The team behind Scarlet Legacy announced today details about the game's Aid Systems built into the MMO. The strategy behind the automating tool, which automates typical activities that players use on a frequent basis, is to allow for easier learning for players new to the genre and the ability to ignore tedious tasks for the hardcores. Check it out.
Microvolts, the Third Person Shooter Toy MMO from Rock Hippo Productions, is diving into summer with the Summer Recharge Patch. Be on the look out for a new map, new clothing items and more!
The Aion team is proud today to announce the details of patch 2.6, coming to players August 3rd. Features will include a solo version of the Empyrean Crucible instance, Difficulty level adjustments, and more. Check it out.
The Turbine team has released a new piece of concept art for the Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming expansion, The Rise of Isengard. The art depicts Draigoch, one of the most powerful living creatures in all of Middle Earth.
Drew Wood was on hand at SOE's Fan Faire this year for the reveal of DC Universe's first DLC pack: "Fight for the Light". After the initial presentation Drew had some time to chat with Creative Director Jens Anderson about the Green Lantern DLC, and what it all means for the game.
In this week's dedicated The Secret World column, Managing Editor Bill Murphy takes a look at what we learned from the EA Showcase's dungeon reveal. The classless system, the combat, the story, and more were discussed.
In this week's column, Managing Editor Bill Murphy takes a look at the recent unveiling of Planetside 2 and wonders aloud whether or not the MMOFPS will be enough to bring SOE back into the good graces of the hardcore MMO gamer.
Although the plan had been to include PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, at this point only the two consoles will be supported during the Call of Duty Elite beta that began today.
No reason for the decision was cited. An updated version of the beta FAQ states, "Currently, we do not plan to launch a version of the beta for the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops."
The FAQ also reveals that the beta is launching only on Xbox 360, but will soon bring PS3 players into the fold. There is no exact date for when PS3 players will get in, but at this point, the large majority of 360 players who signed up to participate aren't in either, so there's no reason to get angry over alleged console bias.
The creator of NBA Jam, Mark Turmell, has left EA Sports.
The news has been confirmed by EA, saying in a statement sent to Kotaku, "We appreciate Mark's contribution to Tiburon and EA Sports and wish him well in future endeavors." As for what those future endeavors might be, Kotaku reports Turmell is headed to FarmVille maker Zynga.
Following initial rumors of an NBA Jam revival early last year, it was confirmed that Mark Turmell had joined up with EA Tiburon as senior creative director. Turmell would serve as a consultant on the NBA Jam game that came to Wii (and later, 360 and PS3, once NBA Elite 11 was canceled), which was developed at EA Canada. Tiburon is the studio responsible for the Madden and NCAA Football series, as well as Tiger Woods PGA Tour.
Those hoping to attend the first ever Call of Duty XP event in Los Angeles later this year will want to be on their computers next Tuesday morning, credit card in hand.
Tickets will go on sale July 19 at 10am Pacific for $150. It sounds pricey, but as was noted when the event was first announced, 100% of ticket sales go to the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit group that supports military veterans -- this isn't a case of Activision being greedy. According to Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg, $150 wouldn't have covered all the expenses of the event anyway, "so this is partly about raising money for a great cause, and it's partly about just giving something back to our fans."
Each ticket allows its owner to visit both days of the event, September 2 and 3. Only two tickets can be purchased by a single person. Buyers need to know exactly who will be using each ticket -- a full name and certain unspecified "info" will be required for each person when buying the tickets. Those who attend need to be at least 18 years old and have an ID with them when visiting the 12 acre compound located outside of Los Angeles.
Duke Nukem Forever had a relatively strong debut in June -- its combined sales of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC versions sold better than every other game in the United States with the exception of L.A. Noire last month, according to NPD Group numbers covering May 29 through July 2.
L.A. Noire sold 419,000 copies, while Duke Nukem Forever sold 376,300, Giant Bomb reprots. These numbers, like all NPD software sales, only account for physical sales, not digital.
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For many, the highlight of Nintendo's weekly downloadable offerings will be the 3DS Netflix app. It isn't the only new item available to download today, and despite Nintendo making no mention of it whatsoever, the Wii's Virtual Console is now home to Super E.D.F.: Earth Defense Force.
Neither Nintendo of America's tweets nor its announcement sent out to media and published online makes mention of how Super Earth Defense Force is out now for $8. It joins WiiWare's 3D Pixel Racing ($5) as the only new Wii download titles this week.
