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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: College of Corruption Test Tomorrow

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:33 AM PDT

The Warhammer Online team is inviting players to head into the public test server on Thursday, June 16th to test out the College of Corruption event scenario. The test will run for approximately five hours beginning at 2 p.m. EST.

General: Best FPS Games at E3 2011

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:07 AM PDT

In a second feature at sister site, FPSGuru.com, the editorial staff has put together a list of the best shooter titles they saw during last week's E3 convention. MMORPG.com's Bill Murphy called E3 2011 "the year of the shooter". Find out why in the Best of E3 2011 FPS Awards.

APB: Reloaded: E3 Impressions at FPSGuru.com

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:58 AM PDT

Our network partner site, FPSGuru.com, is featuring a hands on look at APB Reloaded. During E3, Bill Murphy had the opportunity to take a look at the GamersFirst reincarnation of the All Points Bulleting originally released by Realtime Studios. Check out Bill's thoughts about APB Reloaded and leave us a comment or two at FPSGuru.com. Your MMORPG.com account will automatically log you in!

Jade Dynasty: Second Anniversary Celebration Week

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:26 AM PDT

Today marks the second anniversary since the launch of Perfect World's Jade Dynasty. To celebrate the game's anniversary, the dev team has a week's worth of events for players including double XP, veteran rewards and a Royal Kingyo fish mount give away.

General: The Quiz: E3 Edition

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 05:06 PM PDT

MMORPG.com Quiz Master Drew Wood has sufficiently recovered from last week's E3 convention to pull together a new quiz based on things seen and reported on from the show floor. If you paid attention to the E3 2011 MMORPG.com Awards, you should do pretty well. You may open your booklets and begin!

Star Wars: The Old Republic: E3 2011: What We Now Know

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:52 PM PDT

Now that E3 has closed its doors for another year, MMORPG.com Community Manager Mike Bitton has gleaned all that has now been revealed about Star Wars: The Old Republic and he's got something akin to a 'wrap report' to share with you. Read on and then weigh in with your thoughts.

General: E3 2011: Rusty Hearts Hands On

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:39 PM PDT

Perfect World Entertainment was on hand at the recent E3 convention to show off one of its newest titles, Rusty Hearts. MMORPG.com's Bill Murphy had an opportunity for some hands on time with Rusty Hearts and has some impressions to share. Check them out!

EVE Online: Under Attack

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:09 PM PDT

The same group of hackers responsible, or who claim responsibility, for the recent Sony hacking incident are now attacking CCP's EVE Online server. According to a terse post on the EVE Facebook page, CCP is shutting the server down until further notice to deal with the attack.

Rift: Looking for PvPers

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:18 PM PDT

The Rift dev team has announced that it will be conducting a massive PvP Battle Royale on the public test server beginning today and lasting for the next three days. Developers will be on hand beginning at 4:30 p.m. PST today to guide the test and are looking forward to hearing feedback from players about the PvP changes being implemented in a future patch.

Runescape: Celebrate 10 Years at Runefest 2011

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:39 AM PDT

The RuneScape team has a lot of plans to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary at this year's Runefest. RuneFest 2011 will take place on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October, at the Old Billingsgate in central London.
Posted by Shri Krishna

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TERA Japan - Official desktop endorsed

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:32 AM PDT


The gaming industry and hardware industry in Japan do work closely with each other to promote their products. Last I remember, Final Fantasy XIV Online had a similar promotion back when it was first released. Now, TERA Japan is nearing the beta phase and the promotions are starting to emerge. 


Hangame Japan, the publisher, has teamed up with PC company G-Tune and introduce the official desktops for the game, NextGear-Micro and NextGear. Both systems come with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. The NextGear-Micro (USD 911.00) sports an i5-2400 CPU, 4GB of RAM and Nvidia Geforce GTX550Ti. The NextGear (USD 1484.50) comes fitted with an i7-2600 CPU, 8GB of RAM and Nvidia GTX570. You can click on the pictures below to see how each system looks like.


Customers who buy either of these 2 system will also get exclusive in-game items as shown below. They include a mount, 20 x Full Revive Scrolls (revive with 100% HP and MP), 20 x item to recover 100% MP, 20 x item to recover 100% HP and a level 35 ring which improves defense by 57, Strike by 30 and increase MP amount by 81. Not to forget a DVD installation client as well.

Dragon Ball Online (TW) - Open Beta time revealed

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:26 AM PDT


Hello all! I hope you have successfully registered for the Open Beta phase for Dragon Ball Online Taiwan seen here. Just a reminder, it is now 15th June in Taiwan, but the game servers will only start at 17:00 (or 5:00PM) Taiwanese time. Click here to check the time in Taiwan now. Please be informed that there is bound to be massive lag as a few hundred thousand players are expected to hit the servers once they are opened. Once again, below are some in-game footage I took during VIP Beta!

Update: The game is already up for Open Beta! Have fun all!

Steam opens up new Free to Play section

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:47 AM PDT


Lo and behold, guess who jumped on the Free to Play online games wagon? It is non other than Steam, the world's biggest digital games distribution platform! While not all titles are available yet, I am certainly surprised to see Steam achievements added as well. Will we see some kind of exclusives for Steam users? We shall see! Access the new Free to Play section here.
Posted by Shri Krishna
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