Lord of the Rings Online: Update 6 Screens
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Turbine and the Lord of the Rings Online team have released a big batch of new screenshots from Update 6: Shores of the Great River. The new screens show off LOTRO’s new Soldier on Landscape feature which allows players to summon a skirmish companion in the field. It also allows players to customize the skirmish soldier to help players to take on every challenge.
Check out all of the new screens in our Lord of the Rings Online screenshot gallery.
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Lord of the Rings Online: Instance Finder Being Refined
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A new developer diary has appeared on the Lord of the Rings Online site that details some refinements to the Instance Finder being implemented in Update 6. Originally introduced in Update 5, Leo "Ransroth" Zelevinsky lays out exactly what changes are incoming.
The update will include an 'advanced' tab that will give players a lot of flexibility when choosing exactly what instance they are looking to join and in what capacity they want to join. In addition, players can search for...
Dragon Born Online: Closed Beta to Launch in March
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KoramGames has announced that its action-MMO, Dragon Born, will officially launch into its closed beta phase of development sometime in March. In preparation, the team has released new information about Dragon Born.
Class specific mounts will have the ability to be altered over time as the mount 'matures'. Alterations include both practical and physical changes. Players will be able to engage in mounted combat.
The inclusion of hundreds of class armor items to mix and match for the...
Final Fantasy XIV: Cutter’s Cry Raid Trailer
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Square Enix and the Final Fantasy XIV team have released a new trailer featuring the Cutter's Cry instanced raid that will arrive in game with the v1.21 patch. The trailer features game play straight out of Cutter's Cry. Enjoy!
Cutter's Cry is an extremely challenging instanced raid meant for full parties of eight adventurers, consisting of Disciples of War and Magic at level 45 or higher. In the caverns await many dangers?fearsome monsters, of course, but also rivers of quicksand and...
World of Warcraft: Scroll of Resurrection Campaign Begins
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Blizzard and the World of Warcraft team have a new program to entice former players to check back into the game. Current players are gifted a "Scroll of Resurrection" to cast on a former player. The caster can choose either a Spectral Griffon or Wind Rider as a reward and the resurrected player gets a nice package to entice them back into World of Warcraft.
One character is instantly leveled to 80
Account is automatically upgraded to Cataclysm
A free character move to the friend's...
Requiem: Bloodymare: Korean Players Join the Fray
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WarpPortal has announced that it is now providing service for Korean players of Requiem. To celebrate the occasion, the dev team has put together a nice package of events and XP boosts.
A 3 week +30% exp bonus for all!
Green rice cake & blue rice cake global drop event for all players.
1,000 free points giveaway.
Premium package benefit that includes an additional +50% exp boost, +30% item drop rate, -50% death penalty, and access to the premium dungeons.
Chance maker event for...
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Features Preview & New Friends Program
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During the recent Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Summit, Bioware released a new trailer shining the spotlight on several big changes coming to the game with Update 1.2. In addition, Bioware laid out the details on the new "Friends of Star Wars" program that was rolled out earlier this week.
The trailer shows off the new “Explosive Conflict” Operation, the new "Lost Island" Flashpoint and the new "Novare Coast" Warzone. The video also gives a quick and...
PlanetSide 2: GDC 2012 – Exclusive Interview
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During GDC 2012, we managed to not only get hands on time with Planetside 2, but we also got to sit down with the game's senior art director, Tramell Ray Isaac to talk about SOE's big plans for this sequel.
PlanetSide 2 made its public gameplay debut at this year's Games Developers Conference in San Francisco and we were on hand to check it out. Not too long after the demo, we sat down with Tramell Ray Isaac, senior art director on PlanetSide 2, to discuss the game and some of what...
PlanetSide 2: First Look Preview
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Our lads at GDC 2012 this year were treated to the first ever look at a dev-driven demo of SOE's upcoming MMOFPS, Planetside 2. Does the game look like it has what it takes to make PS2 a household name? Find out!
"Massive" is the first word that popped into my mind when we were shown PlanetSide 2 at Sony Online Entertainment's special preview event at Game Developer's Conference 2012. SOE has been particularly mum about their upcoming MMOFPS, and we were unquestionably...
Path of Exile: Ripper X Walks the Path of Exile
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This week in our first impressions video series, Ripper X steps bravely into the Path of Exile, a completely free-to-play online Action RPG in the vein of Diablo and Torchlight.Â
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO OF RIPPER X IN PATH OF EXILE.
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