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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Preview

The hardcore RPG fan may have a new banner to rally around.

Starting life as an MMORPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has morphed into one of the more interesting original IPs to be released next year.  The game is being developed by industry newcomer 38 Studios and strategy game developer Big Huge Games.  These names may not carry much weight, but they have some serious big name talent working on Reckoning’s game world, most notably being revered fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and comic god Todd McFarlane who have created the game world and artwork respectively.  Lesser known, but still a heavy lifter in his own right, is Ken Ralston who was the lead designer on Morrowind and Oblivion.

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Japanese/Korean MMO Accidentally Deleted

Crucial code lost during maintenance brought the whole game down.

Players of the Japanese and Korean MMO M2 had a very bad day at the end of October. The end of the month also brought about the end of the game, when it was accidentally deleted after being taken down for maintenance.

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Star Trek Online Goes Free To Play

Free to Play? Make it so.

Cryptic Studios has announced that Star Trek Online will become free to play on January 17, 2011. This model has proved to be quite successful as Cryptic Studios' other MMO Champions Online has gone this route as well earlier this year.

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Lego Universe Shutting Down

The Lego based MMO is ending after a little over a year.

The Lego group has announced that Lego Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012. The MMO developed by Play Well Studios has around two million subscribers but has failed to reach enough revenue to make it profitable. This shut down comes after the title was released 15 months ago. The 115 people who work on the game will be laid off come the 2012 end date.

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Mists of Pandaria Details

Blizzard recently announced the latest expansion for World of Warcraft. We break down what's new so you don't have to.

There was a whole mess of announcements made at this past weekend’s BlizzCon.  There was the revelation of a sweet collector’s edition of Diablo III and the news that it’s possible to get a digital copy of the game for free, but the biggest deal was the official revelation of World of Warcraft’s 4th expansion: Mists of Pandaria.

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Phantasy Star Online 2 Delayed

The sequel to the popular Dreamcast game will now be available in 2012.

Sega has announced the Phantasy Star Online 2's release date as been postponed. Originally supposed to be available this year, the PC game will now be released in 2012.

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PixlTalk Episode 32, Side B: 2.0 Launch Special

Side B of our 3 sided launch extravaganza includes talk of level 100 carrots, MMO failures and bitching about 3D, micro transactions and everything in between

In the second part of our PixlTalk 2.0 launch series, Nate hosts with Matt R, Stanton and Jason H sitting in for a talk concerning modern gaming.

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Ragnarok DS Review

The MMORPG has been transformed into a DS RPG. Did the game transition well?

Ragnarok DS is a title based on the internationally known, Ragnarok Online. It's namesake began in 2002, based on mostly Norse mythology, providing, at a cursory glance, typical MMORPG play through a 3D world with 2D characters. Ragnarok DS borrows from Ragnarok Online in virtually every significant way, from character design and classes to enemies, combat systems, and special abilities. Unfortunately, though, in removing the MMO aspects of Ragnarok Online, Gravity seems to have forgotten how to optimize Ragnarok DS's DS capabilities.

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APB Beta Starting Next Week

As confirmed by Realtime Worlds CEO, Gary Dale.

In a recent report on GamesIndustry.biz, Realtime Worlds CEO, Gary Dale confirmed that the beta for APB is coming next week.

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