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Warhammer Online: Will Actually Suck

By Drugstore Space Cowboy | July 11, 2008

In an interview published just a short while ago on MMORPG.com, Mark Jacobs announced that out of six planned capital cities in WAR, only two would make it to release. Finally, an MMO developer is learning from the mistakes of others. Mythic Entertainment is managing expectations, not breaking promises,

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Age of Conan’s New PvP Consequences Are Bad

By Adam Tiler | June 16, 2008

AoC’s new mechanics purport to discourage griefing, camping and lowbie ganking. Who could legitimately criticize “enhancements”? Much like Mao Tse-tung’s Great Leap Forward, however, these changes promise to bring strife, if not the deaths of 14 to 43 million Asians.

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Collision Detection is Good for PvP

By Adam Tiler | April 28, 2008

One of the most-hyped features of the two major upcoming MMOs, Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, is collision detection between player characters. Both emphasize PvP combat far more heavily than have previous titles…

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Great Moments in MMORPG Oratory

"Having behind us the crafters of this server and the world, supported by the traders, the raiders and the PKers everywhere, we will answer their demand for gold selling by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of n00bs this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of RMT."

-- Willi4m J3nningZ'Bry4n
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- Alex Macdonald on New Kid
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- Dave Cleveland on Games I Learned Stuff From
- Mitchel Harper on MUTO Graffiti Animation
- Scott Terry on Age of Conan’s New PvP Consequences Are Bad
- world of warcraft on Improvements to Website, plus “Great Oratory” Feature
- Colin on Battlefield 2142 for the Mac
- Zubon on Moving In
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"The sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost. And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”