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Découvrez la Mise à jour 5 en avant-première – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 23rd
Découvrez la Mise à jour 5 en avant-première
Les gangs de Tarantia, la 5ème mise à jour majeure dAge of Conan, est la plus importante et la plus influente à ce jour. Voyez pourquoi
La Mise à Jour 5 napporte pas seulement des heures et des heures de nouveau contenu grâce à sa nouvelle région, elle change aussi fondamentalement les systèmes de jeu pour rendre celui-ci plus agréable, passionnant et enrichissant.
Nous vous proposons de découvrir en avant-première les grandes lignes des « Gangs de Tarantia » sur les sites suivants :
- Mondes Persistants
- MMORPG.COM (Anglais)
- INCGamers.com! (Anglais)
Update 5 Preview: "Gangs of Tarantia" – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 23rd
Update 5 Preview: “Gangs of Tarantia”
Gangs of Tarantia, the fifth major update for Age of Conan, is the biggest and most influential update done to the game since launch. Lets take a look at why.
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Not only does Update 5 add several hours worth of new content thanks to the new game region, it also makes fundamental changes to the core systems of the game that will make gameplay even more fun, exciting, and rewarding. These changes significantly improve how the plays and the rewards available for game-play. This update has been designed to deal with the remaining significant issues both players and developers alike had identified with the game at launch.
Catch the full preview on Update 5: "Gangs of Tarantia" on MMORPG.COM and INCGamers.com!
Jarle Snertingdalen Interview: Update 5 – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 23rd
Jarle Snertingdalen Interview: Update 5
MMORPG.COM features a new internal Q&A with Associate Producer Jarle Snertingdalen on the upcoming system changes with Update5.
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Update 5 is around the corner and Jarle Snertigndalen reveals some light on some of the system changes on the way including item changes, character statistic changes, and more.
"Question: Why did the team want to change the items and statistics system?
Jarle Snertingdalen: While there were several reasons for changing the items and the statistics system, the most important one was that we wanted to increase the contribution to character power from items. One of the goals pre-launch was for Conan to not be an item-centric game, but we quickly discovered that we had taken that vision too far.
Items are the most important source for rewards in the game, and it is obviously not exciting to get rewards that don’t really mean much to your character. As such we decided to do something about it. Update five will get the item centricity to the level where we want it to be, meaning the game is still far from being item-centric, but items will now play a much more important part. If you, for example, receive a More >
Per Storløkken Interview: Update 5 – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 23rd
Per Storløkken Interview: Update 5
IncGamers caught up with Per Storløkken, Associate Producer on Age of Conan, to find out more about the upcoming Update 5.
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Per discusses the direction and influences of the upcoming content in Tarantia Commons for the next mega-update to Age of Conan.
"What is your favorite aspect of the new Tarantia Commons content?
I enjoy the rooftop combat, because after having died a couple of times you start worrying as much about your escape route as you do about whats in front of you. Its a nice change of pace.
Double crossing the gangs is fun the childish glee of doing something bad and successfully blaming someone else for it.
Weve also tried to give people some, should we say, unethical options to resolve their business with some of the NPCs. Sometimes being unethical has its own amusing little side-effect…"
You can find the full interview featured exclusively on Incgamers.com!
Lord of the Rings Online: Is LotRO Art?
Jun 23rd
MMORPG.com Lord of the Rings Online Correspondent Andrei Hamagea writes this article looking at the video game as an art form.
In a recent mainstream gaming magazine, I came across an article trying to prove why games, in general, are not art. During my time with both the gaming world and art school, I have seen the two overlap numerous times yet to this day modern art in general can stir up some pretty heated conversations and disagreements. In one of my previous articles, A Look at the Looks of LOTRO, I gave a summary of why I think this MMO stands out, however I never touched upon its reflection of some artistic vision. As a result, I wanted to follow up and provide some arguments surrounding the intent, procedure and outcome these artists and developers consider before hitting the public with a massive MMO production. These people not only work years making the pieces that shape up a MMO, but have to predict interactions and user generated content that might come of it, much like an exhibition in a gallery. It is in a way a study, fueled by us the players, in which the artist conceives his work based More >
Warhammer Online: Rise of the Tomb Kings Live Event Winners!
