Fallout 3 developer Bethesda has been locked in a lawsuit with Interplay, who made the original game and published the second, for some time now, but it looks as though the end of the court action is in sight with exciting results. Read more
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Sony Online Entertainment is aiming to attract more players to its fantasy MMO EverQuest II by launching a free-to-play membership tier with access to restricted game features.
Star Trek Online is set to launch on 2 February and the trailers are now coming thick and fast with the latest revealing the Klingon’s home world and a healthy slice of space battles.
With only a couple of months to go before its official release, and a mere few weeks before its open beta shindig, Star Wars Online developers Cryptic Studios and Atari have released the first video that shows actual gameplay. Read on for the action.
The Chinese government has taken a new stance against virtual currency trading that is set to have a huge impact on so-called Gold Farmers. The announcement, made by China’s Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Commerce, stated that virtual currency could only be used to trade for “virtual goods and services provided by its issuer, not real goods and services.”
WoW players rack up an incredible 16.6 million completed quests every single day, lead designer Jeff Kaplan has revealed. That means the 11 million story army of international World of Warcraft players is farming 11,520 quests each minute or 192 per second. Even after five years at the top of the MMO hit list, WoW is showing absolutely no signs of giving up its top spot.
Last year was a big one for Ultima creator Richard Garriott. He had a 12 day jaunt in space and he parted company with NCsoft leaving the ashes of MMO Tabula Rasa in his wake. So what’s next for the video game designer cum space adventurer? He’s going back to his roots, telling the Beeb that he’s keen to get back into medieval fantasy, and probably of the online kind.
Worlds.com – a company with an expensive web address, a fistful of wide-ranging patents, an expensive lawyer and no discernible product – is suing MMO maker NCsoft, for making MMOs. Welcome to the wacky world of patent lawsuits. Worlds.com believes that NCsoft has violated U.S. Patent 7,181,690, to the detriment of its business, and presumably wants some kind of cash handout justice.