Archive for November 2011
On 10 December the Spike VGAs will take place and Blizzard gamers are in for a treat as the full Diablo 3 cinematic will be debuted. At the awards three of the Blizzard founders Mike Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce will also be picking up the well-deserved Gamer God Award. This year, Spike TV [...]
Posted 30 November 2011 | Comments OffIt’s been a while since we saw something of Cryptic’s Free to play MMO Neverwinter but today they released a new trailer. This is a story trailer which does at least show the game engine and combat in action.
Posted 30 November 2011 | Comments Off
Hot off the press from Turbine are new screens for Lord of the Rings Update #5 in which players will aid Prince Théodred as he endeavors to keep the forces of Saruman from entering the Kingdom of Rohan.
Posted 30 November 2011 | Comments Off
The release date for the rather fancy illustrated Book of Cain for Diablo 3 has fairly shifted around since it was announced. Today Blizzard finally set a relase date for the book of December 13 which will keep keen Diablo 3 players happy over the holidays before the fame releases next year. Blizzard Entertainment and [...]
Posted 30 November 2011 | Comments OffStephen Read from Bioware posted a couple of tweets informing players that they should not uninstall the Beta client if they played over the weekend as they are planning to patch the Beta client for early game access. FAQ: if you played this weekend you do NOT need to uninstall the #SWTOR client. We are [...]
Posted 29 November 2011 | Comments Off
The long-awaited WoW v4.3 patch is finally going live as Blizzard prepare by taking the Battle.net site offine in the US. A full list of final patch notes have also been released so you know what to expect when things are live once again. Read on for the full notes…
Posted 29 November 2011 | Comments Off
PS3 players will have noticed the patch go live yesterday but PC and 360 gamers are still waiting for the update. According to the Bethesda blog, the patch is expected to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday 30 Novemeber) and includes: UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified) Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation [...]
Posted 29 November 2011 | Comments Off
The latest deveoper blog (#24) on the Star Trek Online website focuses on Season 5: Call to Arms. Executive Producer Stephen D’Angelo lists some of the new features and content players can expect including the Borg Invasion of Defera, Re-envisioned Borg Strategic Task Force (STF) maps, Lore Missions and more. There are also gameplay tweaks galore to Duty [...]
Posted 29 November 2011 | Comments OffSpeaking with Reuters at the Reuters media Summit, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotik has taken a subtle pop at EA and SWTOR in the latest rounds of taunts between the two industry giants. “Lucas is going to be the principal beneficiary of the success of Star Wars,” Kotick said. “We’ve been in business with Lucas [...]
Posted 29 November 2011 | Comments Off
The Beta weekend is now over and it’s been a positive experience for the majority of players. Queues were long on some servers but not as long as players may have thought base don the wait times indicated on the server listing. As the guys at TORWars point out, even though it stated a three [...]
Posted 28 November 2011 | Comments Off
The second part of Rockpapershotgun’s hands-on preview is now live and in this installment they talk to Marten Bruusgaard, lead designer of The Secret World, lead content designer Joel Bylos and the game’s writer/director, Ragnar Tørnquist about how the secret society game will differ from other MMOs. The article dicusses everything from the end-game to [...]
Posted 28 November 2011 | Comments Off
Nexon is the latest company to come under a hacking attack according to the Korean Herald. The leak affected 13.2 million Korean players but Nexon has stated that the breach has not affected overseas players. The breach was discovered on Thursday when user IDs, players’ names, passwords and residential registration numbers were stolen by the hackers. [...]
Posted 27 November 2011 | Comments OffIt’s amusing RPG video time and these two videos from Hunter have some pretty funny Skyrim death moment. The first video was posted a couple of days ago but he has now added a new second vid which takes the death tally to over 100. Some funny moments in these.
Posted 26 November 2011 | Comments OffThe latest MMOReport popped into a Guild Wars 2 voice recording session recently to catch up with some of the actors and Lead Writer Bobby Stein. Casey probes the actors about the characters they play the voice work which includes grunting and growling, an essential part of playing a Charr. Bobby also talks about the [...]
Posted 26 November 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve managed to drag myself away from the SWTOR Beta test and spotted that Bioware has released a new trailer this evening which covers the Jedi Consular character progression. The Jedi Consular is both a revered ally to the Republic and a dangerous adversary to the Empire. Their ability to revive fallen allies in combat [...]
Posted 26 November 2011 | Comments Off
