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Filed under: Business Models , Culture , Interviews , MMO Industry , News Items , Opinion A few days ago we reported on RIFT’s impending free-to-play conversion, followed by the news that Trion was undergoing a second set of apparently unrelated layoffs. Former Trion studio GM and CCO Scott Hartsman responded to the layoffs on Twitter, intimating that aspects of the gaming industry are “fundamentally broken.” After we invited your thoughts on that same subject in a Daily Grind earlier this week, we contacted Hartsman in the hopes of getting him to elaborate. Join us after the cut for the resulting interview.

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Hartsman: ‘The traditional AAA style of development and distribution’ is broken

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Filed under: Historical , News Items , Free-to-Play , Promotions Is your ship in Uncharted Waters Online something less than ship-shape? Perhaps you could put the wind back in your sails with one of the special item packs available for the game on Steam. In anticipation of the game’s next major patch arriving on the 28th, Netmarble has lowered the prices on all three packs by 70% , allowing characters to leave port with big boosts for fewer of your hard-earned real money.

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Uncharted Waters Online discounts Steam packages before a big patch docks

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Filed under: Fantasy , Classes , Game Mechanics , MMO Industry , New Titles , Previews , News Items , PvE , Opinion , Free-to-Play , Hands-On , First Impressions , Dragon’s Prophet I don’t have many fond memories from Runes of Magic . I didn’t play it long, and the thing I recall most vividly is being forced to hunt around Runewaker’s cash shop for an item that would let me talk in global chat. Fortunately, negative vibes like that didn’t affect my recent hands-on with Dragon’s Prophet ’s beta, which, in case you’re wondering, is Runewaker’s followup to Runes of Magic

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Massively’s Dragon’s Prophet first impressions

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Filed under: Fantasy , Business Models , Economy , Game Mechanics , News Items , Free-to-Play , RIFT RIFT is introducing an innovative new program that allows players to get items for free when they spend money or money-substitutes on other items! The new rewards program will give players Loyalty points as those players purchase or spend credits, subscribe as a Patron, or consume REX ( RIFT ‘ s tradable currency that can be purchased for real-world money). Since REX is tradable between players, a particularly thrifty player could accrue loyalty points without ever spending a real-world dime in RIFT’s store

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RIFT introduces loyalty rewards program for dedicated players

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Expansions , Launches , News Items , Star Trek Online , Free-to-Play , Races With today’s launch of Star Trek Online’s first expansion, Legacy of Romulus , players can boldly go where no one has gone before.

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Star Trek Online Legacy of Romulus launch-day roundup

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , EVE Online , New Titles , Previews , News Items , Mobile , Sandbox , Subscription If you’ve ever been involved in a discussion about EVE Online , you’ve heard it referred to as a sequence of spreadsheets which occasionally let you fly a spaceship.

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EVE Mobile is coming according to Jon Lander

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Game Mechanics , MMO Industry , New Titles , News Items , PvE , Sandbox , Star Citizen , Buy-to-Play Cloud Imperium has taken the wraps off Star Citizen’s hangar module, a standalone app that’s scheduled to be released to early adopters later this summer.

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Cloud Imperium unveils Star Citizen hangar module

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Filed under: Launches , New Titles , News Items , Consoles , Rumors , Destiny Some rumors recently started circulating regarding Bungie’s upcoming title, Destiny , and the PlayStation Vita . Bungie confirmed that these rumors are false and that Destiny will not be revealed on the PlayStation Vita (despite some previous vague hints to the contrary in the preorder page’s source code). The rumors started after the release of an image that hinted at a Bungie game coming to PS Vita in 2014 called Destiny of Spirits

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Bungie squashes rumors that Destiny might come to the PlayStation Vita

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Filed under: Launches , New Titles , News Items , Consoles , Rumors , Destiny Some rumors recently started circulating regarding Bungie’s upcoming title, Destiny , and the PlayStation Vita . Bungie confirmed that these rumors are false and that Destiny will not be revealed on the PlayStation Vita (despite some previous vague hints to the contrary in the preorder page’s source code). The rumors started after the release of an image that hinted at a Bungie game coming to PS Vita in 2014 called Destiny of Spirits .

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Bungie quashes rumors that Destiny might come to the PlayStation Vita

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Filed under: Culture , MMO Industry , News Items The Lulzsec hackers responsible for a string of 2011 cyber attacks that targeted game companies including Sony , Nintendo , Epic , Bethesda , and Mojang have been sentenced to jail time. Gamespot reports that Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam, and Ryan Ackroyd pled guilty last month

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Prosecutors laugh last, Lulzsec hackers sentenced

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