Posts tagged fourth-anniversary 
Warhammer Online celebrates fourth anniversary with rewards and bonuses
Belch forth a mighty "WAAAGH!" today, for Warhammer Online is now officially four years old. EA Mythic's dark fantasy title came on the scene in 2008 with a strong emphasis on PvP combat. To celebrate the occasion, Mythic announced that all players will enjoy 10 days of bonus XP and RP ...
Riding into Rohan: LotRO maps out 2012
In the words of Frank Sinatra, 2011 "was a very good year" for Lord of the Rings Online. Executive Producer Kate Paiz and Director of Communications Adam Mersky sat down with us to talk about the future of the game, but before they got to the juicy details, they wanted to give a quick recap of ...
Pirates of the Burning Sea outlines plans for 2012
Remember Pirates of the Burning Sea? Yeah, it's still sailing along after its 2010 free-to-play conversion, and the dev team at Flying Lab Software is gearing up to celebrate the game's fourth anniversary in high pirate style. Brain "Fodderboy" Taney has offered up a lengthy dev blog detailing ...
The Daily Grind: It's our 4th birthday and our wish is to hear your stories!
Today marks the 4th birthday of this wonderful website that you love so much, and we want to celebrate it by letting you discuss your favorite memories of Massively in today's Daily Grind. Normally we'd tell our own tales, or feature an article about our own experiences, but this time we want ...
The Road to Mordor: Four more years, four more years!
While four years is not a nice round number -- or even a halfway number like five -- it's a substantial milestone for any MMORPG. Debuting in early 2007, Lord of the Rings Online introduced something we'd never seen before: a fully realized 3-D virtual Middle-earth where we could not only enjoy a ...
Through Turbine's palantÃr: Developers outline LotRO's future
In J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, characters would use magical orbs known as palantírs to see and communicate with far away places. While Massively's own palantír is at the shop, we had access to the next best thing -- a one-on-two chat about Lord of the Rings Online's future ...
Vanguard's fourth anniversary raises new questions
Vanguard is somewhat of a unique beast among other "AAA" MMOs; it's a forgotten child that still offers great adventure, open-world excitement, and hardcore raiding. While we all have heard of the botched launch and practically dead-in-the-water development cycle of the game, the fact of the matter ...
EverQuest II anniversary celebrations much larger than SOE had planned
When are overcrowded servers and multiple crashes a good thing? Probably when you work for SOE and your game's fourth anniversary party has more people in attendance than you'd ever imagined. EverQuest II had its fourth anniversary last month, and the parties were a bit more epic than SOE had ...
City of Heroes marks its fourth anniversary
Four Years. Those two simple words are incredibly meaningful when it comes to the lifecycle of an MMO. Every year a game is live in production is another reason to celebrate, and City of Heroes has many reasons today as NCsoft marks the fourth anniversary of the game's launch. In honor of that ...
City of Heroes lead designer announces player-generated content system
In an announcement coinciding with the game's fourth anniversary, City of Heroes Lead Designer Matt Miller has announced a bold new feature. Coming in a future update, players will be able to craft their own missions, objectives, and story arcs. The system, which sounds very similar to Nevrax's ...
