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MMOrning Shots: The Phoenix Project


We’re not just building a game; we’re building a world, which we hope will be able to stand on its own merits in an environment fraught with intense competition. It will only be able to do so with the support of its surrounding community. I love reading up on the two City of Heroes spiritual [...]

Perfect World Rolls Back Neverwinter Servers To Fix Exploit


Last time we checked in with Perfect World over the Neverwinter auction house exploit, the company was pretty determined to keep the possibility of a rollback secluded only to those accounts that were affected by this weekend’s brou ha ha. At one point the company must have determined that character-specific rollbacks were not on the [...]

MMOrning Shots: Dynamic Lighting


The ROBLOX team never fails to amaze me with their continued updates to the game engine, making player creations look better and function on a whole new level with each iteration. It is incredible how much better an image looks with a little ambient lighting and shadows. The above creation is Cold Fusion by Spacek531. [...]

Perfect World Responds To Recent Neverwinter Exploit


The Astral Diamond Exchange and Auction House are temporarily offline after a bug allowing players to duplicate astral diamonds was discovered and exploited by players. Perfect World has posted a notice on the forums that they are currently compiling data to see how widespread the effects of the exploit are, and will be using that [...]

Auction House Exploit Tears Through Neverwinter


You’d best put seat belts on your ears, because I’m going to take them for the ride of their life. Perfect World Entertainment are in the midst of some very heavy damage control after an exploit popped up in Neverwinter and threw the game’s economy into turmoil. I won’t go into details about the exploit [...]

Planetside 2 Update Bringing Lattice System


Ask any Planetside player who made the transition to Planetside 2 what their biggest gripe is, and in all likelihood you will hear about the lack of a lattice system. In Planetside, bases and outposts are connected to each other through nodes, where those further into enemy territory cannot be captured until those at the [...]

MMOrning Shot: Driving In Style


Today’s MMOrning Shot comes from Fallen Earth, showing off the upcoming Vandal Hatchback vehicle. Players will be able to get their hands one one soon™. MMOrning Shots is a daily line of screenshots from various MMOs. Most are taken in-house or come to us in press releases, but if you would like your screenshot featured, [...]

Guild Wars Is In Maintenance Mode


I think most of us got the hint that this was coming around the time that NCSoft stopped listing Guild Wars on their quarterly financial releases. With the rousing success of Guild Wars 2 and the ever advancing age of Guild Wars, Arenanet has posted today to reveal that their ongoing updates to Guild Wars [...]

Aventurine Lays Out Roadmap For Darkfall


Darkfall Unholy Wars has launched and is under way for ongoing development. Due to popular demand, and a commitment by Aventurine to stay in touch with their community, the developer has laid out a roadmap for the weeks to come, detailing weekly planned updates in May and June. The updates add new monsters, tweaks to [...]

Akaneiro Coming To Steam


We love Akaneiro here at MMO Fallout, and not just because the developer behind it is Spicy Horse Games, also known as that developer in Shanghai where American McGee works and creates his American McGee games. If you don’t know what Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is, it is a free to play hack and slash along [...]