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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Ys Online soundtrack now free download]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/30/ys-online-soundtrack-now-free-download/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/30/ys-online-soundtrack-now-free-download/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/30/ys-online-soundtrack-now-free-download/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/betas/" rel="tag">Betas</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/new-titles/" rel="tag">New titles</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/ys-online/" rel="tag">Ys Online</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ysonline.com"><img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" align="middle" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2009/09/ysonlinegrabat580.jpg" alt="" /></a></div>
If you're anything like some of us at Massively, the music in your games really adds something to the experience. While <em>Ys Online</em> may not snag the headlines here very much, it's an MMO based off of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_(series)">series of Japanese RPGs </a>that reaches back into the 1980s. The Ys IP has also been spun off into <a href="http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?type.web=1&amp;type.unknown=1&amp;type.tvspecial=1&amp;type.tvseries=1&amp;type.ova=1&amp;type.other=1&amp;type.musicvideo=1&amp;type.movie=1&amp;show=animelist&amp;orderby.name=0.1&amp;noalias=0&amp;do.search=search&amp;adb.search=Ys&amp;char=y">two anime series</a> produced in the late 80's and early 90s. <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/ys-online"><em>Ys Online</em></a> is still in <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/07/01/ys-online-heads-into-open-beta/">open beta in Europe</a>, but they're already making the game's soundtrack available for free download. You can preview the tracks on the <em>Ys Online</em> Europe site and download each track individually, or just grab the whole soundtrack as a zip file. <br />
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The <em>Ys Online</em> soundtrack is composed by the same people <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Koshiro">behind the score</a> of the various Ys titles in the past -- <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/yuzo-koshiro">Yuzo Koshiro</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieko_Ishikawa">Mieko Ishikawa</a> and Hideya Nagata.<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/2009/09/30/ys-online-soundtrack-now-free-download/">Ys Online soundtrack now free download</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:00:00 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.ysonline.com/official_sounds>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/30/ys-online-soundtrack-now-free-download/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19178170/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/30/ys-online-soundtrack-now-free-download/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>audio</category><category>call-of-solum</category><category>composers</category><category>compositions</category><category>downloads</category><category>fantasy</category><category>free</category><category>hideya-nagata</category><category>mieko-ishikawa</category><category>music</category><category>open-beta</category><category>score</category><category>soundtrack</category><category>ys</category><category>ys-online</category><category>yuzo-koshiro</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[James Egan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ys to return in MMO form]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/01/14/ys-to-return-in-mmo-form/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/01/14/ys-to-return-in-mmo-form/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/01/14/ys-to-return-in-mmo-form/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/betas/" rel="tag">Betas</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/business-models/" rel="tag">Business models</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO industry</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/new-titles/" rel="tag">New titles</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></p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/61zBkJZ0_DM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/61zBkJZ0_DM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center>According to <a href="http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9601-ys-goes-mmo">a press release picked up on Neoseeker</a>, there's a brand new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys_(video_game)"><em>Ys</em></a> game on the way -- and we're not talking about <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/23/atlus-eyes-ys-for-ds/">the Nintendo DS remake</a> that is coming out next month. In a move that we can't help but compare to the evolution of the <em>Final Fantasy</em> series and <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/final-fantasy-xi/"><em>FFXI</em></a>, an upcoming <em>Ys</em>' title will stray from series' classic JRPG roots into the MMO world. The full name for the game looks to be <a href="http://www.ysonline.com/"><em>Ys Online: Call of Solum</em></a> at this time. The embedded Youtube video was posted back in May of last year so there's probably a lot more information already out there in Japanese, but this is really the first we've heard of it.<br /><br />From what Neoseeker translated of the press release, <em>Ys Online</em> is going to be free-to-play, and will be published by Key To Play and developed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcom">Nihon Falcom</a>, the creators of the original <em>Ys</em> games. Nihon Falcom has been in the business of making games for over two decades, but as far as we know, this will be their first crack at an MMO. We should be able to see how it's coming along shortly with a closed beta that is scheduled to begin this month -- we'll be keeping an eye on <a href="http://www.ysonline.com/">the game's website</a> for sign-up information.<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/2009/01/14/ys-to-return-in-mmo-form/">Ys to return in MMO form</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:00:00 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.neoseeker.com/news/9601-ys-goes-mmo>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/01/14/ys-to-return-in-mmo-form/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1428774/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/01/14/ys-to-return-in-mmo-form/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>call-of-solum</category><category>f2p</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>key-to-play</category><category>nihon-falcom</category><category>ys</category><category>ys-online</category><category>ys-online-call-of-solum</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Dobson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
