Turbine, creators of the Tolkien-based MMORPG Lord of the Rings Online, announced the first major expansion for the fantasy game, The Mines of Moria.
From the press release:
BIRMINGHAM, UK – March 14, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online today unveiled Volume II of The Lord of the Rings Online™, the first retail expansion for the award-winning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG). Announced in Birmingham, the childhood home of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™ will expand the online world of Middle-earth to let players explore the ancient underground cities of the dwarves, battle epic characters in the depths, face off with the Watcher, be a part of the fateful release of Durin’s Bane and more! The Lord of the Rings Online expects to open Volume II of its epic story in the fall of 2008 with an increased level cap, two new classes and the introduction of a unique item advancement system. Continued…
Some poor Icelandic programmer is going to have to undergo the Blood Eagle. Windows XP users who installed the premium Trinity expansion patch for EVE Online had their boot.ini file nuked. The next time they tried to boot up — no operating system. Oops.
Oh, CCP. Þú ættir að vita betur!
The patch has been repaired, and users who haven’t rebooted their machine can fix the problem somewhat easily. But if you tried to reboot, your pooch is screwed.
Trinity updates the graphics engine and adds new ships. Users can keep the old graphics (Trinity Classic) or upgrade (Trinity Premium).
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EVE Online, the world’s most complicated Icelandic sci-fi economic-simulation massively multiplayer online role-playing game, will launch its new expansion, EVE Online: Trinity, on December 5, according to developer CCP.
The free download will be available to all 200,000 of the game’s players. Continued…
I may be a Blizzard fanboy, but I also love Battle for Middle Earth II. So the first thing I thought at the Wrath of the Lich King announcement was, WTF?
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