GamesRadar - Pirates of the Burning Sea

Pirates Of The Burning Sea Free To US Army (News)

Oct 28, 2009

Flying Lab Software is offering members of the US Army the chance to play the MMO, Pirates of the Burning Sea, for free.

The offer, open to all branches of the United States military, waives the $19.99 USD purchase price of the game and includes six months of free play, which usually sets players back $14.95 USD per month.

Flying Lab Software Announces Hiring Spree (News)

Sep 17, 2009

GamingShogun.com writes: "Flying Lab Software has announced that they are expanding to work on both the first expansion pack to their high seas-MMO, Pirates of the Burning Sea, called 'Power & Prestige' as well as continuing monthly-fixes for the existing title. You can head..."

PathEngine SDK Updated, Licensed for Project NATAL's Milo & Kate (News)

Aug 10, 2009

PathEngine has announced the release 5.21.00 of their pathfinding and agent movement SDK, with key features of the release being the addition of functionality for projecting 3D geometry to ground shapes, significant optimisation of pre-process data structures, and 3D content processing improvements. In addition, the team have also announced a licensing agreement with Monolith, and to Nexon for Nexon Star.

Pirates of the Burning Sea patches to version 1.16 (News)

Jul 2, 2009

Jaime Skelton writes: "A huge patch has been applied and gone live for Pirates of the Burning Sea today. Here are the patch notes. . ."

Steam Drops MMO Prices This Weekend (News)

Jun 12, 2009

Steam has marked down MMORPGs from 20-75% off. Not only that, but they still come with a free month of play, meaning trying out games like Age of Conan and Everquest II will only cost about $10.

Skirmish warfare coming to Pirates of the Burning Sea (News)

Feb 20, 2009

BurningSea:

"I'm pleased to have the opportunity to introduce a long-awaited feature that will be going live in patch 1.14: the skirmish system! This is the first completely new major game system we've introduced since launch, and we're giving it extra Testbed exposure. You'll be able to try out skirmish on Testbed as early as the 1.13 release coming out this week. There's still a lot of polish work going into the system, so what you see on Testbed will change before it goes live. We'll be giving you more information on Testbed skirmish events in the near future."

MMORPG: Pirates of the Burning Sea : The Calling of Brawling (News)

Feb 15, 2009

MMORPG:

"In my original plan for avatar combat, there were two supplementary skill lines that any fighting school could take. For various reasons, we ended up having to cut one of those lines, leaving us with only the Black Powder optional skill line. Unfortunately, there was some functionality I really liked in the removed skill line; also, with only one optional line available, characters were by definition less diverse and less customizable."

Groundbreaking Mmo Library From Sony Online Entertainment Arrives On Steam (News)

Jan 16, 2009

EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes®M and Pirates of the Burning SeaTM Available Now.

Steam Gets a Couple of Sony MMOs (News)

Jan 16, 2009

Valve announced a deal with Sony to provide access to some MMOs through Steam. On the list: Everquest, Everquest 2, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, EQ Secrets of Faydwer and EQII Rise of Kunark.

Pirates of the Burning Sea Offers 14-Day Free Trial (News)

Dec 12, 2008

GamingShogun writes, "Flying Lab Software is offering a 14-day free trial to ex-players of their piratey MMO, Pirates of the Burning Sea. Since the game's launch back in January, Flying Lab Software says they have made significant updates and changes in the game to improve the overall player experience. See the Station Account website to take advantage of the trial offer..."

Pirates of the Burning Sea : Build 1.10.30 Release Notes (News)

Nov 26, 2008

FLS has posted the release notes for build 1.10.30.0 of Pirates of the Burning Sea. There's a lot of changes has been made.

Pirates of Burning Sea Sails Away From Bigpond (News)

Nov 7, 2008

Flying Lab CEO Russell Williams today announced on the official Burning Sea site that, as of January, the Bigpond-hosted Australian server for Pirates of the Burning Sea – Invincible - will be turned off. The team will be creating a new server, Defiant, to meet the needs of Australian players, with every player being given the opportunity to switch to the server of their choosing. He also mentioned that the company will be trying to attract more Australian players moving forward by expanding its advertising campaign to Australian web sites.

