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King of the Course: Tips and Cheats: The Ultimate Strategy Guide

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King of the Course: Tips and Cheats: The Ultimate Strategy Guide


King of the Course is a new golfing game by EA Sports for the iPhone and iPad. This is EA's first golfing game since Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and as such, there aren't real life golfers in this game. Instead, it's a Candy Crush-style level progression game with various challenges that you have to complete to earn enough points to move on. Read on for some tips and tricks for King of the Course!

Ragnarok Ash Vacuum for Shop Points Cheats and Tips

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Ragnarok Ash Vacuum for Shop Points Cheats and Tips


In this new city building MMORTS game, you will be asked to focus on empire building strategy and make your own Guild camp, gather resources then cultivate your force to resist invasions with Untimate Evil and fight against other players.

Black Desert NA and EU Publisher in Final Negotiations?

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Black Desert NA and EU Publisher in Final Negotiations?


Black Desert has been one of the most highly anticipated sandbox MMORPG this year, an exciting news just came from MMO Culture saying that Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss is currently in the "final phase of negotiations" with a potential publisher for Black Desert in North America and Europe in a news report from Korean website Inven.

Phantasy Star Online 2 – Episode 3 update announced for late August

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Phantasy Star Online 2 – Episode 3 update announced for late August


Phantasy Star Online 2's episode 3 was announced for late August, in which a new class, 2 new weapons, a new planet and more will make their appearances.

Angry Birds Epic for Coins Cheats and Tips

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Angry Birds Epic for Coins Cheats and Tips


As usual, this game is categorized into RPG genre and it features everyone's favorite birds and pigs where you will be assigned to accomplish your main goal that is to quest from stage to stage, defeating a nearly endless army of pigs, rescuing birds, earning treasure, and unlocking loads of tv, comics and other goodies. Every time, you can complete each quest on stage that you have already beaten before, you will earn experience points.

MMORPG "Onigiri" Official Service Date Announced For July 1st

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The developer CyberStep has announced that the online game Onigiri, an exciting and action-packed MMORPG, will begin official service on July 1st.

Rival Knights: Tips and Cheats: The Ultimate Strategy Guide

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Rival Knights: Tips and Cheats: The Ultimate Strategy Guide


Rival Knights is a new game in the "Where did that come from??" department by Gameloft Inc for the iPhone, iPad and Android. This game takes you back to medieval times, with jousting and tournaments, and as a knight of your own creation, your goal is to unhorse every other knight in the kingdom and become the king's top knight. Read on for some tips and tricks for Rival Knights!

Ragnarok Ash Vacuum: Tips and Cheats: The Strategy Guide

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Ragnarok Ash Vacuum: Tips and Cheats: The Strategy Guide


Ragnarok Ash Vacuum is a new city building MMORTS by Gravity Co. LTD. It's much better than the previous attempt at bringing Ragnarok to the iOS and Android platforms. This one feels like it's built for the mobile systems, complete with gameplay that Age of Warring Empire fans are sure to enjoy. Read on for some tips and tricks for Ragnarok Ash Vacuum!

MMO Show Episode 27 "Week 6/15/2014"

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MMO Show Episode 27


E3 week has me tired but I had fun. A lot of good games and news came out this week. I'll be paying for all of this news and game playing. At least for a week regaining sleep. Sad to say I did not see much coming MMO for the western world. I was hoping for a miracle game to appear. That I didn't know about already. Sadly nothing of the sort happen. We did get solid information from already established companies. So I guess we can fall on that, and hope for the best.

Flick Soccer Brazil Tests Your Finger Flicking Football Skills for Free

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Flick Soccer Brazil Tests Your Finger Flicking Football Skills for Free


Full Fat has just released a free Brazil-based spin-off of its Gold Award-winning game Flick Soccer, which tests your finger flicking skills across five challenges, either on the pitch or on the beach.

Onigiri Online First Look

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Onigiri Online First Look


Honestly guys this game pissed me off when I first started reviewing it. It was horrible and I was in the midst of making the review saying that. The footage playing on the bottom right is actually the original review.

