Archive for May, 2010
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Britain’s leading business network, GameHorizon rolls out the big guns for the definitive conference of the summer.
Former Creative Director of Disney Imagineering, Jesse Schell has been named as one of the top speakers for the 2010 GameHorizon Conference taking place at The Sage , Gateshead over June 29 -30. Schell, one of the masterminds behind child-friendly virtual world, Toontown Online joins gaming canons: Nils Holger Henning, COO of browsed-based behemoth, Bigpoint; self-publicist and Britsoft games industry legend, Peter Molyneux; and P!NK’s drummer, Mark Schulman. All will bang the drum about the exhilarating future of the industry and offer something unique to a conference program bursting with unmissable characters and touch-points.
Schell is an engaging speaker with genuinely thought-provoking ideas about where the games industry is going and how games will enrich and change our everyday lives. Shcell is also a cracking games designer and author of “The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses”. Schell’s talk, “Roadmap to the Gamepocalypse”, will delve into the details of how games and reality are likely to mix in the near future, and what that means for designers. (more…)
Tags: bigpoint, conference, disney, eidos, epic games, gamehorizon, kuju, pizza, world cup
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
This month’s issue of Thirteen1 gaming magazine is absolutely packed with top quality features!
Our DrunkenGamer has been on a gaming binge of epic proportions this month, starting with a tour of “Chapter III – The Elder Kingdoms“, the upcoming expansion for Frogster’s free-to-play MMO Runes of Magic, and culminating in a massive 8-page interview with Blizzard legend Tom Chilton!
The lovable inebriate even found time to traverse the desolate wastelands of Fallen Earth, courtesy of a tour with the game’s senior designer, but not before hacking his way through Rising Star’s top Wii slasher, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle..
As if that wasn’t enough, he also managed to takeover his own version of browser-based mafia MMO, Omerta. Aptly dubbed the “Deathmatch” version, the DrunkenGamer will be using his MMO knowledge to spruce it up with his own ideas of how a game should work.
Our prediction – Omerta is about to see a whole lot of violence…
April saw the guys at Exor Studios release the brand new “Slaughter Mode” DLC for Zombie Driver, their bargain priced indie hit. Anyone who adds 50% more content to a game for free deserves some loving, so we got behind the wheel of the undead-basher again to see how the game has improved since launch.
If the sight of zombie limbs flying everywhere isn’t your thing, we suggest you check out the colourful universe of Allods Online, gPotato’s ’space-opera’ MMORPG, which finally gets it’s formal T1 review. Alternatively, if you’re after something a little more artsy-fartsy (we’re all about class), we definitely recommend you look into unique, hand-painted point-and-clicker, The Whispered World..
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Tags: Allods Online, Bloodline Champions, Cataclysm, Chapter III, Competitions, DrunkenGamer, Elder kingdoms, Fallen Earth, Kingdom Heroes, Metal Gear Solid, mmo, Mount and Blade: Warband, Music Reviews, My Forever Puppy, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Omerta, Resident Evil 4, Runes of Magic, The Whispered World, Tom Chilton, World Of Warcraft, WOTLK, Zombie Driver
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Tags: Allods Online, Bloodline Champions, Cataclysm, Chapter III, Competitions, DrunkenGamer, Elder kingdoms, Fallen Earth, Kingdom Heroes, Metal Gear Solid, mmo, Mount and Blade: Warband, Music Reviews, My Forever Puppy, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Omerta, Resident Evil 4, Runes of Magic, The Whispered World, Tom Chilton, World Of Warcraft, WOTLK, Zombie Driver
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Excited about “Chapter III – The Elder Kingdoms”, the upcoming expansion to top free-to-play MMORPG, Runes of Magic? So are we!
That’s why, in Issue 24 of Thirteen1, we offered you the opportunity to send your own questions to the guys at Frogster.
We planned on putting the answers in Issue 25, but Frogster were so busy working on the game that they couldn’t get them back to us in time. Lucky we have this fancy new website, eh.
Thomas Elz, Senior Product Manager at Frogster, eventually managed to find time in his busy schedule to tend to your questions, so here they are – the answers to the questions that you wanted to ask. Enjoy!
Chapter 3 will add new zones, but will any changes be made to the Chapter 1 & 2 zones to help progress the overall world story?
After the fall of the Demon Lord at the end of Chapter II, “Runes of Magic – The Elder Kingdoms” opens a completely new chapter. The expansion will take you to the whole new continent of “Zandorya”, where the old kingdom Dalanis lies in chaos. Conspirators are scheming behind the throne of the young king Callaway, and it is up to the you to help the king restore order to his kingdom.
You can expect vast new regions, new guild features – such as guild drill grounds and new guild quests, an updated skill system, an expanded monster card system, several new dungeons and an increase in the level cap (to 60). With the main release of Chapter III in May, we will implement 9 different types of siege weapons for the guild wars between guild castles.
