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Star Trek Online players have raised $35,000 for an anti-bullying organization founded by former Deep Space Nine actor Chase Masterson (Leeta)called Pop Culture Hero Coalition. The funds were raised through the sale of a a limited quantity of T1 ships and shuttles and T6 ships that were released on Groupees.com on November 12th.
For those looking for a true old school feeling to their MMO, Daybreak Game Company has announced that a ‘true box’, one account per player, progression server called Phinigel. Players will need to make friends, participate in chat and talk to be able to make it in the game world. The new server is scheduled to open on Wednesday, December 9th.
Webzen has announced that ELOA, Elite Lord of Alliance, has ended the open beta phase of development and officially entered into full retail release. With today’s launch, the in-game shop has arrived packed with cosmetic looks and potions.
The World of Warships team has sent out the latest video developer diary that covers how the score and sound for the game. It’s a fascinating look behind the scenes at the creative process in action. Check it out!
Over the past several months, Marvel Heroes 2015 players and community members have been asked to vote for the character they’d most like to see enter the game. With today, the results are in and it will be Magick, voiced by Tara Strong, who will be joining the fray alongside her brother, Colossus.
Battlestate Games is featuring a huge reveal today with the first-eve gameplay footage from their hybrid action MMORPG/FPS/TPS title called Escape from Tarkov. The footage was shot during a pre-alpha event. Check it out!
During the heady days of post-Azeroth consumer boom and investor interest, the MMORPG was booming. So many new games… and so many that didn’t meet expectations of consumers or investors. Now, 11 years after the launch of World of Warcraft, it’s clearer now than ever before: we need a hero to save us from extinction.
ESTsoft has announced that the next major update for Cabal 2 will be called "Challenge Mode" that pits players against ever-increasingly difficult waves of monsters in an effort to score a spot on the new leader boards. These challenges will see players in familiar dungeons, but ones filled with new twists and challenges.
With the commencement of the limited "limited alpha" that includes VIPs, streaming notables, members of the games press, and some rank-and-file players, the information about the World of Warcraft: Legion expansion has flooded out the gate. Blizzard places no limits on its alpha players and, in fact, encourages them to stream game play, write about it, post impressions and screenshots and much more.
The Blizzard corporate web site has been updated with three key positions on the World of Warcraft team: Art Director, Assistant Art Director and Lead Producer. Currently, Chris Robinson is the Art Director and John Lagrave is currently listed as the Lead Producer for WoW. Whether these two are moving internally to other Blizzard projects will remain to be seen.