Turbine’s Senior Producer has posted an announcement on the Dungeons and Dragons Online forum announcing that due to player feedback and internal testing, the price of Heroic Hearts of Wood will be greatly reduced when Update 20 goes live. Additionally, players will still be able to purchase Hearts of Wood from the Twelve barter NPC, … Continue reading “Turbine Responds To True Heart Criticism”
So the issue of Eve Online’s servers being hit by a DDoS attack and brought offline for extended maintenance has been fixed, and players are once again flying through space and shooting each other to death. With the attacks behind them and security teams working on new methods to protect the servers, CCP has turned … Continue reading “50,000 Skill Points Gifted By CCP Due To Downtime”
Like most of you, I’ve had my silent preconceptions about Neverwinter. After all, we’ve had two past releases from Cryptic to look at and base our assumptions off of, and I’m happy to say that most of them will be proven wrong. I enjoyed Champions Online when it launched and, seeing as how I have … Continue reading “Neverwinter: Getting A Beta Perspective”
Back when I first started talking about alternatives to Lego Universe, a few people came up and recommended Garry’s Mod, a modification for Valve’s Source Engine which allows players to play a very wide variety of games from shooters to role playing to building and everything in between. Without hesitation, I said no. Absolutely not, … Continue reading “Garry's Mod: When Your Community Is So Atrocious…”
Back when I first started talking about alternatives to Lego Universe, a few people came up and recommended Garry’s Mod, a modification for Valve’s Source Engine which allows players to play a very wide variety of games from shooters to role playing to building and everything in between. Without hesitation, I said no. Absolutely not, … Continue reading “Garry’s Mod: When Your Community Is So Atrocious…”
I have a feeling that we’re going to be seeing a lot more of Gaikai around here for the foreseeable future. Two weeks ago I talked about Turbine’s plan to bring a limited trial for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online to Gaikai, an online streaming service where players would be able … Continue reading “Eve Online Possibly Coming To Gaikai, Onlive”
I’ve talked about disgruntled customers in the past, and once or twice about how occasionally those people happen to have access to say intimate knowledge of SQL database exploits or how to launch denial of service attacks, not that the latter requires much technical prowess. To make matters worse, while large businesses require denial of … Continue reading “Perpetuum: When One Person Can Ruin Everyone’s Fun”
I’ve talked about disgruntled customers in the past, and once or twice about how occasionally those people happen to have access to say intimate knowledge of SQL database exploits or how to launch denial of service attacks, not that the latter requires much technical prowess. To make matters worse, while large businesses require denial of … Continue reading “Perpetuum: When One Person Can Ruin Everyone's Fun”
Less than a week ago I discussed findings on the Dungeons and Dragons Online forums by sleuths far more skilled than myself, that Turbine has been buying up domains relating to Forgotten Realms and “____ of the Underdark,” as well as related to the fictional deity Lolth. Well that speculation has come to fruition, in … Continue reading “Turbine Breaking Out The Forgotten Realms”
In the past, I’ve discussed the ongoing “fight” between Turbine and Cryptic Studios over how Cryptic’s upcoming Neverwinter MMO will directly compete with Turbine’s Dungeons and Dragons Online. After an undisclosed settlement with Turbine, Cryptic made it clear as day that Neverwinter is not an MMO, and never will be an MMO. That being said, … Continue reading “Turbine Vs Cryptic: Turbine Introducing Forgotten Realms?”
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