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Many gamers have complained that the level cap in Star Wars: The Old Republic makes the game feel too short, at least by MMO standards. At the Game Developers Conference today, BioWare creative director James Ohlen explained the reasoning behind this level cap — and just how long the dev team thought it would take gamers to reach it.
Hit the break for details.
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Few games have had the success of the Halo franchise, gaining worldwide recognition and a huge fanbase. Now the original developers of Halo aim to create a game that’s bigger and more expansive than anything that’s come before it. Meet Destiny.
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There is a new trend occurring among anime: multiplayer online games. It started with Accel World, then Sword Art Online, and now its newest contender, Log Horizon.
Log Horizon is a light novel by Mamare Touno and is slated to appear in the Fall Season of anime. The light novel will be adapted by Satelight (Macross F) and will run for 25 episodes.
[Crunchyroll, Anime News Network]
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It looks Namco Bandai will make its first footstep into the world of China’s PC Online Game with everyone’s favorite orange-wearing ninja.
It was announced today that Namco Bandai will collaborate with Chinese Internet company Tencent Games for Naruto Online. Both companies will develop it, with assistance from CyberConnect 2, while the game will see release on Tencent’s Chinese Portal site sometime this year.
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Guild Wars 2 (PC): Headlining a busy week is the sequel to ArenaNet’s 2005 hit fantasy MMO. Taking place 250 years after the first game in Tyria, elder dragons have awoken and caused catastrophic damage to its inhabitants, resulting in a power struggle between races. Players will team up and fight against one another as they try to defeat one of the five elder dragons, Zhaitan, in the beginning of this epic MMORPG.
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Not only is the release date not officially set for August 28th, but the last beta weekend has been set as well, July 20-22. You can read more about it in the official post.
[ArenaNet]
Marvel’s MMO Named “Marvel Heroes”
The previously named Marvel Universe, the free-to-play MMO developed by Gazillion, will now be named Marvel Heroes.
The game’s story will be written by Brian Michael Bendis and will allow players to play around main Marvel Universe, Ultimate and film worlds. There’s still no word yet of the release date or whether this is aimed at consoles or PCs, but Gazillion did reveal some more designs with Spider-Man, Thor and Thing.
Could this be a successful project from Marvel? Stay tuned true believers.
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Korean developer Ntreev is readying a Power Rangers MMO that seems to be based off the Mystic Force series. The beta is apparently going to be released only in Korea on November 3 and will hold up to 5,000 players. It will last until November 9.
For more on the MMO as well as some pictures, check after the break.
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The latest title in the popular JRPG series was announced during a Square Enix Dragon Quest event. The game, titled Dragon Quest X Online: Rise of the Five Tribes, will be coming to a Wii near you.
As the name suggests, the game is somewhat an MMO-style game which expands on the multiplayer element of Dragon Quest IX. At this point in time, it does seem like an online Dragon Quest game, rather than the traditional offline JRPG that the Dragon Quest series is known for.
So it’s like the FFXI of the Dragon Quest series, in terms of being an MMO in the midst of a string of traditional offline JRPG.
Hit the cut for further details!
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For those keeping hope that Star Wars: The Old Republic would be releasing sometime soon, you may want let it go for a bit. Eric Brown, CFO of Electronic Arts, was recently quick to point out that the MMO won’t be out until at least the 2012 fiscal year, which technically begins April 2011. But consider a target date of somewhere in the actual year of 2012 to be more fair.
So move along troopers, nothing to see here for at least 12 months.
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Don’t Hold Your Breath For That Star Wars MMO
For those keeping hope that Star Wars: The Old Republic would be releasing sometime soon, you may want let it go for a bit. Eric Brown, CFO of Electronic Arts, was recently quick to point out that the MMO won’t be out until at least the 2012 fiscal year, which technically begins April 2011. But consider a target date of somewhere in the actual year of 2012 to be more fair.
So move along troopers, nothing to see here for at least 12 months.
[Kotaku]
On the night of November 21st, a Chinese gamer plopped down $15,000 for the opportunity to play on an LED sky screen that’s 820 feet long. The Place — a landmark in Beijing — is home to said screen that’s 250 meters long and 30 meters wide and is currently the largest LED screen in Asia.
The supposed wealthy gamer was jealous of the fact that a rival MMO player was able to play on an IMAX theater, so he did what any gaming baller would do: Reach into his couch cushion for some loose change and buy-out the largest screen he could find. That he did. He strolled into The Place, sat down on a lounge chair below the screen, in a squared section that was taped off just for him, took out his laptop and played a Chinese MMO called Magic World Online 2.
Now before everyone blasts this guy for wasting $15,000 when he could have used it for more practical gaming necessities, just think: If he could afford to drop 15K on something like this, he probably can afford to buy anything on whim. Heck, he probably already owns every gaming equipment out there, and already has the most epic gaming set-up installed in his gigantic gaming room. A set-up most of us can only dream of.
Check the break to see a video of the gamer in question playing on his $15,000 rental.
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It seems that limiting players a certain amount of hours of gameplay won’t be a problem in Final Fantasy XIV since its possible to see the entire design in a matter of minutes. Beta testers of the MMO are increasingly getting suspicious at why Square Enix would copy and paste the same design layouts over and over again through the entire FFXIV world. Is this simple proof that Square just can’t create interesting enough worlds that they’ve taken the lazy way out? It’s a shame to see such a company as this to take cheap development routes.
