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…
Last Friday was the third anniversary of the public launch of World of Warcraft, and Blizzard is holding a contest to celebrate.
WoW was launched on November 23, 2004 in the United States, Canada, News Zealand, Australia and Mexico. Korea launched on January 18, 2005; and the game hit European PCs on February 11.
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Sony Online Entertainment and Flying Lab Software announced this morning that their pirate-themed MMORPG, Pirates of the Burning Sea, will launch worldwide on January 22. PotBS is the most anticipated of the current crop of pirate MMOs.All players in PotBS are captains, and can join one of four factions: the French, Spanish, English, or Pirate nations. Continued…
Here’s the deal, Microsoft. Halo 3 was officially announced on May 10, 2006; and you knew about it for a few years before that. But even if your Xbox Live team didn’t know about the game or its launch date until last May, that gave them 502 days to prepare for the onslaught on their servers.Yet, as of this morning, countless players could not access XBL, and at 8pm last night PST, there were only 1000 players on Halo 3. Gamers are also complaining that they cannot download updates.
Why wouldn’t Microsoft upgrade the XBL server farm to deal with the additional bandwidth of a big launch? Continued…
A Chinese World of Warcraft player called SilverDragon leveled to 70 just 24 hours after the Burning Crusade expansion debuted in the People’s Republic.
He is the first player to max out at 70 in China’s heavily-monitored version of the MMORPG.
When Burning Crusade first launched in January, a French player named Gullerbone hit 70 just 28 hours later.
Perhaps it’s easier to level in the Chinese version of WoW because there are no skeletons. Continued…
