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World of Warcraft Quests: By The (Insane) Numbers

By Nick Breckon and Chris Faylor, Mar 26, 2009 5:26pm PDT

digg_url = 'http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57891'; digg_title = 'this text can not have a quotemark'; It wasn't all mistakes and regrets...

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"I must point out the irony that most of these posts and the article itself proves about ..."

- SirXena see all 35 comments

Lead Blizzard Dev Outlines 9 WoW Quest Problems, Admits to Designing Stranglethorn Quest

By Nick Breckon and Chris Faylor, Mar 26, 2009 4:42pm PDT

With a scant 40 minutes to address the gathered masses, former World of Warcraft director Jeffery Kaplan had a lot to cover in his "The Cruise...

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"Kaplan's always had a dysfunctional view of MMOs in general and WOW specifically. He wants to ..."

- Eindrachen see all 94 comments

Blizzard Details Secret World of Warcraft 'Progressive Percentage' Item Drop Mechanic

By Nick Breckon, Mar 26, 2009 4:06pm PDT

Former World of Warcraft lead designer and current next-gen Blizzard MMO director Jeffrey Kaplan today detailed a behind-the-scenes system of drop...

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"Maybe you like doing the same thing over and over and over again, but if I'm eg. making an alt ..."

- yuried see all 28 comments

Champions Online Testers Poached From Rival

By Chris Faylor, Mar 20, 2009 9:07am PDT

Cryptic Studios has confirmed that it recruited players for the now-underway Champions Online closed beta from super-powered rival City of Heroes...

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"I love how developers cater to consoles with a PC market game. I have a bad feeling about this ..."

- YummiGummi see all 19 comments

'Marvel Universe' MMO Coming to PC, Consoles

By Chris Faylor, Mar 17, 2009 7:35am PDT

Following yesterday's surprise revelation of a ten-year MMO licensing agreement between comic publisher Marvel and relatively unknown game...

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"For me anything for Marvel on the PC i am totally in. Hope MUA 2 makes it to PC."

- Maherr see all 63 comments

Marvel, Gazillion Sign Exclusive 10-year MMO Deal

By Nick Breckon, Mar 16, 2009 6:50pm PDT

Lego Universe publisher Gazillion Entertainment has signed an exclusive 10-year deal with Marvel to develop its comic book properties into...

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"Depends on what you mean by instance. If you mean for the purpose of doing missions? I've been ..."

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Funcom Readying The Secret World Reveal

By Chris Faylor, Mar 10, 2009 7:49am PDT

Nearly two years after the game was first announced, Age of Conan and The Longest Journey developer Funcom is ready to be "a little less secret"...

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"They haven't realized anything they just released a patch that completely ruined their graphics ..."

- shackzilla see all 48 comments

World of Warcraft Director Leaves Popular Game, Moving on to Blizzard's Next MMO

By Chris Faylor, Feb 12, 2009 2:29pm PST

Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has left his post as the director of the popular PC MMO World of Warcraft in order to help out with the company's...

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"That would be PlayerSkill+Ping... which amounts to much the same thing as a dice roll. ..."

- Apathy Curve see all 73 comments

Breaking: EVE Online Goonfleet Espionage Leads to Largest Corporation Takeover in History

By Nick Breckon, Feb 04, 2009 10:24pm PST

In what may be the most significant case of in-game espionage in history, one of the largest guild of players in CCP's spaceship MMO EVE Online,...

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"it was the corp igneus auctorita that brought the BoB director over (haargoth). not goonfleet. ..."

- giacomo_carissimi see all 190 comments

Capcom, MMO Developer Partner on Secret Project

By Chris Faylor, Jan 21, 2009 10:17am PST

Capcom today announced that it will publish an unannounced multi-platform title from massively multiplayer online game developer Monumental Games...

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"Rival Schools had a character creation mode that developed your character throughout a whole ..."

- NeoChaosX see all 13 comments

Zork Revived as Casual MMO

By Chris Faylor, Jan 14, 2009 9:39am PST

Sad that you haven't been eaten by a grue lately? Then I've got some (maybe) good news for you. Zork, the classic PC adventure series, will...

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"Saddly I remember good times playing this game. Saddly I remember good times playing MUDD's ..."

- bld see all 34 comments

Worlds Claims MMOs Infringe 'Virtual Space' Patent, Sues NCsoft

By Chris Faylor, Dec 29, 2008 2:58pm PST

Self-described pioneer in "3D virtual communities and rich immersive environments" Worlds has sued MMO publisher and developer NCsoft for...

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"The patent system is pretty flawed. I think they'll grant a patent on just about anything ..."

- ieGod see all 42 comments

Bisexual Women Surprisingly Prevalent in MMOs, Suggests Study

By Shack Staff, Dec 23, 2008 10:57am PST

Following a recent EverQuest II survey that suggested MMO players were sad but not overweight, another study has found that females and bisexuality...

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"thy have wangers and bum beards, not so exy, also they are male ugg"

- alalkoolj see all 41 comments

Job Recruiters Avoiding World of Warcraft Players

By Chris Faylor, Dec 16, 2008 1:18pm PST

While some studies have found that players of massively multiplayer games are instilled with business leadership skills, some job recruiters are...

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"Wow.... great story. :) So you honestly think the guy was scamming companies and didn't have ..."

- Gwyndion see all 126 comments

Dungeon Keeper Revived in MMO Form

By Chris Faylor, Dec 01, 2008 8:05am PST

Bullfrog's classic and sadistic PC strategy series Dungeon Keeper is being resurrected in the form of a massively multiplayer online role-playing...

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"Is this like playing a character from "City of Villains", where you have to grind as much as ..."

- yes4me see all 53 comments