Bill Murphy writes of his wife's bedridden status due to the flu and his guilty pleasure at having more time to game. Check out Bill's entry into the MMORPG.com Staff Blog and then leave him a comment or two.
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Perfect World Entertainment has announced that its anticipated new MMO, Forsaken World, will be officially launched on March 23, 2011. The launch will be a simultaneous North American and European event. PWE has said from the start that the "game was built from the ground up with the western gamers in mind."
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Heatwave Interactive has posted a new in-house developer Q&A with specific regard to combat in Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising. The questions run the gamut of how combat has changed to whether or not players can effectively engage enemies without minions.
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The EVE Online Insider is reporting that a collective group of nearly one hundred capsuleers gathered in the Parchanier system in the Algintal constellation to defeat a Sansha invasion. From all reports, the Sansha were defeated and a Nation super carrier were destroyed effectively chasing the Sansha from the region.
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Turbine and the Lord of the Rings Online team have posted a response to a universal outage of all forums and LOTRO. According to the post, both the main and backup systems went down. At this time, Turbine is working with the systems operator to ensure it doesn't happen again. In addition, there are plans in the works for the upcoming weekend to help smooth customers' ruffled feathers.
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Trion Worlds and the Rift dev team have announced that closed Beta Event #6 will commence on Friday, February 4th. Called "Planar War", players participating and assisting with closing a rift will be awarded planar rewards. In addition, those closing rifts will be entered in a drawing for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460.
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In his latest entry into the MMORPG.com Staff Blog, Canadian citizen and Managing Editor Jon Wood talks about impending legislation that would allow ISPs to charge users for usage. If that doesn't sound like it would take a 'byte' out of your wallet, nothing will. Check out Jon's thoughts. Don't think that just because it's Canada, it can't happen to you. Let us know your thoughts in the comments after the blog!
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Vogster has sent out four new screenshots and some information about upcoming Crimecraft: Bleedout episodic content updates. Bleedout Episode 6: The Achilles Helix is scheduled to begin on February 5th with players getting to go deep inside the Sons of Liberty faction. Check out the screens in our Crimecraft gallery.
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NCWest has posted a new thread on the official Lineage II forums with the preliminary patch notes for the upcoming High Five update. The effort came about due to players releasing incorrect information from poor translations of the Korean patch notes. The forum post details thirteen features that have been extensively overhauled for High Five and, while the patch notes are not finalized, it's a terrific forward-look at what's coming.
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In the Free Zone this week, MMORPG.com columnist Richard Aihoshi springboards off of Garrett Fuller's recent article about Why MMOs Fail. Richard centers his discussion on the free to play aspect of the MMO universe and outlines two specific shortcomings endemic to the genre. Check out Richard's thoughts and then add your own to the mix in the comments below.
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