MMO Roundup: Last week on Massively
by Shawn Schuster 
Jun 30th 2009 at 8:30AM
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Mythic employees shocked at Mark Jacobs' departure Mythic employees were surprised by their boss' departure, sources told me today. I spoke with a former employee, who asked to remain anonymous, about what they and their old co-workers thought regarding today's announcement that Mark Jacobs, the vice president and general manager of EA Mythic, will be leaving the company due to a new partnership with BioWare. |
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Australian network filtering promises to reach out to block games, online games and more Australian Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has promised to extend Australia's proposed network-level content filtering regime to block games, online games, downloadable games, and websites that sell or allow download of games that are deemed not to be suitable for a 15-year-old audience. This, despite research by the IEAA (the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia) that the average age of Australian Gamers is 30. |
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Highlights from the SOE Fan Faire 2009 community address Sony Online Entertainment Fan Faire 2009 is happening in Las Vegas, and of course they've had a number of things to unveil so far. SOE president John Smedley gave his community address last evening, and other speakers made an appearance as well. We've got a few highlights from SOE Fan Faire 2009 for you: |
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Massively Exclusive: 5 million accounts, vehicles & more in FusionFall This past January, Cartoon Network launched their first foray into the MMO space with the wildly successful FusionFall, offering families who like to game together a great deal at $9.95 a month for up to four separate MMO accounts. Since those exciting first days of launch, they've given away all manner of funky swag, racked up over 5 million accounts, and started a whole new generation of explorers down the road of MMO enjoyment. |
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City of Heroes Issue 15: Anniversary goes live It was only a few weeks ago that we wrote about the City of Heroes Issue 15 beta testing, but this latest update to the game, Anniversary, has gone live. Issue 15 brings a host of improvements to City of Heroes particularly in terms of hero and villain character customization. There are 20 new character faces to choose from, two new costume sets, and costume change emotes, which provide flashy transitions between costumes for your characters. |
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Lord of the Rings Online coming to China later in the year Lord of the Rings Online is coming to China later in the year, thanks to CDC Games and their partnership with Turbine. CDC Games is one of the largest online gaming distributors in China, and is said to be a pioneer in the 'free-to-play, pay for merchandise' business model in that country. |
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Star Wars Galaxies producer says new changes could make it the "best year ever" Today marks the six-year anniversary of Sony Online Entertainment's epic MMORPG, and throughout the past six years, the game's seen a lot of changes. In an exclusive e-mail interview with lead producer Chris Field, he told us about the challenges of working on a six year-old game, their ongoing process of integrating fan feedback and what we can expect for SWG going forward. Hint: it's not going away anytime soon. |
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Global Agenda closed beta to begin in July Hi-Rez Studios just updated their Answer Center with new Global Agenda beta information. The game is expected to move to a Closed Beta phase this July. Global Agenda has been in Alpha testing for a number of months now. |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
CMC Jun 30th 2009 12:53PM
"Sometimes you'd like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right?"
I think the only ones who really don't pay attention to this fact are the fanboi bloggers who write for this site and are so addicted to this game they can't fathom the idea of playing another MMO.
Murdax Jul 2nd 2009 10:32AM
I want to know persons point of view on the new game that ncsoft is schedualed to release on september 23, 2009 Aion the tower of eternity, how do you feel it compares to WoW and do you think that it might be a competition. due to the fact that many players are finding WoW to be boring and repetitive not to mention there hasn't been a change in the graphics engine. I mean their games have become some what repetative a new expansion comes out new creatures to kill new city to have a lag fest in and a few patches here and a few patches there nothing really new or what we have not seen before.