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GW2 Updates and Content

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GW2 Updates and Content


When it comes to MMORPGs, new and refreshing content is important. This is what keeps players in the game and brings about the entertainment that makes it worth staying day after day.

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ESTSoft is Preparing to Launch Cabal 2 Overseas

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ESTSoft is Preparing to Launch Cabal 2 Overseas


A korean website [khgames.co.kr] made an interview with a lead Cabal developer, who talked about the first episodes success and the expanding plans of the sequel, Cabal 2. It was confirmed that the company is preparing to launch Cabal 2 overseas, and they are making big efforts to succeed abroad.

Legend Of The Condor Heroes: ZERO "New Ji Ying Class" Preview

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Legend Of The Condor Heroes: ZERO


The new class revealed for Perfect World's(CN) upcoming non-target Action MMORPG. Ji Ying is a class with stealth skills and fast melee attacks.It is by far the class with the fastest combat in the game.

Rival Knights: How to Get More Social Seals and Royal Seals

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Rival Knights: How to Get More Social Seals and Royal Seals


Gameloft has just released Rival Knights, and it brings the old medieval practice of jousting onto the iPhone, iPad and Android in great detail, with it being obvious that a lot of money was spent on this game. Royal seals are the primary form of "energy" when it comes to the main stages, while social seals are used to battle against other players in the various events. Read on for some tips on how to get more of both of these!

Tree of Savior New Q&A ( Pets & Mounts )

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Tree of Savior New Q&A ( Pets & Mounts )


Hello TOS and RO fans, we had no news about "Tree of Savior" because of the Korean Holidays. This Q&A was mainly focused on : xp system, monster respawn, loot system, mounts and pets.



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General Gaming Article


PNY Catches SSD Bait-and-Switch Bug

Posted: 15 Jun 2014 07:15 PM PDT

PNY Optima 240GB SSD

SSD controller in some retails units of company's Optima drives found to be different from advertised part

Solid-state drive (SSD) vendors have a new trick up their sleeves: bait and switch. Earlier this year, Kingston quietly replaced the synchronous NAND originally found in its V300 SSD with slower, less expensive asynchronous NAND, and now PNY has been caught doing something similar.

According to our friends over at Tweaktown, one of the site's loyal readers wrote in to apprise them of the fact that a 240GB PNY Optima SSD, bought by him following the site's thumping endorsement of the said product, had a different controller than their review unit.

"When I received it, I noticed that it had a SandForce-style firmware revision, '541ABBF0'. The firmware version on the printed label read '5.4.1' (not the "N0307A" in the picture from your review), and the 5.6.0 firmware update on PNY's website (which I successfully applied) used the standard SandForce flasher. There does not appear to be a SMI firmware update (or any acknowledgement that such a variant exists) on PNY's website," the unnamed reader told the site that had given the 240GB Optima an overall rating of "95%" in an exhaustive ten-page review published in April.

When the site approached PNY for a response, the company quickly fessed up to shipping some Optima SSD units with LSI Sandforce controllers instead of the Silicon Motion (SMI) controllers found inside the review unit. And to exonerate itself of any wrongdoing, the company drew the site's attention to one particular sentence that can be found in the Optima's product description on some sites like Newegg: "The PNY Optima SSD line utilizes multiple qualified controllers to offer the best available solution to our customers."

Here's the rest of the reply: "Yes we did ship some Optima SSD's with SandForce controllers, but only if they meet the minimum advertised performance levels (in most of the benchmark tests, LSI controllers outperform SMI controllers). The readers assumption that PNY has abandoned SMI controllers is wrong as we have been shipping mostly SMI controllers, but also utilizing LSI to fill in the gaps."

It is difficult to gauge the effect of this silent controller switch on the drive's performance in absence of definitive benchmarks. However, we did find a couple of user-supplied benchmarks over at the AnandTech forums.

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MMO Updates


Rumor: Black Desert in 'final phase of negotiations' with NA, EU publisher

Posted: 15 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT

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You know how Massively sometimes posts about feature-packed Korean sandbox import Black Desert? And you know how there's always that one commenter who's all "why are you writing about this? We'll never get to play it!"