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Tags: Chapter 3, Elder kingdoms, frogster, minigames, mmo, Q&A, readers, Runes, Runes of Magic
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
UK based games software publisher, The Game Creators encourage independent games developers the world over to create and self-publish games for platforms like the Intel App Store using their accessible game creation software, DarkBasic Professional and DarkGDK.
With user-friendly game creation software, DarkBasic Professional and flagship game development package, DarkGDK, The Game Creators provide the necessary tools and support for the growing ranks of games development enthusiasts to create quality content with a reach in the millions. Intel’s new digital platform, AppUp Store, bundled with millions of Intel powered Netbooks, is being projected to rival the magnetism of Apple’s App Store, and will enable creators to accelerate brand recognition and monetise their own games.
Independent gamers can also publish their original creations through The Game Creators pipeline – perfect for those new to Intel’s submission process. The Game Creators bring an unrivalled experience in the development of sticky games on multiple platforms, from testing and building a robust application, to marketing the product effectively. This paternal support will inspire new entrants to games development with the confidence to achieve success.
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
It’s been a while since we last checked in with the guys over at Champions Online, and it looks like a lot of interesting things have happened while we were busy elsewhere.
If you ask us, it’s a perfect excuse to have a catch up chat with the game’s new Executive Producer – Shannon Posniewski.
How are things going with the game, now that the dust of launch has well and truly settled?
Launch went well, though you might remember us having a rocky time in February when we made a big game update. Now things are running great. A huge content update, “Revelation”, launched a few weeks ago and went very smoothly. We are now in a pretty good rhythm, fixing bugs, adding features, and creating content.
You’re now at the helm of Champions Online. How has the changeover, from Bill Roper to yourself, affected the project?
The biggest change is due to where we are in the lifecycle of Champions. We’ve launched and made a big content update. Now we’re focusing on systems that our players feel need to be improved. For example, it was hard to team up and keep teamed up, so we’re updating a variety of things on that front. I’m also trying to get into a steady cadence of updates for Champs. Every month-to-six-weeks, we plan on having an update. Every other update will be quality of life and system updates. The other updates will be Adventure Packs.
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Tags: champions online, CO, cryptic, mmo, revelations, Shannon Posniewski
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
Funcom just released the launch trailer for ‘Rise of the Godslayer’, the first expansion for the highly acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’.
The launch trailer gives a unique look into the many locations, characters and monsters that players will be able to meet and experience when the expansion launches online and as a part of an updated package in retail on May 11th.
Tags: age of conan, AOC, conan, funcom, godslayer, launch, mmo
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Proof that modern warfare takes place in the courtroom…
Over the past few weeks, it has slowly been leaking out about how key member’s of Infinity Ward have been leaving the company. Many people interested in the gaming industry have been paying close attention to this, as it seems like something big either has, or was, going to happen. They were right, as it has emerged that IW have had a lawsuit filed against them in the Los Angeles Supreme Court, by staff that worked on the second instalment of Modern Warfare. (more…)
Tags: Activision, Infinity Ward, Modern Warfare 2
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
TQ Digital confirm Asian closed beta for Heroes of Might and Magic Online to commence May 7th
TQ Digital have confirmed that their anticipated MMO, Heroes of Might and Magic Online, licensed by renowned publishers Ubisoft, will be entering it’s Asia area closed beta on May 7th.
Fans of Heroes of Might & Magic, one of the most loved PC-franchises of the last 15 years, can finally take their adventure to the MMO space on May 7th with Heroes of Might and Magic Online, developed under the careful study of established china-based online games developer, TQ Digital.
With millions of players already habiting their other titles, including such well known names as Eudemons Online and Conqueror Online, TQ Digital have had a wealth of expertise to call on while crafting a playing experience based around the wants and needs of the series’ loyal fans. (more…)
Tags: Heroes of Might and Magic, MMORPG, TQ Digital
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
The year(s) ahead…
It’s all well and good celebrating a couple of years of existence, as we have a little too rigorously since the launch of the latest issue, but we’re too greedy to have it all stop there. T1 is the type of publication that demands forward-thinking, improvements to the design, a pro-active approach, an idea that’s ‘edgy’, an [insert generic management term here..we recommend you use the word 'pop'].
You get the picture.
There’s plenty to look forward to in the world of Thirteen1, thanks to this result of busy behind-the-scenes efforts by hard working developers, designers and volunteers a-like. We’re talking, of course, about our newfangled website. It’s a better format for covering games on a daily basis, has everything we need to deliver the best gaming news alongside the magazine, and basically comes with more bells and whistles attached than that smug kid’s bike you always wanted. (more…)
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Former Creative Director of Disney Imagineering, Jesse Schell has been named as one of the top speakers for the 2010 GameHorizon Conference taking place at The Sage , Gateshead over June 29 -30. Schell, one of the masterminds behind child-friendly virtual world, Toontown Online joins gaming canons: Nils Holger Henning, COO of browsed-based behemoth, Bigpoint; self-publicist and Britsoft games industry legend, Peter Molyneux; and P!NK’s drummer, Mark Schulman. All will bang the drum about the exhilarating future of the industry and offer something unique to a conference program bursting with unmissable characters and touch-points.
