Funcom announced that the next Beta Weekend for its upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’ will start this Friday on May 18th.
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Launching on 22th of May, Inferno aims to shake up all levels of warfare in the over 7,500 solar systems in EVE’s massive universe. Overhauls of major war-related game systems will affect player-driven conflict and the first set of many new ship modules to come promise to alter tactics at the most visceral levels.
Wargaming.net introduced today Heavy Fighters, the second of several rock-paper-scissors warplane classes that will take over the skies in the company’s highly anticipated flight combat MMO, World of Warplanes.
Yesterday, Bethesda announced via Gameinformer, that they are working on Elders Scrolls Online which is scheduled for release in 2013.
Notorious Games released this week the latest major patch to the MMORPG, Xsyon. This massive Update provides much balance to the game play of Xsyon and includes a full Stat and Skill revamp.
CCP CmdrWang, DUST 514 Community Manager talks about dynamic battlefield mechanics and why DUST 514 is completely different than the rest of the MMOFPS.
gamigo and Drago Entertainment will be sending the first players to survival training in the decimated world of Grimlands, starting today. This first step of beta testing will focus on technical details such as server stability, optimization of the network code and testing new features.
NCsoft and ArenaNet, the developers of Guild Wars 2 announced the first public Beta Weekend Event for Guild Wars 2 which will take place between take place between 27-29 April. Pre-Orders only.
According to the Berlin publisher, Frogster, the servers will be open from today, the 19th of April, at 15:00 CEST (2pm UK) until Tuesday, the 24th of April, at midnight CEST (11pm UK). During this time, all interested gamers can experience the intense combat action of TERA with their virtual character.
Update 1.8 takes Trion World’s first MMORPG to new levels with the inclusion of new and exciting content. As RIFT passes its one year anniversary and the Carnival of the Ascended comes to a close, players are brought straight back into the action with the inclusion of the all new 20-person raid: Infernal Dawn.
Wargaming.net unveils one of the three main classes of warbirds that will slice deadly skies, in the company’s highly anticipated World of Warplanes flight combat MMO.
En Masse released a detailed archive of the features ready at the launch of TERA, which is on 1st of May 2011. Staged invasions, public quests(thanks to Warhammer!), and economic system are detailed in the archive along with details about the game’s reputation system, dungeon rosters and some other goodies.
For those that still play SWTOR, a mediocre multiplayer game from Bioware, disguised as mmo, a huge content patch has been released for you. Details and comment box to flame me …
Hi-Rez Studios today announced the official release of Tribes: Ascend. The fast-paced, sci-fi multiplayer shooter has completed Beta testing and is now a live PC game available for digital download. Tribes: Ascend features jetpacks, skiing, vehicles, team-based gameplay, and cutting-edge graphics using Unreal 3 technology.
Aion is now launched as “Truly Free” World Wide (NA and EU). Since the truly free approach did very well for Lineage II, NC Soft released Aion with the same business plan. Truly Free brings no account restrictions and access to the latest updates.
Trion released new information regarding the End of Nations – Armory, where each commander can create custom companies and prepare them for battle.
The younger brother of EVE Online, Perpetuum, plans to add Player-Built Settlements (PBS) to his sandbox world to spice up the things a little, more likely with lots of wars, drama and lots of PvPew. A 10 people man team manages to build a interesting sandbox mmo, while 200 man teams are copying WOW mechanics and adding tons of cheesy voice overs and call it a day. Lovely times we live in.
Turn-based strategy game UFO Online: Fight for Earth will begin its second closed beta phase. The game’s developers, Funatics, have been using the time since the end of the very successful first test, during which the community provided lots of positive and constructive feedback, to create an improved, expanded and even nicer looking version.
I remember the huge potential of Warhammer Online and how much fun we had in the first months, then EA toke over. The END. Now is the time for Warhammer 40k to receive a blow, but not a finishing move.
Oh finally, Funcom remembered that 5 years ago they started the work to upgrade the engine for Anarchy Online. During the 5 years we didn’t heard much and the progress was slow but it seems they are back on track.
