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Turbine has recently released a new video diary that focuses on the Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan expansion. In this particular video blog, the dev team talks extensively about mounted combat, from group dynamics of riding on the mounts, to different tactics associated with mounted combat and the new skills and damage involved with riding and attacking enemies on a horse.
Blur Studios’ extended trailer for Sony Online Entertainment’s first-person shooter MMO. Sony Online Entertainment premiered the ?Death Is No Excuse? PlanetSide 2 cinematic trailer, produced by Blur Studio, at ChinaJoy 2012, Asia?s game expo, along with the simultaneous worldwide debut of the trailer online.
Basically what we’re saying is the Marvel MMORPG will be awesome! Marvel Heroes combines core gameplay elements of Diablowith the expansive library of heroes from the Marvel Universe, including all your favorite Avengers.
Blizzard announced today that their fourth expansion for the most successful subscription-based MMORPG of all time, World of Warcraft, will be available in-stores and online beginning September 25th, 2012. The players will be able to step foot on the shores of the long lost continent of Pandaria and journey through the mysterious lands to uncover ancient secrecies.
In The Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan, the War-steed is your personal combat mount. It gains experience and can be trained and specialized in a variety of ways. Assigning earned trait points will allow you to improve their attributes,acquire new skills, and improve your own mounted combat skills. Unlike standard travel mounts, War-steeds hail from a long lineage of majestic, highly intelligent, and kingly creatures known as the Mearas.
Gamania Digital Entertainment today announced that after successful open beta testing, Divina is now ready to launch. The free-to-play 3D MMORPG is scheduled to go commercial at 3:00PM PDT with a full Cash Shop available for players.
Conquer Online 3 is the much anticipated sequel to NetDragon’s successful free-to-play MMORPG, Conquer Online2.0. While preserving many popular features of its predecessor, Conquer Online3 will also welcome tons of new elements as well as improvements. In Conquer Online3, the control will be simpler, both the PvP and PvE battle will be more challenging and the balance for classes will be reshaped with each class having their own specialties. At the same time, the controversial Battle Power feature will be eliminated.
Gala Networks Europe, one of the leading free-to-play games publishers and operator of the GPotato portal, is delighted to announce that Phoenix, the latest update for its action-packed MMORPG Dragonica, will be going live today, Tuesday 24th July after a scheduled maintenance. The Phoenix update will bring a complete graphics overhaul to the Dragonica universe, as well as add a host of brand new features and updates.
From Demiurge Studios comes Shoot Many Robots: Arena Kings, the player-versus-player follow-up to its recently released Shoot Many Robots. The new, standalone title Arena Kings is an online deathmatch that pits players against each other in a game of (porcelain) thrones. In ?Royal Flush? the Kings must murder each other to collect their crowns, and flush them down a teleporting golden toilet, naturally. New content and updates are being added to the game weekly, based on feedback received directly from players. Don?t just stay tuned to see what happens next ? be a part of it!
Spirit Tales, the world?s most customizable game, has released its latest ?Clan Island? update, just in time for summer. The Clan Island is a special location where each clan can hang out, take videos of them without being disturbed, stash various items, go fishing, and even relax in a hot spring.
Drakensang Online, the award-winning online hack & slay from Bigpoint, is celebrating the end of its beta with nine million registered players! To mark the occasion, the development team is staging a number of in-game events. With the recent Atlantis update, the game world and content is now four times as big as when the action RPG first went into beta almost a year ago.
Pockie Ninja II Original, published by NGames, has made a vast improvement over the 2011 version of Pockie Ninja. They have just announced that their website is live! The sequel to the smash hit will have new free-roaming capabilities, updated quests and storylines, dazzling new locations and graphics powered by an advanced engine 2.0, updated combat and clan systems and some more extras as well.
Heroes of Newerth is looking to distinguish itself in the already-crowded multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre. To compete with the huge and wildly-popular titles such as League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth went free-to-play last year. But now, with Dota 2 just itching to be released into the MOBA free-to-play slugfest, Heroes of Newerth is taking the plunge and making all of its heroes free-to-own as of July 20th.
Heads up! The medium-weight Centurion mech has just been revealed in a new video published by Piranha Games, the folks behind MechWarrior Online, the upcoming free-to-play MMO based on the long-running MechWarrior game series.
It’s been a little while since Guan Yu made his debut in Hi-Rez Studios upcoming free-to-play MOBA, SMITE, but it looks like another new god is ready to enter the battlefield and the folks at Hi-Rez Studios have prepared a short introductory video to show him off to you. Bakasura, the Great Devourer, was a hindu demon asura with quite an appetite.
Arktos Entertainment Group and Hammerpoint Interactive, a new independent game development studio located in Los Angeles, Calif., are finally lifting the veil and announcing their debut title, The War Z (TWZ). A session-based, massively multiplayer online game (MMO), The War Z is inspired by all things zombie and is set in a true post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world where other players can prove to be a greater threat than the undead hordes that populate the land. The game is slated for release in fall 2012 for the Windows PC platform.