Archive for 2011
Being an MMO, the game never really ends so adding a score for Star Wars: The Old Republic is no easy task. Tim over on the main IncGamers site has put together his review of the game based on the early levels and as usual it’s cracking read worthy of your attention. Here’s a snip: [...]
Posted 31 December 2011 | Comments Off
Bioware has posted the v1.0.2 Public Test Server patch notes for SWTOR and thankfully they are not massive with some general big fixes on missions, UI, Combat and miscellaneous bits and pieces. Check the full notes list after the break because these are what will likely be hitting the live servers.
Posted 31 December 2011 | Comments OffIf you’re gaming tonight at midnight then you may want to be in Azeroth to catch the celebrations. Events kick off in WoW at 6:00 a.m. Realm-Time December 31. Merry New Year! The celebration begins at 6:00 a.m. Realm-Time December 31 with fireworks in the skies above the cities, and repeats every hour on the hour. [...]
Posted 31 December 2011 | Comments OffYou occassionally get to see some of the bloopers in the MMOReport at the end of the show but in this week’s final show of the year Casey and the team pick out some of the more amusing moments from the past year.
Posted 31 December 2011 | Comments OffSWTOR Review on ScienceFiction.com GameBanshee Reviews Skyrim MechWarrior Online interview on 3 Moves Ahead Podcast BioWare’s Daniel Erickson on the moral decision’s of characters in SWTOR.
Posted 31 December 2011 | Comments OffNo doubt you are all still in couch potato mode this week and it’s been rather slow on the important MMO/RPG news front, but there are a few bits and pieces that have popped up if you need something to read. Diablo3Markets Explains Gold Supply & Demand How Bioware wrote SWTOR on PCGamer SWTOR points [...]
Posted 29 December 2011 | Comments OffBioware’s head CM Stephen Reid hit Reddit for an ask him anything session and the full list of questions and answers can now be viewed in this Reddit thread. There are some decent questions which are mingled in with some pointless questions, but what do you expect? You can ask anything.
Posted 29 December 2011 | Comments Off
An interview with the Guild Wars Live team has been posted on our sister site GWOnline.Net. This is the first part of an interview in which the dev team discuss the content that was added to the original game and the development process behind it. Watch out for the second part shortly.
Posted 28 December 2011 | Comments Off
The festive season always brings treats to Azeroth and players can snag a Gaudy Winter Veil Sweater in Orgrimmar for Horde and Ironforge for Alliance. You’ll need to get your hands on them before 2 January while the celebrations continue.
Posted 28 December 2011 | Comments OffA press release from EA brings more stats for the The Old Repunlic which are an increase on the numbers I posted a couple of days ago touting it as “ fastest-growing subscription MMO in history”. So far we have… Over 60 million in-game hours – roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies over [...]
Posted 28 December 2011 | Comments OffI hope you have been keeping an eye on the IncGamers’ Top 25 Games of 2011 since the start of the month and also picked up some prizes along the way. Today is the big day, the #1 game will be revealed and you can also catch up on the previous 24 right here. Agree or [...]
Posted 25 December 2011 | Comments OffThe big day has arrived so I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday! Take some time out, fire up your favourite RPG and enjoy the time off. I’ll be back with all the latest RPG news shortly
Posted 25 December 2011 | Comments Off
As we head into Christmas Day, over the past 24 hours there have been a few updates from the Bioware team including some facts and figures on player number so far. It is way too early to predict how many subscrivers will stay in the game, we’ll have to wait until the end of January [...]
Posted 24 December 2011 | Comments OffThe guys at GWOnline.Net are running a competition to win double packs of the very cool looking Wintersday costumes which recently went live as part of the holiday celebrations. There are four double packs up for grabs running in two competitions, a comment post draw and a Twitter draw. If you fancy looking the part [...]
Posted 23 December 2011 | Comments Off
Some good news for EVE players who want to take part in the Dust 514 Beta, the PS3 multiplayer shooter. I know it’s not RPG news but obviously EVE players will want to take advantage of this if they can. Nice to see CCP prioritising their subscribing community, something Blizzard failed to do with the [...]
Posted 23 December 2011 | Comments Off
