you stay even more connected to World of Warcraft wherever you go, including:
A new video posted on the End of Nations website gives some backstory into why the nations of the world are at war and how each faction was dragged into conflict.
Tencent Games has recently announced that its super hot new MMORPG in 2011, Blade & Soul, will show up at ChinaJoy 2011 this July, where a limited number of original poster packs autographed by the well-known South Korean artist Kim Hyung Tae and the game's producer Bae Jae Hyun will be given away as well.
It's not a market where 10 apps get all of the users,"Ryan said in a speech at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle on Tuesday. The market is growing like crazy and you can participate in it. - Sean Ryan
With the popularization of such touch screen devices as iPhone and iPad, some graduates from the University of Illinois at Chicago in USA created a multi-user RTS touch screen game called "Fleet Commander". Being played on a 20-foot wide LCD multi-touch wall, Fleet Commander abandons the common game control mode of "keyboard + mouse", and empowers players to fight each other with the help of touch-based menus. Players are able to control their ships through simple touch gestures, like moving, shooting or dispatching small spaceships.
Gravity Interactive has released today the “Professions update” in Dragon Saga. The update features a system which allows players to gather raw materials (Gathering), refine the raw material (Processing), and use the refine material (Production) to produce items for one of the new Enchanting options, which can be used to enhance weapons, armor, and accessories: [...]
NHN will present Born to Fire, its new first person shooter title, during GamesCom, next month. We will be there, so we will get a hands-on preview and play the game. Check out here its new trailer: “Born to Fireis a character-oriented FPS for PC with five different classes to choose from, each flaunting its [...]
