Blizzard: New MMO In Development

In a recent interview with wired.com Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime hinted to a new MMO in development. No, it’s not another WoW, rather “It’s gonna be different”. He says:

We’re not trying to replace World of Warcraft with this new MMO. We’re trying to create a different massively multiplayer experience, and hopefully World of Warcraft will still be going strong when that one is released.

Perhaps a new franchise?

Age of Conan Rides the Steam Train!

Everyone’s favorite (?) and hugely successful MMO, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has boarded the Steam train. The MMORPG is now available via Valve’s brilliant content delivery system, packing a steep price. Read more

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Goes GOLD!

The long awaited RPG has finally reached Gold status! The product has been completed and shipped to DVD replicating plants to get it ready for retail shelves. Read more

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures - DirectX10 Screenshots

Funcom has released some DirectX10 and DX10 vs DX9 comparison screenshots for Age of Conan. Check them out below, though the level of detail isn’t anything spectacular.

• DirectX 9
• DirectX 10

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning BETA on September 7th

Press Release:

Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced that the open beta for their highly anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR), will begin on September 7th, 2008. This means that hundreds of thousands of fans will be able to enter the gritty fantasy world of WAR to experience the thrill of Realm vs. Realm™ (RvR) combat before the game goes live on September 18th, 2008. Players can get into the North American open beta by pre-ordering WAR or visiting IGN’s popular game download site FilePlanet.com to sign up for a limited number of spots. Read more

Age of Conan DirectX10 Features To Be Revealed at GC

The delayed DirectX 10 launch of Age of Conan will be shown at this year’s GC, behind closed doors:

Press Release:

Conan is invading this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. Funcom and Eidos invites everyone to come join the festivities at his majesty’s outpost located at stand B10 in Hall 5. Behind the tall walls of the King’s fortress press and gamers alike can play the game, meet and chat with the developers, collect amazing give-aways and observe live stage shows where Funcom will reveal and demonstrate brand new and never-before-seen locations, content and features that will be put into the recently launched massively multiplayer online game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ in the months ahead. Read more

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures drops support for DirectX10

The upcoming MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, has reportedly dropped the DirectX10 renderer for launch. Funcom says the DirectX10 version has been pushed back to add more polish & features. “worthy of Microsoft’s great vision for the future of PC gaming”.

The DirectX10 version will make it’s debut in August 2008 in Games Convention. A preview will be shown in nVIDIA’s nVISION event on August 27-28, 2008.

Empire of Sports - Private Launch Party

Empire of Sports, the new revolutionary sport-based MMORPG, is celebrating the first week of its private launch, with a wallpaper competition!
The theme is “Multisports”. You have until the 8th of April to demonstrate your creativity to the maximum.

The best wallpapers will be submitted to forum members over the course of 5 days, members will then vote for their favourite.

You must be a game account holder to enter, and if you win, your account will be credited with 5.000 Ecu!

You may submit as many wallpaper creations as you like.

Good luck!

Details of the competition can be found here: http://www.empireofsports.com/no_cache/en/news/news/news/index.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=247&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=73

For more information about the game please visit: http://www.empireofsports.com/

Bluehole Licenses Unreal Engine 3

Bluehole Studio Inc. announced today that it has licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 for its next-generation, flagship massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for PC, codenamed Project S1. Founded in March 2007, Bluehole boasts an accomplished development team comprised of key members from some of the leading development and management teams in Korea.

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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Delayed

EA’s upcoming MMORPG based on popular Warhammer games has been pushed back yet again. According to Producer Jeff Hickman, the game won’t be available until Autumn.

Thanks, Eurogamer.net 

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