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General: Tribes Ascend Open Beta This Week

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:58 AM PST

Tribes Ascend Open Beta This Week

Hi-Rez Studios has announced that the open beta for Tribes Ascend will officially kick off on Friday, February 24, 2012.

Age of Wushu: Seven Cities Testing Tour

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:13 AM PST

Seven Cities Testing Tour

Age of Wushu has been in development for approximately five years. The team has released a new video showing off some of the "rich development history" and some footage from a recent tour developers participated in. The game was shown to players in seven different cities while developers talked about what's in store.

Eden Eternal: Big Update Includes New Class

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:09 AM PST

Big Update Includes New Class

Eden Eternal players will want to check out the latest update to the game. The last patch brought a host of new content on board in the form of new maps but also brought the Ranger class into the game. In addition, the level cap has increased to 65.

General: Dragon Born Announced

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:05 AM PST

Dragon Born Announced

KoramGame has announced that its latest browser-based MMO, Dragon Born, is nearing beta testing. According to press information, Dragon Born seeks to bring the best elements of MMOs and single player RPGs to browsers.

General: FFA PVP and the Sandbox MMO

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:22 AM PST

FFA PVP and the Sandbox MMO

There is this notion among players that free-for-all PvP is a necessary and, indeed critical, component of the mythical "sandbox" game. In today's Devil's Advocate, we take a look at that notion and analyze whether or not that's a fair expectation. Check it out!

EverQuest II: Screenshot of the Week: EverQuest II Edition!

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:24 PM PST

Screenshot of the Week: EverQuest II Edition!

Everyone loves to take screenshots of their favorite games, and we want you to share them with us and the rest of the MMORPG.com community! To that end, we're back with our latest Screenshot of the Week feature, and we're looking to give out some cool swag. This week, we'll be focusing on EverQuest II screenshots!

Free Realms: SOTW: Free Realms 'Festival of Hearts' Winners Announcement

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:20 PM PST

SOTW: Free Realms

We've pored over your many awesome Free Realms 'Festival of Hearts' screenshots for our latest "Screenshot of the Week," and today we're excited to announce our winners!

Aion: Ascension 'Truly Free' Announced

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:31 PM PST

Ascension

NCSoft has officially announced that Aion will go "truly free" with the Aion: Ascension. The new version of the game will launch later this spring and will include the much-awaited 3.0 content which brings housing, mounts, an increased level cap to 60, new zones and instances into the game.

The Secret World: Release Date Set

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 08:53 AM PST

Release Date Set

Funcom has confirmed the official release date for its highly anticipated MMO, The Secret World. TSW will be unleashed on the world on June 19, 2012. Now..quick..head out to research if there's a mysterious reason behind 6-19-12!

EVE Online: A Truly Stellar Council

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:55 AM PST

A Truly Stellar Council

In today's One Jump Home column, we explore the uniqueness of the EVE Online Council of Stellar Management.

Otherland: The Making of Lambda Mall

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:33 AM PST

The Making of Lambda Mall

The Otherland team has sent out a new video featuring the process behind making the Lambda Mall, the game's central hub. Lambda Mall will allow players to buy a new look in the Metamorph Shop or take advantage of the Hacker Zone deep beneath the central area.

Guild Wars 2: Thoughts on GW 2's Beta Changes

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:28 AM PST

Thoughts on GW 2

Earlier today we noted that the Guild Wars 2 blog had been updated with several critical changes coming to the game after this past weekend's limited press closed beta. MMORPG.com's Bill Murphy spent a LOT of time in the game over the course of the event and he's got some thoughts to share about the changes the GW2 dev team has planned.

EVE Online: Redesigning Rookie Ships

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:25 AM PST

Redesigning Rookie Ships

CCP has published a new video and some screenshots showing how the dev team is hard at work redesigning rookie ships. The Velator, the Ibis and the Reaper will all be reworked to update the graphics as part of the EVE team's continuing effort to keep the graphic look of the game up to par.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Possible 'Legacy' Species

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:11 AM PST

Possible

Game Update 1.2 will see the expansion of playable species (existing species only) for the various classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic via the game's Legacy system. In the future, the Legacy system will also introduce entirely new species to the game, but which ones? We take a look at some of the possibilities in this week's column.
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The Vita's Challenge: A History of Portable Competition

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:33 PM PST

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The Vita's Challenge: A History of Portable Competition

To succeed, Sony's new handheld must escape the long shadow cast by two decades of Nintendo's domination.

By: Jeremy Parish February 21, 2012

Today marks the official U.S. launch of PlayStation Vita. It's a great system, but it has its work cut out for it. Nintendo's 3DS is making serious inroads after a soft launch, and Sony runs the very real risk of seeing history repeat itself. To date, Nintendo has triumphed against every handheld competitor to challenge it since the Game Boy launched 23 years ago. We can't predict how the Vita/3DS battle will turn out just yet, but we can certainly look to history to see how Nintendo has consistently triumphed over its impressive competitors.

The Game Boy Era

Warp Review: A Downloadable Puzzler That's Equal Parts Bloody And Brilliant

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST

Your story begins with you looking through the eyes of a creature as it's being carted through a laboratory by ominous looking scientists and military-types. An antiseptic white dominates the color palette to a point where you can almost smell the disinfectant. Once the camera zooms out, you discover that your avatar is a semi-transparent alien whose cute features are more Monsters, Inc. than menacing. Why are there so many armed guards for something so cute? Well, that question is quickly answered after you warp inside the body of a scientist and proceed to blow it into a heap of bloody chunks.

Warp is a downloadable title that continues the tradition of last year's Catherine as puzzlers wrapped in the guise of an M-rated story. Your goal is to guide your extraterrestrial out of the laboratory by any means necessary. While your powers start off with the simple ability to warp through walls, you'll quickly gain the prowess to do more complex maneuvers like hurling objects via telekinesis and creating ethereal copies of yourself. This wide array of tactical options opens up the challenges, and allow you to navigate the environment as you see fit. Say you have to cross a room filled with barrels, passive scientists, and armed guards. You're presented with the choice of either warping through the room from scientist to scientist, hurling a barrel to cause a distraction, or just go all Scanners on the room and murder everyone in sight. Warp is truly a game built for stealthy pacifists, homicidal maniacs, and everyone in-between.

OP-ED: Nintendo Direct Unlikely to Reveal Redesigned 3DS Tomorrow

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:15 PM PST

3DS Circle Pad Pro

A series of Nintendo Direct events are set to take place tomorrow, as creatively announced today through Swapnote messages sent out to 3DS owners. This is the third time Nintendo Direct is taking place and as Nintendo of America and Europe will each be hosting their own videos, as opposed to a broadcast only in Japanese, we should be getting much more information that is of interest to those outside of Japan.

The trend seems to be for Nintendo to showcase content through Nintendo Direct every two months. The first one took place in October, and although it did not bring with it any earth-shattering revelations, there were some newsworthy announcements. We received details on the 3DS system update adding 3D movie recordings and new StreetPass content, specifics on Mario Kart 7's online functionality, and new games were announced for Japan.

Your Guide to the Three New MechWarrior-Inspired Games

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST

MechWarrior fans find themselves a bit overwhelmed these days. With three separate MW-inspired games announced within months of each other -- not bad for a series that most assumed died nearly a decade ago. -- even hardcore fans might find the distinctions confusing. Presented below is our quick guide to the recent announcements.

MechWarrior Online
Platform: PC
Developer: Piranha Games
Genre: Free-to-play sim
Release date: TBA 2012
Retro inspiration: MechWarrior's two through four

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