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The Splitpaw Saga For EverQuest II |
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Warhammer Online Coming to Russia |
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Criterion announces its dPVS middleware package will boost massively multiplayer performance. DPVS will improve the quality of massively multiplayer games by enabling larger and generally richer, more populated worlds, through quickly and dynamically determining what elements need to be drawn at any given time and what elements do not. |
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A Warhammer Online pre order will also guarantee access to the live servers before those who buy the game on day one. |
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Tribal Nations is a free to play online game for all ages, further widening Acclaim's growing stable of free online gaming experiences. |
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Another hands-on look at Zuxxex' light hearted blend of strategy and role playing elements. |
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a nice interview up with Turbine producer Jeffrey Steefel, mostly centered on the Lord of the Rings Online forthcoming Mines of Moria expansion - also discussed are things like how Steefel perceives LOTRO's performance, expansion features, and issues of designing for a license. |
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The rights of 'avatars' - more to the point, the people who control them and their virtual assets - is an interesting and murky part of legal issues, EULAs, and player-company relations. |
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Based on MGM's hugely popular science fiction universe that has entertained an entire generation of TV watchers, Stargate Worlds takes place within the early portion of the Stargate SG-1 timeline. |
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Among everything else going on at the Austin GDC, an interesting panel took place on the issue of changing business models in MMOs - Free To Play has an easy to read, to the point summation of the panel, which included Robert Ferrari of Turbine (LOTRO), Hilmar Veigar Petursson of CCP (EVE Online), Nicolay Nickelsen of Funcom (Age of Conan), and Min Kim of Nexon (MapleStory). |