Pirates of the Burning Sea Offers Free Trial Keys, Infinite Bits Offers Pirate Booty (News)

Oct 2, 2008

Seattle's Flying Lab Software has just announced they will be giving away free 14-day trials to their award winning MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea to encourage new potential pirates to join their gaming community.

In honor of this announcement Infinite Bits will be giving away a veritable treasure chest of swag that Flying Lab so generously heaped upon IB's writers at PAX.

Pirates of the Burning Sea Trial Keys (News)

Sep 30, 2008

GamingShogun writes, "Flying Lab Software is handing out free 14 day trial keys for their pirates-MMO, Pirates of the Burning Sea. The game allows players to pillage the Spanish Main, completing quests and customizing their vessels along the way..."

Pirates of the Burning Sea gets major website revamp (News)

Sep 13, 2008

Team members at Flying Lab Software have launched a totally new Pirates of the Burning Sea website. The changes are not merely aesthetic; there are substantial additions in terms of functionality. They include a game guide, featured forum posts, and other standards. The site was designed not only by your usual web development folks, but also by the game's UI designer and its art director.

Lots of updates and parrots since the initial release of Pirates (News)

Aug 17, 2008

Destructoid writes: "There have been a significant amount of changes to Pirates of the Burning Sea since it was shown last year at Gen Con. There is now more dueling, new graphics and cities, more pillaging, and even more "piratical pets." I like parrots, to be honest, but I've always been afraid of how long they live. Could you imagine having to chill with a bird for your entire life, nonethless one that takes dumps on your shoulder for decades?

Aside from the nearly immortal status that parrots have among pirates, Flying Lab Software is prepping for their "Milestone 7" release at the end of this month. The most interesting change that isn't indicative of the game itself involves a day of the year I didn't know about. Apparently, September 19 is "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Flying Lab is celebrating that fact by adding new missions from the founders of the holiday, Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket. Venereal diseases and scurvy have yet to be confirmed, but I'll continue to do my job and investigate these pressing matters.

While I'm busy being prolific, feel free to hit the break to see all of the changes that have come and are coming to Pirates of the Burning Sea."

Pirates of the Burning Sea: New Pirate Careers (News)

May 13, 2008

The folks from Pirates of the Burning Sea have announced some details on the two new pirate careers that are available in the next update.

What went wrong with the Pirates MMO? (News)

Apr 17, 2008

Our buddies over at Next Generation have caught up with Flying Lab to discover the reason behind the recent closure of seven of 11 servers for its MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea and the resulting transfer of players to the remaining four (math is fun!).

"The server merge is a result of a combination of things. When we were looking at the number of servers to roll out, we had a lot of different criteria to look at. Some worked out just ...

Several Pirates of the Burning Sea Servers shut down, is this the beginning of the end? (News)

Apr 16, 2008

Pirates of the Burning Sea hasn't been available for too long, 3 months to be exact, but Flying Lab are already planning to downsize the amount of servers available to four from the eleven public servers that were available. This move is being made to consolidate the POTBS fanbase, so in other words there aren't as many subscribers as the developers originally expected.

Pirates of the Burning Sea Character Transfers are Now Live (News)

Apr 15, 2008

From the official Pirates of the Burning Sea site:

"When Pirates of the Burning Sea launched on January 22nd, we introduced our customers to 11 new game servers. Through feedback from our players and evaluation of our server populations, it has become clear that key game features require populations of higher density in order to function at optimum levels. When you take into account both the disparity in player time zones and the delayed launch of our title in some countries, we were spreading our overall population too thin. Also, in more recent builds, we were able to improve our server technology to allow for an even larger population than we were originally equipped to handle.

Providing our customers with the best game play experience is our first priority. Condensing our populations will lead to a richer, more vibrant game play experience for all involved, and our customers whole-heartedly agree. The character transfer option will not be available to our Australian customers on the Invincible server."

Pirates of the Burning Sea MMO trial invites (News)

Mar 25, 2008

TVGB: "..come the release of patch 1.2.xx, the game is ready for release. Two months after the street date, the game's polish is starting to arrive, the mechanics have been tweaked to allow for actual enjoyment of gameplay, and the oceans are alive with combat, ambush, rum and women."

