KeyWord: Weekly Roundup, World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, Guild Wars
Date: 2006-12-19
Summary:In the MMO world, every day is different. Sometimes you are thrilled upon the release of your long-awaited MMO, and sometimes you will feel upset for the closedown of your beloved MMO. MMOsite.com will record exactly what is going on in the MMO world. Now let?s run back over the events that happened last week.
In the MMO world, every day is different. Sometimes you are thrilled upon the release of your long-awaited MMO, and sometimes you will feel upset for the closedown of your beloved MMO. MMOsite.com will record exactly what is going on in the MMO world. Now let?s run back over the events that happened last week.
The famous TV series Firefly will become a PC online game. Multiverse has signed an agreement with Fox that they would develop a massively multiplayer online game based on Firefly.
NetDevil the developer of Auto Assault announced they signed Kohnke Communications for assistance with its corporate and product public relations initiatives.
Red 5 Studios, a new MMOG development team founded by World of Warcraft?s key developers such as Mark Kern, William Petras, Taewon Yun and so on, announced they get ?18.5 million fund from Benchmark Capital and Sierra Ventures. And Red 5 Studios?¯ first MMOG is already under development which is financed and distributed globally by Webzen.
Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG scheduled for Windows in the first half of 2006. A mix of a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Now you can enter the brutal domain of the world?s greatest fantasy hero.
In Conan the players will encounter a dark, lush, violent and sinful universe, presented in fantastic graphics and stunning 7.1 surround audio. In a world filled with cruel gods, mythical creatures, lost civilizations and a struggling human race, the mighty barbarian has finally seized the throne as king of Aquilonia. But Conan?s rule is on the brink of chaos, spiraling towards the doom of ancient evils.
In a press release issued today, ArenaNet and NCsoft announced that more than 3,000,000 copies of Guild Wars have been sold to date. The press release also provides an outline of the upcoming Wintersday Festival and reveals some exciting new features that will be implemented coming over the Holiday season.
Introduction
Guild Wars takes the best elements of today?s massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates some of the more tedious aspects of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests are all things of the past. Within a Guild Wars quest you have unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you; with the dynamic quest system, your accomplishments have a unique influence on your future.
You?ll never spend days playing, only to discover that the choices you made early have left you with a permanently uncompetitive character. The unique skill system in Guild Wars encourages infinite experimentation but doesn?t allow early choices to limit a character. And you?ll never meet new players only to discover that you can?t play with them or compete against them because their characters are on a different server than yours; in Guild Wars, all characters live in one seamless world.
The amendment prescribes that nobody is allowed to exchange, do brokerage business on, or buy any tangible and intangible items, including game points, in-game currency and giveaways obtained in the game.
Gala-Net announced they will soon release the new expansion for Rappelz on December 20th. Players can download and play Rappelz Epic III Expansion for free.
The upcoming ultraviolent game 2moons? closed beta test will start soon, the build for the Closed Beta version is not ready yet and is still being finalized. As a rough estimate, the CB test is expected to begin on January 7th.
2Moons is set in an aggressive, dangerous world where players must battle their way through harship to become the ultimate warrior.2Moons is described as a "re-make" rather than a translated or even localized version.
