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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Artix Entertainment acquires EpicDuel, starts test of master account system]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/05/artix-entertainment-acquires-epicduel-starts-test-of-master-acc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/05/artix-entertainment-acquires-epicduel-starts-test-of-master-acc/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/05/artix-entertainment-acquires-epicduel-starts-test-of-master-acc/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO industry</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/legal/" rel="tag">Legal</a></p><a href="http://www.epicduel.com/"><img hspace="4" border="1" align="right" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2009/12/epicduelartixacquire.jpg" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/artix-entertainment">Artix Entertainment</a> (soon to be Battle On Games), the team behind the easily addicting <a href="http://www.battleon.com"><em>AdventureQuest</em></a> series of games and the <a href="http://www.aq.com"><em>AQ Worlds</em></a> flash MMO, has recently announced their acquisition of another flash-based pseudo-MMO -- <a href="http://www.epicduel.com/"><em>EpicDuel</em></a>.<br />
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The <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/epicduel"><em>EpicDuel</em></a> team has been completely integrated into the Artix Entertainment staff, keeping them in charge of their own game while still allowing them the expanded resources and technology that drives the Artix Entertainment products. To celebrate, <em>EpicDuel</em> is getting a complete overhaul, including adding hips (which was a whopping 3,500 frames of animation changes alone), a new player housing system, changes to the battle system, and more.<br />
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All of this comes with the new test of the Artix master account system, which will unify accounts across all Artix Entertainment games with a master login. This will, of course, include <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/aq-worlds"><em>AdventureQuest Worlds</em></a>, our specific title of interest here on Massively.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/05/artix-entertainment-acquires-epicduel-starts-test-of-master-acc/">Artix Entertainment acquires EpicDuel, starts test of master account system</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.epicduel.com/>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/05/artix-entertainment-acquires-epicduel-starts-test-of-master-acc/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19266164/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/05/artix-entertainment-acquires-epicduel-starts-test-of-master-acc/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>acquisition</category><category>adventurequest</category><category>aq-worlds</category><category>artix</category><category>artix-entertainment</category><category>battle-on-games</category><category>battlefield-bad-company</category><category>epicduel</category><category>legal</category><category>merger</category><category>update</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Seraphina Brennan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
