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Shadowbane Scrumptions

Undecided about this PvP-oriented MMORPG? Think Star Wars Galaxies or Dark Age of Camelot might be more your style? The official Shadowbane page released two new elven movies showing off Crouching Tiger-type martial arts moves (though not as good as…

Auras of Anarchy

If the game Interstate ’76 had been an MMORPG it might have looked like this shot from Anarchy Online, one of three new pixel captures at the gaming mega-site PC.ign. In other AO news, Gibme.com produced a short but sweet…

Scripts Enough?

Gamer asks if the current format of NWN is flexible enough to expand indefinitely on: Have read through a few of the posts here and didn’t see anything on this, so if this is a repeat question forgive me. How…

NWN Interview with Aidan Scanlan

Lost Universe has posted up an interview with the Neverwinter Nights designer Aidan Scanlan. It’s pretty short and doesn’t cover much new material for anyone following the game daily, but it’s still a good read to keep your anticipation up…

Ultima Online: Third Dawn Gone Gold

For all of you UO players, Origin has announced that Ultima Online’s new expansion, Third Dawn, has gone gold and will be shipping on March 27th. Third Dawn adds more land to explore, new features, and a revised interface.

Question of the Day Update

Today’s answer to the “Question of the Day” reinforces the fact that the IWD development team is indeed working on a new, unannounced project. Here’s the question: What projects are the Icewind Dale team working on now? Did some of…

Possible delay

A Swiss gaming site alleges that Pool of Radiance will not hit the stores before June. The cause for the latest delay would be the recent takeover of SSI by UbiSoft. For those of you that understand German you can…

Star Wars Galaxies 5th Race Revealed

The subject line says it all. Verant, creators of the upcoming MPMMORPG (that’s massively popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game), Star Wars Galaxies, unveiled the fifth playable race out of eight. Want a hint? Think… big fish heads. The artists…

Arcanity Interview

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard PR from this open-ended MMORPG but GameSpot conducted a 2 page interview with Brick House Trading’s Jason Jacobitz today detailing a variety of aspects of their game Arcanity… such as this on features: Q:…

Points Once Again

Gamer is once again concerned about the 25 point limit: The 25 point-but system seriously penalizes monks, who lose their special abilities when they wear armor and are reliant on their wisdom and dex bonuses for most of their armor…