Archives for Sep 10th, 2012
Secret World's lead designer 'not with Funcom anymore'
Funcom's recent reorganization reached higher up the developer food chain than we initially expected. Earlier today former Secret World lead designer Martin Bruusgaard informed Twitter followers that he was let go from the company last week. The good news is that Bruusgaard has already found work...
Not So Massively: Diablo III world-first level 100 and PAX wrap-up videos
The League of Legends North American regional tournament concluded this week with Team Solo Mid, Team Dignitas, and Counter Logic Gaming securing spots in October's World Championship games. Riot Games also revealed its new livestream portal this week; it supports popular livestreamers with news ...
Fallen Earth unveils new weapons and bosses in time for its third anniversary [Updated]
Anniversary gifts require careful thought, but Fallen Earth seems to know just what its players want. So patch 2.5 adds three powerful new weapons for players to use across the wastelands as well as three new bosses that carry required components for those weapons. It's not really the traditional...
The War Z allows cash shop items to be lost forever
Imagine that you're playing the hot new zombie MMO, and you decide to splurge a few bucks on that shiny weapon you've been eying. You get your grubby mitts on it and go to town on a few living undead, only to find yourself over your head and quickly killed. When you wake up, your gun -- and the r...
Leaderboard: Fight for City of Heroes or let it go
You may have heard of this little kerfuffle involving NCsoft summarily shutting down City of Heroes and axing Paragon Studios, as well as a massive player movement to save the title. It's... been mentioned. Some people see it as a David vs. Goliath story, with NCsoft taking the role of the giant ...
SWTOR's 1.4 patch live on public test server today
Last week BioWare gave us a sneak preview of Star Wars: The Old Republic's 1.4 update via a lengthy dev blog. This week we get to try out the patch proper on the game's public test server. The 1.4 update features the new Terror from Beyond operation as well as new weapons and armor, group find...
ArenaNet resumes digital sales of Guild Wars 2
A little over a week ago, ArenaNet brought a temporary halt to first-party digital sales of Guild Wars 2. At the time, the message was this: "Ensuring the best possible play experience for our fans is our highest priority. We've said before that we would be willing to temporarily disable first-...
Mists of Pandaria TV ads spotted in the wild
It's hard to escape the long arm of Blizzard's Mists of Pandaria marketing campaign these days. World of Warcraft's newest expansion is making its way to your television set via a couple of new ad spots. The clips are composed of footage from MoP's opening cinematic, which features a kung-fu p...
Guild Wars 2 launch trailer released
Roughly two weeks after the game itself, Guild Wars 2's launch trailer has, well, launched. A couple of teaser images in mid-August and a series of incredibly portentous quotes beginning late Sunday evening clued fans into the fact that something was afoot, and the video has just gone live. Th...
PAX Prime 2012: Marvel Heroes video interview touches on costumes, public combat zones
In a video interview at PAX Prime, Associate Producer Matt Group discussed different aspects of the upcoming superhero MMORPG Marvel Heroes. Some of the topics he touched on include rotating between characters, public combat zones, multiple costumes, the free-to-play philosophy, and the fact that...
Captain's Log: Star Trek Online's Daniel Stahl's Q&A at Raptr
The past week was met with such interesting Star Trek Online news that I'm postponing my advice series: STO launched a formal affiliation with gaming social media site Raptr, and Cryptic Studios' Executive Producer Daniel Stahl spent a majority of the day answering questions posed to him in the s...
The Secret World's Digging Deeper update delayed until Wednesday
Fans looking forward to the already delayed issue #2 in The Secret World will have to wait an extra day. Funcom just tweeted that Digging Deeper will be deployed on live servers on Wednesday, September 12th, instead of the 11th. The extra day is meant to ensure that everything is working as inten...
Mega Man MMO might be canned
With dozens of games and collections, Mega Man has had quite the prolific run as a console game, and NeoWiz has been working on turning Mega Man into a MMORPG called Rockman Online (after the Japanese name for Mega Man). However, although there is no official word it appears that the project ma...
Wings Over Atreia: A rant against xenophobia in Aion
You know one of the great things about a weekly opinion piece? The ability to about-face and change topics when inspiration strikes... or you just can't bite your tongue any longer. And I am going to exercise that right right now: I'm diverging a bit from my intended thoughts about more of Aion's...
Champions Online Exclusive: Rock out with Sapphire!
With Champions Online reaching its third anniversary this month, the team at Cryptic Studios is pulling out all the stops to make it one for the scrapbooks (because superheroes totally scrapbook and don't let anyone tell you differently). Starting next week, players can enjoy rewards such as l...
MV Guide: September 10 - 16, 2012
MV Guide is a weekly rundown of the MMO gaming events planned on Massively TV. Every week, the Massively Stream Team logs in to play various MMOs live and in person, and we'd love for you to drop by the channel and visit. We have a combination of regular weekly games and new surprises each wee...
The Daily Grind: Would you still play if you had to start over?
In their struggle to save their game from sunset in November, City of Heroes fans are faced with a dilemma: What if their heroic measures work but only halfway? What if they manage to save the game but not the team and the game stays on life support? Or what if they save the game and the team but...
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