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| News: World of Warcraft Launch Date: Nov. 23, 2004 | Pretty close to what sources have indicated, WoW is coming and its coming soon.
From the community site :
" Blizzard is pleased to announce that in fewer than three weeks, World of Warcraft will begin hitting store shelves throughout North America. Starting on November 23, players will be able to pick up a boxed copy of the game, or the collector's edition, and finally begin playing! See the press release for further details."
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| News: Matrix Online Fileplanet Subscriber Beta | From Fileplanet :
"Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Sega and FilePlanet is offering 20,000 The Matrix Online keys to access the Beta. Subscribers will get the chance to play as a FilePlanet exclusive in The Matrix Online Beta. Every week on Tuesday we'll be releasing 5,000 authentication keys to subscribers only on a first come, first served basis over the span of a month. Once the keys run out for each week, you'll need to check back the following Tuesday to attempt access... |  | |
| News: Raid Groups Designer Diary | | "Raids have been a staple of high-end gameplay in massively multiplayer online RPGs for years. It will be no different for World of Warcraft, where the designers have plans for some incredibly challenging and rewarding raid content for players that approach or hit the maximum level cap of 60. Designer Jeffrey Kaplan, who designed hundreds of quests and is now heading up the world and raid design, shared his thoughts on designing and implementing raids, how non-instanced raids will benefit the en... | | |
| News: WoW Naming Policy | Read and plan ahead :
"This may hold true for roses, but there's nothing you can do to make an Orc smell good, so you might as well give yours a good name. One of the first adventures you will embark upon within World of Warcraft will be that of choosing a character name. While your subsequent exploits should prove infinitely more exhilarating, great care should be given to name selection. The first impression other players have of you will be based on your name, so it's best to s... | | |
| News: Earth & Beyond Service Closed | Earth and beyond has now closed all servers.
From the official website:
"Earth & Beyond is no longer in service. After an amazing two years of galactic adventure, Electronic Arts has made the decision to close Earth & Beyond in order to focus resources on future games.
We hope you've enjoyed the game as much as we have and we'll see you again in another great EA game!
Thank you,
The Earth & Beyond Team" |  | |
| News: The Matrix Online to Launch January 2005 | A snippet from the press release:
"SEGA of America, Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced that the release date of The Matrix Online, the massively multi-player online game, will be January 18, 2005. Originally slated for a November ship date, the January release will allow the co-publishers to implement plans to launch the game simultaneously in Europe." | | |
| News: Class restrictions removed | From the Shadowbane US website.
"Effective as of September 10, 2004, all of the Races in Shadowbane will be available to all subscribers, regardless of how long they have had their subscription. Please note that the Minotaur, Aracoix and Centaur races will NOT be available to 15-Day Free Trial customers. Furthermore, this does not include the Nephilim that comes with the purchase of The Rise of Chaos Expansion Pack nor Races associated with future Expansions." |  | |
| News: Fansite friday #15 | | Slightly old yet interesting is the 15th fansite article. Game masters , item distribution and specialized skills are among the topics. |  | |
| News: New Ryzom Site Live | Nevrax has remade the website for the newly released The Saga of Ryzom.
Fresh web for you >> |  | |
| News: WoW PvP Details | The moment we all (atleast me) have been waiting for is here. The WoW PvP system. It looks pretty much like a boosted Daoc PvP system.
If it all holds true, this may be the next PvP game. | | |
| News: Catacombs Website Launched | The website for the upcoming expansion to Daoc has seen the light of day. I
nfo about Albions new class the Zealot and one of Midgards, the Warlock is available. |  | |
| News: Star Trek Goes MMORPG | Perpetual Entertainment will be producing a Star Trek MMORPG.
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| News: WoW EU Closed Beta soon | No need to destroy that F5 key just yet. According to the European WoW site, the Beta will start sometime later this month.
E-mails will be sent out a few days before the actual Server comes up.
Hope and pray > | | |
| News: Dragon Empires Cancelled | After years of newsletter sendouts, Codemasters has decided to discontinue their development of Dragon Empires.
Read more about this unfortunate decision here >
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| News: D&D Gamespy Preview | Gamespy has gotten their hands on an early version of Dungeons & Dragons Online. Get their first impressions!
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| News: 15 Days Return To Shadowbane Program | With the patch 3.0 released, Ubi is opening all former accounts in good standing for 15 days. Totally free of charge and commitments this is a good way to try out a game that has improved a lot since the release.
The program will start on Aug 6th. | | |
| News: WoW Q&A | | Block, the new community manager over at Blizzard has gathered a bunch of questions and answers in a forum post. Some of it has been seen in previous Q&A's but it's definitely worth checking out anyway. | | |
| News: 42 new PvP Pictures | | Taken from players themselves, go have a look. | | |
| News: Spider fight! | The developers of Mourning has released two short clips, showing off some combat vs a nasty spider.
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| News: Ryzom Open Beta Weekend | | Another weekend open beta of Ryzom. If you have played before you can simply update the client and play. If you are new, go to this page and create an account and download the client. | | |
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