Pirates of the Burning Sea gets its latest patch, ahoy there 1.2.67.0 (News)

Mar 18, 2008

Those scurvy developers over at Flying Lab Software today are moving their latest build from the test-bed to live servers. It contains numerous tweaks and fixes for the game with a full release of notes on their forums.

Patch Notes for Pirates of the Burning Sea Build 1.1.54.0 (News)

Feb 12, 2008

Differences between 1.0.48.4 and 1.1.54.0 include but aren't limited to: Character Creation / Customization:

Â¿ Some combinations of items and colors in character creation had a bug that prevented you from starting to play. When this happened, the game displayed a message box reading "Error_Generic". We have fixed the issues that caused this error and also changed the error to say something helpful should it happen again.
Â¿ The front of Female Vest (Merchant) is no longer invisible.
Â¿ Fixed LOD problems with the Female Coat (Elegant) and Female Vest (Frilled).
Â¿ Fixed males going bald in places at some LODs.
Â¿ Fixed several places where the wrong vests or shirts were coupled with certain coats and such.
Ships / Combat:

Â¿ Many players have not realized that some of your cargo is lost when you sink. This is because we never told them, so we've made some UI changes to make it clearer that unsecured cargo is lost when you sink. We added an explanation to the tooltips of these items, and also an overlay to their icons that, when you hover over it, gives a further explanation of unsecured cargo.
Â¿ Ship tuning: Added a small amount of target tracking to light guns.
Â¿ Ship tuning: Made small adjustments to target tracking, mainly on the mid to upper range ships. Most noticeable on the Raa.
Â¿ Ship tuning: Added a bit of max range accuracy to all guns
Â¿ Ship tuning: Added a small amount of mid-range accuracy to mid-heavy guns

Ship-shape future for Pirates MMO - User-created PvP challenges and more (News)

Feb 12, 2008

CVG Writes: Flying Labs CEO Russell Williams has told CVG that the developer had two years of new features for the game planned even before the game shipped a week or so back.

"We have new game systems, such as a Player Skirmish system where players can create their own structured PvP challenges, to new content, such as exciting new towns, missions, and big, elaborate challenges with highly customised content", Williams explained.

Stacking the game up against other MMOs out there, Williams said, "We focus more on player skill and tactics than on levels, we have a completely different combat system in the ships, and we have meaningful PvP where real world ports change hands. It's very different in feel, execution, and scope".

Free Pirates of the Burning Sea for Australians (News)

Feb 12, 2008

In a move that has the potential to not only shake up the MMORPG market, but the entire industry in Australia, BigPond have officially announced today that Pirates of the Burning Sea will be distributed free of charge to Australians when the game is released on 27th February.

Players who are interested in downloading or securing a copy upon release, are able to pre-register at BigPond's Game Arena website, where you'll be first in line to download, or secure one of the 100,000 DVD copies of the game. Players will then have a free seven day trial subscriptiuon with on-going subscriptions for the game starting from $15.95 per month. While you don't have to be with BigPond to play, members will receive a 20% discount off the on-going subscriptions of the game.

Pirates of the Burning Sea (Review)

Feb 6, 2008

This pirate-themed MMO has no truck with comedy voices, parrots, wooden legs, or curling your lip and growling “Yeargh!” at your guildmates. In the virtual Caribbean of Pirates of the Burning Sea, you’re more likely to talk about your new warehouse, a problematic 10% increase in your labour costs, or how the State is taxing your profits.You’ve got two modes of play to ‘enjoy’ - first, sword-fighting, which ...

Pirates of the Burning Sea Guide Comes with Free (Virtual) Parrot (News)

Jan 26, 2008

Kotaku reports: "Prima, the purveyors of game guides everywhere has announced that their latest guide for Flying Lab Software's new MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea will come with some freebies. The guide, which can be purchased at stores ($19.99) or downloaded digitally ($14.99) will include a code for an exclusive code for an in-game red parrot and the chance to win a limited edition 8"x10" high gloss ship print signed by the Flying Lab development team".

Pirate Ships Ahoy - Pirates of the Burning Sea (News)

Jan 23, 2008

The Pirates of the Burning Sea Website offers word that Flying Lab Software's MMORPG (also known as Pirates of the Burninating Sea in Trogdor) is now live. There is an explanation of how to activate your version of the game, whether it be the retail box, downloaded from Sony, or downloaded from another online store.