Jun 23rd
As the Rise of the Tomb Kings Live Event draws to a close today, we’ve had Dwarfs and Goblins working around the clock, tallying Expedition Resource Points, and determining the winning Realm on each server. It was very a close competition, with the lead swapping back and forth from one Realm to the next several times throughout the duration of the Live Event. The Realm that wins early access to the Land of the Dead content will have one day of uninterrupted time in the Necropolis of Zandri (this does not include the Tomb of the Vulture Lord).
When the servers come back up today, the winning Realm will be able to fly to the Necropolis of Zandri via the Flight Master in their capital city. Expedition Resources will drop during this early access period, but you cannot turn them in—they will expire. The early access will end tomorrow at approximately 10:00 AM EDT, at which point players will be able to turn in Expedition Resources to the Expedition Resource Quartermasters once again, and control of the Land of the Dead will be up for grabs!
Without further ado, here are our winners! Congratulations everyone!
- Badlands – Order
- Dark Crag – Order
- Darklands More >
Avance de la Actualización 5 en Vandal.net – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 23rd
Avance de la Actualización 5 en Vandal.net
La gente de Vandal.net han tenido la oportunidad de echar un vistazo a las novedades de la próxima gran actualización de Age of Conan.
Han realizado un avance resumiendo las novedades de la que será la mayor actualización que ha sufrido Age of Conan desde su lanzamiento.
Podéis ver el avance completo en Vandal.net
Artículos recientes
- [10.11.2009] – ¡Ofertas especiales de suscripción y doble PX en noviembre!
- [30.10.2009] – Carta del Director de Juego – Octubre 2009
- [26.10.2009] – Newsletter: Las noches de las almas perdidas
- [25.10.2009] – Nuevos precios de suscripción para Age of Conan
- [16.10.2009] – La Noche de las Almas Perdidas
Dev Blog: Piece of the 1.05 Update – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 23rd
Dev Blog: Piece of the 1.05 Update
This week we sneak just a little piece of the next mega-update on the RPG overhaul.
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We took a small gander at some of the changes making their way into the next update with a blog article on some of the character statistic changes. You can find this article and previous articles on our official blog ’Message from the King’ exclusively on MMORPG.COM
Ganadores de la Competición del Foro por el 1er Aniversario de Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures
Jun 22nd
Ganadores de la Competición del Foro por el 1er Aniversario de Age of Conan
Por fin podemos anunciaros a los recompensados por la competición del foro por el primer aniversario de Age of Conan.
Tras mucho deliverar, de entre todos los participantes a nivel mundial, cuatro fueron los españoles que aceptaron el reto de intentar hacerse con uno de los premios de la competición del foro por el primer aniversario de Age of Conan. Uno en la categoría de arte conceptual y los otros tres en la de videos. Finalmente hemos decidido premiar a los cuatro con el premio de un avatar y título personalizados en el foro.
Sin más dilación compartimos con todos vosotros sus nombres por categorías:
Arte conceptual
Samayal
Videos
Neddam
Jastro
Farawan
Para obtener vuestro premio tenéis que contactar con Gungnir, responsable de la comunidad española, via mensaje privado del foro facilitando vuestro avatar personalizado y el título que queréis tener. ¡Enhorabuena!
Artículos recientes
- [10.11.2009] – ¡Ofertas especiales de suscripción y doble PX en noviembre!
- [30.10.2009] – Carta del Director de Juego – Octubre 2009
- [26.10.2009] – Newsletter: Las noches de las almas perdidas
- [25.10.2009] – Nuevos precios de suscripción para Age of Conan
- [16.10.2009] – La Noche de las Almas Perdidas
Final Fantasy XIV: Rumor: Could Beta Begin This Fall?
Jun 22nd
According to a discovery by the newly launched Eorzeapedia, Square Enix will be hiring Game Masters this September, potentially in anticipation of a beta test beginning this Fall.
Of course, take this all with a grain of salt, it is, for the moment, just speculation. There are some facts that lend credibility to the rumor though. There is the fact that the game is slated to launch in 2010 and that Square Enix has stated they want a longer beta test than FFXI had (which was only 3-4 months).
Find out more info on Final Fantasy XIV, here.