Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
.Travis “Rashere†McGeathy, Lead Designer of EverQuest has quit and announced a road trip across country to work on a new title. My only guess is 38 Studios. Seems like they could almost be SOE East if it’s true. Who’s next, Scott Hartsman?
UPDATE: Massively confirms it to be true.
Nerfbat makes it Official!
– Ethic
The Lord of the Rings Online Book 13 patch will be improving the LFG and quest log UIs, which I already felt was some of the best out there. Currently, when grouping it is easy to see what quests your other group members have. No need to ask what quests everyone has, just look at the quest UI and you can see an icon for each member with the quest.
In Book 13, they will be adding several new features and it looks impressive. Here are some of the highlights:
More prominent filtering options for your list of quests lets you look at just solo quests or just fellowship quests or just the quests you share with your fellowship members. We expanded shared quest status beyond just showing who has the same quest – we tell you where each member of your fellowship stands relative to you for each quest. You can see who among your fellows is behind, or ahead, or even done with the overall quest chain-easily find out who needs to get caught up so that you can tackle that instance or group challenge together. You can see when your fellowship members are ready to turn in a quest-much easier than spamming fellowship chat asking if everyone is done collecting 10/10 boar stomachs! Sharing a quest can now share earlier quests in the chain-if you’ve done a couple of quests in an epic book and your friends haven’t started, you can share the quest you are on and they will get the first quest in the chain! No more blind fellowship invites-when you’re invited, you see the name, level, class, and location of everyone in the fellowship. “Find A Fellowship” button comes in. It’s a new button on the Quest Log that works a little like the “Add to Tracker” button. You can mark one quest for Find A Fellowship. That automatically opens the Fellowing tab of the Social Panel and fills out all the relevant information. You’ll see a list of players who also want to work on that quest (and those players can now find you, too).
To top it all off, they are adding “Mustering Horns” at campsites across Middle-earth. These allow you to summon the distant members of the group to the campsite. Very nice, Book 13 is looking to be another excellent addition to an already satisfying (at least for this explorer) game.
– Ethic
I just wanted to help draw attention to Gamers For A Cure. I consider Shawn “Kwip” and Becky “Kwipette” best-friends-I’ve-never-actually-met. Kwip runs N3 aka Neenerneener.net. It is probably the first gaming related blog I ever read. His wife Kwipette has MS and every year those crazy folks all get together for the MS Walk to raise money to fight MS. If you want to help out, they are having an auction for some Warhammer Online shirts (thanks to Sanya Weathers). You can also donate money directly if you wish.
Shawn and Becky, I wish I could join you guys – but I hope this little bit helps. Good luck with the walk and take care!
– Ethic
I saw this at Ole Bald Angus the Monk’s site and had to share it. It is fantastic.
– Ethic
Richard Bartle has put up a pdf of his keynote presentation from the 2008 IMGDC for everyone’s enjoyment.
His 2007 Keynote is up as well in case you haven’t seen it.
– Ethic
I’m really looking forward to this!
BIRMINGHAM, UK – March 14, 2008 – Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online today unveiled Volume II of The Lord of the Rings Online, the first retail expansion for the award-winning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG). Announced in Birmingham, the childhood home of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria will expand the online world of Middle-earth to let players explore the ancient underground cities of the dwarves, battle epic characters in the depths, face off with the Watcher, be a part of the fateful release of Durin’s Bane and more! The Lord of the Rings Online expects to open Volume II of its epic story in the fall of 2008 with an increased level cap, two new classes and the introduction of a unique item advancement system.
“The Mines of Moria is one of the most epic settings in all of fantasy fiction,” said Jim Crowley, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. “No one delivers more quality content than Turbine and with our journey into Moria, we will raise the bar even higher. We are adding vast amounts of content, debuting massive new environments and unveiling numerous unique feature sets, like item advancement, which will create entirely new dimensions of compelling game play and social interaction which are unique to The Lord of the Rings Online experience.”
Read the rest at the official site.
Also, check out the Q&A over at Massively. Featured quote: “We’re completely rewriting and replacing the UI system…”
Massively also has concept art!
– Ethic
Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules with Don Kaye in 1974. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of the role-playing game.
On March 4th, the Associated Press confirmed reports of Gygax’s passing that originally were made by Troll Lord Games, a small role playing game company Gygax had been working with. He had been in poor health, suffering multiple strokes and a near-heart attack.
– Ethic
But they still have a few more to learn.
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One down, two to go.
– Ethic
