The fourth annual MMO Calendar, which raises funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is now on sale.
A video game company claims Atari breached a licensing agreement for it to develop a new form of "Dungeons & Dragons." Turbine, the plaintiff, develops and operates "massively multiplayer online role-playing games," or MMOs.
The free-to-play relaunch of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach now has a release date. Turbine has announced that Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited will go live on August 4th here in North America.
Turbine has released new information today on some of the new content coming to Dungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. Players can expect a new class, level cap raised to 20, and more.
Joystiq writes: "Yesterday, Turbine made a startling announcement that wowed penny-wise online gamers -- its D20 rollin' MMO, Dungeons and Dragons Online would receive a free-to-play edition with the subtitle Eberron Unlimited. There's just one caveat -- Unlimited is going live this summer in North America only. Codemasters confirmed the European exclusion in a statement, explaining "DDO Europe will not be assuming this new business model and the European DDO game service will remain a monthly subscription-based game."
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited (DDO Unlimited) is the free digital upgrade to DDO, the most exciting MMO with the best combat. DDO Unlimited raises the level cap to the natural D&D© limit of 20, introduces a new class, and makes subscriptions optional with unlimited free play. Set in the vast and dangerous online world of Eberron, gamers discover hidden treasure, pummel monsters, and look to evade traps left behind by an ancient race. By leveraging the most active, most realistic combat system of any online game, DDO Unlimited players deliver and feel every blow that goes into a baddie's demise.
GamingShogun.com writes: "Turbine has announced that D&D Online is going free-to-play with the new Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited upgrade. This upgrade will be released this Summer. If you are a current DDO subscriber you will be made a DDO VIP at launch which includes several benefits. Of course, if you are a non-paying customer you will have severe game limitations in the classes available to you as well as being locked out of using specific items but that comes with the..."
Turbine's provided a peek at some of the upcoming changes contained in Module 9 for Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Dungeon's & Dragon's Online players are getting two new things as of late: the free Module 9 update and a new executive producer by the name of Fernando Paiz. The update isn't out just yet, but its preview notes are and they're pretty substantial. Players are getting level 20, which brings tons of new feats and powers, along with DX10 graphics support, combat, UI and many other improvements.
Codemasters has released a new 10-Day free trial client for Dungeons and Dragons Online Stormreach, the first massively multiplayer online roleplaying game based on Wizard of the Coast's world renowned Dungeons & Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons Online Stormreach features authentic D&D characters, fast-paced combat, dangerous dungeons, authentic party-based D&D gameplay, and more.
Focus Home Interactive and Cyanide Studio have released the open beta client of Dungeon Party, a free MMOG in which two teams of up to 5 players compete over one or more rounds and victory is only assured when one of them gets out of the dungeon with the treasure. Players can choose from one of 6 character types and they can customise their hero with various items of clothing or other objects that might come in useful in a dark corner. Regular tournaments promise games of even greater intensity and will allow all players to measure themselves against the best, thanks to a real-time ranking system. Dungeon Party is slated for a Q1 2009 release.
When covering MMO's, the media tends to focus on the huge successes (World of Warcraft) or the notorious failures (Tabula Rasa). Between these two extremes, though, are many MMO's that are going strong despite journalists' neglect. One of them is Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, which is celebrating its third birthday.
IncGamers are reporting on whether racism is present within videogames and how class choices, especially in MMO games, can result in racism.
GamingShogun writes, "Turbine, Inc. today announced the launch of the latest update for players of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE®: Stormreach® (DDO), Prisoners of Prophecy. This major update to DDO delivers a completely upgraded experience for new players, improves solo play with the introduction of Hirelings, upgrades the DDO engine to support DX-10 graphics technology, and adds more monsters, spells, magic items, and challenging dungeons. Prisoners of Prophecy continues Turbine's commitment to delivering fun, engaging and exciting updates for players in its online worlds..."
Turbine has announced today the launch of its latest player update for D&D Online: Stormreach. The update, entitled Prisoners of Prophecy, brings a new experience system to players, introduces a new aid to solo play via Hirelings, and a big upgrade to the game engine which will now take advantage of DX-10. Here's the scoop:
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Turbine today announced the release date for the latest major content update for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, entitled The Way of the Monk. Players will be able to explore the all new and much larger Three-Barrel Cove wilderness and take part in new hand-crafted adventures, making this an exciting and challenging area. The update will be available from June 3rd.
The game Dungeons and Dragons, which was the inspiration behind most fantasy games including World of Warcraft, is finally going online. Yes, there is already Dungeons and Dragons Online by Atari, which is estimated to have around 100,000 subscribers worldwide, but this new game will not be anything like the MMORPGs we know and love, don't expect a fully interactive 3D world; the graphics will represent the tabletop game.
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (DDO) is celebrating its second anniversary! To mark this special occasion, Turbine are inviting the previous players to come and enjoy all of the new DDO content for free from March 5-11, 2008!