Well, that dude is apparently wrong.

Korean website Inven says that Pearl Abyss is in the "final phase of negotiations" with a North American and European publisher. A PA rep wouldn't divulge the company or companies involved when asked at this week's E3, but he did say that the publisher in question "should be familiar when mentioned," according to MMO Culture.

MassivelyRumor: Black Desert in 'final phase of negotiations' with NA, EU publisher originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One Shots: Fare game

Posted: 15 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

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We're starting to get a lot of WildStar submissions these days following the launch, which is something I certainly encourage (and where are you people with awesome Elder Scrolls Online pics, by the way?). Today we've got two for our player screenshot column, starting off with reader Darla and a very sour Chua.

"The cabbies in this game don't shut up and my Chua is having a tough time coping," Darla moans. Secretly, I think she loves the weird chatter coming from the driver, but Chua have a reputation to maintain, you know?

It's not just cabbies and expensive space fares after the break, but also pictures to vibrant that they will make your ocular cavities weep saline fluid!

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MassivelyOne Shots: Fare game originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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    The Daily Grind: Does your dad play video games?

    Posted: 15 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT

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    Back on May 11th, I asked Massively readers whether their moms played video games. See, it was Mother's Day (in the States), and it seemed an appropriate question. Well, here we are on Father's Day (again, in the States; don't panic, friends in distant lands!), and while it may not be terribly creative, I'm going to ask a variation on the same question.

    Does your dad play video games? If you're a dad, do you play games with your kids?

    Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!

    MassivelyThe Daily Grind: Does your dad play video games? originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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      E3 2014: PlanetSide 2 PS4 demo showcases visuals, performance

      Posted: 14 Jun 2014 06:00 PM PDT

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      While PlanetSide 2 has been out since the end of 2012 on the PC, it isn't due out on PlayStation 4 until later this year. At E3 2014, we got a hands-on demo of the game with lead game designer Luke Sigmund and executive producer Clint Worley to check out how the console version of the MMOFPS is coming along. And it's definitely coming along.

      Sigmund said that In order to get PS2 ready for release on the PS4, the team has been focusing a lot of attention on optimization and getting the controls feeling right. Currently, the team is doing daily playtests to get feedback on the look and feel of the builds. Sigmund emphasized, "The things we are focusing on for the PS4 are usability, new player experience, and optimization. For us, it's just a matter of getting it right. We don't want to put it out there and not be happy with the way it looks."

      So how does it look right now? Pretty darn good!

      Continue reading E3 2014: PlanetSide 2 PS4 demo showcases visuals, performance

      MassivelyE3 2014: PlanetSide 2 PS4 demo showcases visuals, performance originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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        Make My MMO: June 9 - June 14, 2014

        Posted: 14 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT

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        It was a rough week for crowdsourced hopefuls, as Shards Online, Origins of Malu, and The Black Watchmen failed to meet their funding goals. That last one is an ARG inspired by The Secret World, in case you're wondering.

        Despite the lack of Kickstarter success, rest assured that we haven't heard the last of indie sandboxes Shards and Malu. On a more positive note, Trials of Ascension revealed its plans for playable dragons, while Massively danced with crowdfund darlings Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen at this week's E3 convention in Los Angeles.

        Continue reading Make My MMO: June 9 - June 14, 2014

        MassivelyMake My MMO: June 9 - June 14, 2014 originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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          Tree of Savior Q&A highlights guilds, mounts, and parties

          Posted: 14 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

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          IMC Games' developer SY Kim has answered a slew of player questions about upcoming Korean character-driven fantasy MMO Tree of Savior. He begins by clarifying that while the studio has referred to the game as a "true successor" to the Ragnarok Online series, it is not an official sequel; the parent studios are unrelated. He also discusses party formation, cards and magical items, diminishing returns on experience gain from lowbie mobs, spear and poisoner classes, monster respawn, stat gain, and pets and mounts. A guild system, he relates, will not be in by closed beta.

          Read all the details on the official blog.

          [Thanks, tipster Yorai Dragon!]

          MassivelyTree of Savior Q&A highlights guilds, mounts, and parties originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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