Continent of the Ninth Seal: World Champions Crowned
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During last week's G-Star 2012 convention in Korea, Webzen crowned the first-ever Continent of the Ninth Seal (C9) PvP champions. The winning team scored $10,000 for its effort.
The tournament continued on the following day (Nov. 10) with the C9, WEBZEN’s award-winning and immensely popular action RPG. Team Korea survived several closely contested matches against the four other teams to claim the hotly contested C9 World Championship title along with a cash prize of $10,000. Various other...
Darkfall: Unholy Wars: Launch Date Delayed to December 12th
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The Darkfall blog has been updated with the news that the official launch date for Darkfall: Unholy Wars has been moved to December 12, 2012. The release was originally planned for November 20th.
We’re obviously not happy about this development, however we’re geared to make the best of the extra three weeks by further improving the release version of Darkfall Unholy Wars, while keeping the postponement of the launch as short as possible.
Read the full post on the Darkfall site.
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World of Warcraft: World Championships This Weekend
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World of Warcraft Arena teams will be going head-to-head this weekend in the World Championships to be held at the Shanghai Expo Mart in Shanghai, China. Over 10,000 fans are expected to see the event (including Starcraft championship matches) live with Blizzard making a six hour broadcast available to fans around the world.
Cohosted by Blizzard Entertainment and its local partner, NetEase, Inc., the Battle.net World Championship is the grand finale to Blizzard’s 2012 StarCraft II World Championship...
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Reasons to Check Out SWTOR F2P
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Star Wars: The Old Republic goes free-to-play beginning tomorrow and we've got a couple of reasons why we think you should check it out! Read on!
Sure, outside of the free-to-play stuff, Game Update 1.5 isn’t exactly meaty. However, 1.5 is significant in that it adds HK-51, a new companion clearly inspired by HK-47, everyone’s favorite mouthy assassin droid from the Knights of the Old Republic RPG series. HK-51 is acquired as part of the new ‘Section X’ content coming...
RaiderZ: Review In Progress – Part 2
Posted by MMORPG on Nov 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment
In the second in a series of articles leading up to our official review of RaiderZ, we take a look at more aspects of the game including combat and the dungeons found in the new MMO from Perfect World Entertainment. Have you played RaiderZ? Leave us your thoughts in the comments.
Combat will have you very involved, you will be dodging every attack, while trying to make your next move. It is something you will have to be tactical about, carefully watching each enemies different attacks and adapting...
The Secret World: The Gift, the Stage, and the Battlegrounds
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In our latest column devoted to The Secret World, we take a look at journalistic integrity when writing and some of the brand new features that will ship with the upcoming Issue #4. Check it out and then leave us your thoughts in the comments.
New details released make the Albion Theatre system a heavily player-driven mechanism. People will need to coordinate in-game to get a performance to work properly, whether they want to reenact scenes from movies or TV shows, or adapt Lovecraft for the gilded...
EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity Launches
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that the latest expansion to EverQuest II, Chains of Eternity, has officially launched. The expansion gives players new prestige abilities, a level cap increase, new dungeons and much more.
"EverQuest II continues to innovate and surprise players with immersive designs and epic storylines," said Holly Longdale, Producer, EverQuest II. "For Chains of Eternity, we created a rich story arc in which players of any play style would discover a side...
Guild Wars 2: High End Ascended Gear Revealed
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Linsey Murdock has written a new blog post on the Guild Wars 2 site that details some exciting news about new high end ascended gear for players. The post details how new gear progressions and 'challenging new game mechanics' will give high level players incentive to progress and reason to step carefully.
In the upcoming Fractals of the Mists dungeon, we’ll introduce a new monster condition called Agony.
This extremely dangerous condition ticks percentages of player health away and...
Wizard101: Azteca Goes Live
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KingsIsle has announced that the new Wizard101 world of Azteca has officially been deployed to the game servers. The new world is the second to hit Wizard101 this year and brings a dinosaurs into the game.
“In Azteca, Wizards will face challenges and consequences on a scale they’ve never encountered before in Wizard101,” said Todd Coleman, vice president and creative director at KingsIsle Entertainment. “While we’ve always known that the archvillain Morganthe is up...
Rift: Storm Legion Arrives
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Rift players will be happy to note that today marks the official launch of the Storm Legion expansion. The new content nearly triples the size of Telara and brings new souls and much more into the award-winning game.
MAKE TELARA YOUR OWN
• Dimensions: Customizable spaces allow players and guilds to own a sliver of Telara
• Take your professions to new heights with Grandmaster crafting
• Become the talk of the town and boost your stats with stylish new capes
• New puzzles,...
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