Despite the similarity in names, this Earth Defense Force has nothing to do with D3 Publisher's two recent games of the same name, EDF 2017 and EDF: Insect Armageddon. Those are both a part of the Global Defense Force series, whereas the Super Nintendo game was a horizontal shooter from the early 90s that began as an arcade title.
Before it came to be the game we know today, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow started out as a remake of the original Castlevania. Players therefore would have again assumed the role of Simon Belmont, not Gabriel Belmont, who ended up becoming the main characters in LoS.
At the recent Gamelab conference in Barcelona, Konami showed off an early concept video that demonstrates what Simon would have looked like had he been the star of the game. Simon appears shortly after the 1:20 mark, quick lays the smackdown, and is gone before you know it.
While Simon didn't make it into the final game, you can still see his influence; Gabriel's armor is similar to that of Simon's in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, a game whose focus on exploration was also an inspiration to LoS' developers.
"Tell us something about your game that people don't already know." That was a question that we recently and repeatedly asked a bunch of developers while checking out a game. We didn't want the usual, "this game has 12 weapons that feel like 24 because of the alternate fire for each" factoid. We asked for stuff like whether a feature was cut, or if someone put in a picture of their dog in a poster within one of the levels. Think of this as the gaming equivalent of hearing that one of James Cameron's goals was to feature "the ultimate cat-fight between badass moms" in Aliens. We asked twenty developers to tell us one piece of trivia for their game, and here's what they said.
Battlefield 3: From executive producer Karl-Magnus Troedsson: "There might be one thing that maybe not everyone noticed what we did in the EA press conference [at E3] -- I challenge all hardcore Battlefield fans to take a look at the absolute first couple seconds of the presentation. There's an audio cue in there you might recognize -- it's an homage to Battlefield 1942. It starts out with a tune from 1942."
BioShock Infinite: Creative director Ken Levine gives us an alternate take on the one of the more significant narrative changes between the original BioShock and the upcoming Infinite: "In the early story briefs of BioShock Infinite, Elizabeth was mute." Which makes for an interesting inversion of having a chatty protagonist accompanied by a mute companion.
Just as the Call of Duty series is getting free social networking features with Call of Duty Elite (the beta of which begins today), Battlefield 3 will bring with it something similar in Battlelog.
As announced during E3, Battlelog provides players with a place to check out statistics, track unlocks and awards, communicate with other players, and so on.
The German Battlefield blog seems to have jumped the gun by posting several pictures of Battlelog from an alpha trial version. The post, originally located here, has since been pulled, but not before fansite Battlefieldo noticed.
"Please, please, please, don't let them break the game I loved and played for 100+ hours last year" -- that has to be the most common annual refrain of the sports gamer. And who could blame us? Having lived through The QB Vision Cone™, Read and Lead Passing™, Liquid A.I.™ Analog Spiral System™, Crease Control™, and The Truck Stick™ (only one of those ridiculous marketing terms isn't real), we've come to expect that, for the sake of adding a bullet point, the beauty and balance of a great game can be cast into disarray. Last year's NCAA Football 11 was just such a great game, and I'm more than a little relieved to report that this year's entry does nothing to damage that legacy.
In fact, to the casual observer, it would seem they've done nothing to the game... at all. That's because, while the list of updates and improvements to NCAA 12 is definitely extensive, the enhancements tend to be of the type that are either buried in menus (things like custom playbooks and custom conferences), or require some familiarity with the series to recognize their significance.
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One of the playable characters on Diablo III game, the Monk class is a direct opposite of Barbarian class. This holy warrior of God is very quick to attack but quite fragile when hit. It is advised to all players who use this class to focus more on combination-based melee attacks to better employ the Monk's swiftness in attacking opponents. Though the Monk class uses martial arts fighting for dispatching adversaries, they also simultaneously protects himself and possibly his allies by using Holy Magic to strengthen his defensive, debuffs and offensive skills.
SG Interactive unleashed a taste of the Jurassic period today for players of Project Blackout, an online free-to-play first-person shooter (FPS), with an all new gameplay mode. Pitting players against each other as humans or dinosaurs, Dino Modereveals which species are cunning and lethal enough to rise to the top of the food chain.
alaplaya today announced that the Shining Desert, a vast and sandy expanse which lies at the heart of ARGO Online, will play host to the steampunk-fantasy MMORPG's first official "Great Field War" this Saturday, July 16, at 6 pm alaplaya time (9 pm PST).
Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming patch 1.18 is an update that will alter a lot of the original gameplay systems. Among those changes, the removal of the fatigue system is one of the most notable ones.
With two weeks to go until Rusty Hearts Closed Beta launches on July 27! Until now, Rusty Hearts has not revealed much detail on Frantz, the third main character in Rusty Hearts. This week, Perfect World Entertainment is releasing the first Rusty Hearts Developer Diary and spotlighting Frantz in a blogpost.
With the advent of Rift's update 1.4 that introduces Cross Shard LFG (Looking for Group) system, Blizzard today announces that the new Real ID Party feature is now available for testing. This feature allows World of Warcraft players to invite their Real ID friends of the same faction to a party regardless of the realm they play on, and then queue up for a 5-player normal or Heroic dungeon.
Trickster Online has received a major update which includes an all-new Pet System, as well as significant improvements to the Wedding System and Egg Shop.
The winners of RIFT Create a Colossus Contest have been announced. We collected the winners' artworks and the other 22 terrifying semi-finalists listing below. And also, all of the creations can be check out on the main contest page at deviantART. Have fun.
As RO2 (Ragnarok Online 2) which was rated high after the first CBT will enter its second CBT stage soon, I got to try it out ahead of time and took a sneak peek at the wholly new game systems and cores.
New items added to your bags (from looting, trading, etc.) are now highlighted in the bag UI the first time they are seen. Once you close the bag for the first time after obtaining a new item, the highlight is removed. Souls are now available from your friendly neighborhood Calling trainer. Removed the Soul Quests, although players who currently have these quests will be able to turn them in normally.
Well for myself I don't really do those, well not hard ones at least. Now and then I have a daily challenge reach certain level or finish something, most of the time just to motivate me to level up abit, apart from that I don't really do anything else. o.o I'm just way too lazy to do difficult challenges.
As RO2 (Ragnarok Online 2) which was rated high after the first CBT will enter its second CBT stage soon, I got to try it out ahead of time and took a sneak peek at the wholly new game systems and cores.
TERA Korean version offered a accessorial service - 'face-lift' to tickle players' curiosity. On June 16th, NHN started an event called 'Looking for face-lift talent' at TERA's official site. Recently, the result has been finally announced. The following characters are created by the winners in this event.
Why not make the really big characters be tank like...more HP and tougher to take down (able to take a beating easier). But, they would be slower and they obviously couldn't stealth either or hide behind rocks. Why couldn't a big huge character wield two two-handed weapons? If he is big enough, I've seen games with small looking two-handed weapons compared to the character...
The latest patch of Eden Eternal includes the introduction of the Zumi as a playable race, expands on already perilous dungeons and adds a ranking based rewards system. The new features serve as both an excellent starting point for new players as well as highly anticipated end-game content for veterans. The first of a new [...]
SG Interactive has announced today that the popular free-to-play MMORPG Trickster Online has received a major update which includes an all-new Pet System, as well as significant improvements to the Wedding System and Egg Shop. With the update, a New Pet Evolution System has been streamlined so that players are guaranteed stat increases at each [...]
GPotato has announced that the latest update of Iris Online, Tears of Arcana v1.20. Ready to launch on July 19th, v1.20 will bring some awaited features including expanded game content, numerous chances to obtain rewards, and some new items. Players will have to defend Arcana once again, as a new dimensional rift has opened releasing [...]
Today we present you this exclusive video of Luvinia Online showing some underwater gameplay in Janas Lake. Remeber that you can get a Closed beta Key Here The world of Luvinia beckons players into a realm where humans, orcs, gnomes and dwarves once co-existed in peace; however, destiny never stands still. The stars that once [...]
Aeria Games has released a new trailer for Realm of the Titans. The new trailer highlights ROTT's Titan's Eye map, a two lane 5v5 battlefield loaded with new features. Titan's Eye is the second addition to ROTT's battlefield options. New maps and other content releases are scheduled to appear in the game after its upcoming [...]
World of Ants is a free to play game for internet browsers where players must to lead an entire ant colony. The game is completely playable in browser and on Facebook.
With the beginning of July, our top 10 Browser games arrives. These are our Best July 2011 Browser games. Enjoy it and don't forget to comment. Do you agree with our list? 10 Terra Militaris is a MMO browser-based, RTS, game, with unparalleled graphics and gameplay, where you will battle alongside thousands of other players [...]
The creator of NBA Jam, Mark Turmell, has left EA Sports. 
