Actually, they revealed the system specs yesterday, not today.

Come on Massively, you need to pick up the ball a bit faster. It only takes a short time to go to all the main MMO's news sites and see what new info might be up online. Then take a couple more minutes to visit your competition to see if they have any special interviews you might want to news about.

Unless you bloggers are reporting the news fast and your editors are the ones approving them too slow. Whatever the reason, Massively often seems to be a bit slow on the uptake.


By the way, you are still missing the rest of the interesting news from yesterday:

Global Agenda closed beta bings July 24th

WoW insider has an article about the future of WoW from Ton Chilton


AND today, we have a few interesting news bits I have run across:

Tobold's website has a good read about Game Design and Business Models at tobolds -dot- blogspot -dot- com.

Oh Tobold is also claiming that WoW is down to 5 million subscribers due to the fact that the Chinese servers have been down for a month and not coming back online anytime soon - with more loss to WoW pride than their wallet.

In other Champions Online news, Pamela Blalock muses over at MMOSITE that Champions might be a FtP game, but also considers that the small discussions on pricing from Cryptic might mean a subscription game with additional "boosts" that you can buy (booster pack?). Not much sources out there to investigate, but I appreciate a blogger who tries to be more of an investigative journalist. It would have been better if she had taken the time to call Cryptic to try and get an interview on the pricing model.


I know these are just blog sites, but come on. Pretend to be a real news site! Do some fact digging! Almost all the developers of these games are now using twitter - and they actually slip and reveal things if you pay attention. I found out that the Logitec G19 keyboard's ship date and the fact that it was exclusive through Dell for the first 30 days in the US markets from a slipped tweet - weeks before they wanted to announce it.

Just saying. You know I like Massively.com, I post here all the time. But I would like to see this site the one everyone checks first because it has all the best and most current news.

Where the hell is the interviews about Jumpgate and the nitty gritty reasons there has been a delay. Get them on the phone and try and figure out a release date. Make a scoop! Don't wait for the news to come to you, find the news before it hits the developer's website!