IGN: Yo Ho Ho! Pirates of the Burning Sea Sets Sail Today (News)

Jan 22, 2008

IGN writes: "Grab your parrot, raise the gang plank and ready the cannons with Pirates of the Burning Sea (PotBS), the hotly anticipated online PC game where players can clash on land and sea."

Pirates of the Burning Sea - Ship combat 01-22-08 (Video)

Jan 22, 2008

It could use more swash and less buckling, but an all-round fun pirate experience once you get your boat going.

Pirates of the Burning Sea ready to invade Scandinavia (News)

Jan 15, 2008

Stockholm, Sweden (January 15, 2008)Â¿ Paradox Scandinavian Distribution, in cooperation with Sony Online Entertainment LLC's Platform Publishing label and Flying Lab Software LLC announced today that the company will distribute Pirates of the Burning Sea in the Nordic countries. The hotly anticipated MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game, scheduled to launch worldwide on January 22, 2008, featuring high seas action and swashbuckling adventure in a bold world of pirates and plunder, is being developed by Seattle-based FLS and published by Platform Publishing.

Pirates of the Burning Sea - Character trailer 01-09-08 (Video)

Jan 9, 2008

It could use more swash and less buckling, but an all-round fun pirate experience once you get your boat going.

Sony to bring demos of upcoming MMOs to CES 2008 (News)

Dec 22, 2007

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is going to the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January in Las Vegas, Nevada. SOE is bringing along the demos for these upcoming MMOs: The Agency, Free Realms and Pirates of the Burning Sea. The demos are only available for the press. In addition, SOE will also bring some old favorites: Legends of Norrath, EverQuest, and EverQuest 2.

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Pirates of the Burning Sea ransacks open beta Friday (News)

Dec 5, 2007

Via Joystiq:

"Prepare to put on your black jumpsuit, brandish your katana, and stealthily engage the Pirates of the Burning Sea as it enters open beta beginning Friday. Sony Online Entertainment's swashbuckling adventure will technically be open only to FilePlanet subscribers on Friday, Dec. 7, with others receiving their invites during the week."

Pirates of the Burning Sea - In the Bermuda Triangle (Preview)

Oct 12, 2007

Oct 12, 2007 We just got our second look at Sony Online Entertainment's Pirates of the Burning Sea, and we are now officially excited to try it out. We didn't get any hands-on time with the world's first Pirate themed MMO this time, but we got to see two quests being completed, which showcased the supernatural elements of the game. You wont find any pirates shooting fireballs for five D20 worth of damage. The magic in the game is strictly in the realms of voodoo and ghostships - you know, ...

Pirates of the Burning Sea launch date (News)

Oct 6, 2007

Pirates of the Burning Sea set to sail worldwide January 22nd.

Pirates of the Burning Sea - Gameplay features 08-16-07 (Video)

Aug 16, 2007

It could use more swash and less buckling, but an all-round fun pirate experience once you get your boat going.

SOE picks up Pirates of the Burning Sea (News)

Jun 26, 2007

Sony Online Entertainment has agreed to publish MMOG Pirates of the Burning Sea. The game will be added to SOE's E3 lineup.

Trendsetters week 7: MMORPG (Feature)

Jun 1, 2007

The pioneer - Everquest | 1999 | PC The major drawback of RPGs is that in a world populated by millions, you are the only real person. Sure you can "talk" to NPCs, but there was no real interaction in the one genre that would benefit from it most. So the advent of MMORPGs was the natural step to bring gamers together, While some fondly remember Ultima Online, Everquest was the breakthrough that managed to unite gamers in droves and usher the modern MMORPG into the mainstream. By including ...

Pirates of the Burning Sea - hands-on (Preview)

Mar 16, 2007

Developer, Flying Lab Software is hoping to sink its hooks into the massively-profitable MMO market with Pirates of the Burning Sea. We scored some hands-on time with an early build of the game, and got a chance to sample the character creation and combat system. Youll get to swear allegiance to the English, French, or Spanish. Serving one of these nations works like a faction, and opens up three classes. You can defend your nations ports as a Naval Officer, engage in state sponsored piracy as ...

Pirates of the Burning Sea (Screenshots)

Mar 16, 2007