KOTOR 3 MMO In-development

Everyone wants a piece of the MMO pie. Afterall, nowadays, it’s the most profitable genre on PCs. If everyone else is doing it, why must EA be left behind? BioWare is now developing a KOTOR (Knights of the Old Republic) MMO. yay.

We’ve got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development,” said Riccitiello. The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. “And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about — in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it.

Does Riccitiello mean the oft rumored Knights of the Old Republic Online?  “Yes,” he said.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures 400,000 copies sold

 

Funcom’s much hyped and anticipated MMORPGs has became one of the fastest selling PC titles of all of time — with 400,000 copies sold in the last few days. Full PR below:

Press Release:

Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400.000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from the North American market. This amazing figure for a PC game shows that the positive pre-order trend has transferred into actual sales, and people from all over the world are now flocking to the most savage, sexy and brutal MMO ever created. Read more

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Goes Gold

After four years of development co-publishers Funcom and Eidos are proud to announce that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has gone gold. One of the most highly anticipated MMO games in history is about to hit the store shelves, and the gates to the world of the mighty barbarian will soon be open to the millions of gamers around the world.

“Even though it feels like this great adventure is coming to an end, it’s really not at all. The launch is just the beginning” says Game Director/Producer Gaute Godager. “I believe we have created a game that will stand the test of time by its own accord, but we are already busy planning future features and expansions. We want to continue expanding Conan’s world for many years to come, and we have great ideas on what to do!” Read more

Valve: “NPD Group is to blame”

Recently, “PC Gaming is dying” has been a hot topic across many, many forums. This argument was originally sparked when Crysis was released; Crysis was critcised heavily for being overly resource intensive and alienating a large player base by demanding a powerful PC to run on. Hence most people assumed PC gaming had peaked and it was time for it to go downhill… If that wasn’t bad enough, recent NPD sales charts showing poor sales have added fuel to the fire. If that wasn’t bad enough, developers have starting blaming piracy and statements like “Trying to make a game for PC is a freaking nightmare” certainly don’t help. Valve’s Dough Lombardi sat down with GamaSutra to for a QnA session discuss all these matters. Here’s a snippet from the interview:

Lombardi blames the retail-heavy NPD report for the anxiety wave. “That totally ignores the money changing hands, and properties like World of Warcraft with their monthly subscriptions. That totally ignores Steam sales, and any other MMOs and online distribution systems and a host of others… it also ignores things like PopCap games. Peggle’s not in that number.”

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