Filed under: Historical , Events (Real-World) , Events (In-Game) , War , Free-to-Play , World of Tanks You may be familiar with Wargaming through the development studio’s wildly successful game World of Tanks , but did you know that the company has been around for 15 years and has developed almost a dozen other games?
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Wargaming celebrates 15 years with new World of Tanks tournament
Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Screenshots , Business Models , Game Mechanics , New Titles , Opinion , Free-to-Play , Hands-On , Humor , First Impressions , Dungeons , Neverwinter , Player-Generated Content Neverwinter’s launch into open beta began last week, and through the grace of my press account, my Great Weapon Fighter was lucky enough to begin her digital life alongside players who forked over $199.99 for the Hero of the North Founder’s Pack. I lack any of the Founders Pack bonuses, so off my plucky human character went, surrounded on her first day almost exclusively by panther-having Drow. Justin’s been serving up a delicious helping of launch diary goodness , but he’s relaxing on a cruise ship this week, so you’re stuck with me! Join me as we sally forth into my launch-but-not-really-launch-it’s-open-beta-okay-guys-but-we-aren’t-deleting-characters-anymore-no-really-it’s-still-open-beta-look-it-says-so-in-this-blog-post impressions! The first section is about thighs.
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Pantsless: First impressions of Neverwinter’s open beta headstart
Filed under: Fantasy , Game Mechanics , PvP , News Items , Guild Wars 2 ArenaNet has been searching for a solution to Guild Wars 2’s WvW reset problem for a while now.
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ArenaNet separates WvW reset times for North American and European servers
Filed under: Fantasy , PvP , Guild Wars 2 , Buy-to-Play Guild Wars 2 World vs. World players, take note: ArenaNet is changing the time that it resets the matches. According to a quick post on the forums , the time is changing from 8:00 p.m.
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Guild Wars 2 changes WvW match reset time
Paradox North has turned Magicka into a competitive multiplayer game that focuses on action, speed, and setting wizards on fire.
Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Sci-fi , MMO industry , New titles , News items , Free-to-play Phantasy Star Online 2 boasted some impressive user numbers late last year , but that’s apparently not enough to keep the title from being delayed in the West. Publisher Sega “can officially confirm that PSO2 has been delayed,” according to Polygon
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Sega delays Phantasy Star Online 2’s North American launch
Filed under: Sci-fi , Business models , MMO industry , News items , Free-to-play , Star Wars: The Old Republic BioWare is closing Asia-Pacific Star Wars: The Old Republic servers and relocating their residents to North American west coast shards. In a post on the SWTOR boards, community manager Eric Musco explains.
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SWTOR’s Asia-Pacific servers merging with North American shards
Filed under: Fantasy , Business models , Events, in-game , MMO industry , News items , Free-to-play , TERA The North American version of TERA has surpassed 1.4 million player accounts according to En Masse . TERA made the free-to-play switch in February and has since added additional servers, a new dungeon, and a PvP battle arena. En Masse is celebrating its uptick with an in-game event called Dracoloths Rising
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TERA NA surpasses 1.4 million accounts, celebrates with in-game event
Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Video , Game mechanics , MMO industry , New titles , News items , Free-to-play , Dragon’s Prophet MMO Culture has posted some hands-on impressions with Runewaker’s new Dragon’s Prophet title. The fantasy MMO, which will be published in North America by SOE , is most notable for its extensive dragon-based gameplay featuring taming, progression, and mounted combat. The author comments on the game’s combo-based combat system, saying that it is “full non-target” with the ability to aim manually and hit multiple enemies
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Dragon’s Prophet gameplay on display in beta vids
Filed under: Betas , Launches , MMO industry , New titles , News items , Betawatch , Miscellaneous ArcheAge is soon to launch in its native Korea, marking the end of its testing, and the English site for the game has just received a revamp which is hopefully indicative of an upcoming release.
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Betawatch: January 12 – 18, 2013