There are a good number of juicy MMO and multiplayer gaming-related stories in the news today - so, let’s get right down to it.
First up is the dropping of the NDA for two MMOs; CHAMPIONS ONLINE and FALLEN EARTH (pictured left). Common Sense Gamer and Keen give their impressions of the CHAMPIONS Beta, both somewhat negative. BlackBoxBeta chats about FALLEN EARTH.
NCsoft have smiles for miles over AION’s “Gold” status and progression into the manufacturing stage.
And now that AION is set to launch on Sept. 22nd - it looks like details for NCsoft’s GUILD WARS 2 are about to be revealed after two years of silence. Timing is everything.
Eurogamer have the second and final part of their excellent “Making of WORLD OF WARCRAFT” article.
In related Blizzard news - fresh STARCRAFT II: Wings of Liberty single-player details and video have appeared and they are quite delicious to behold.
Last, but not least - APB will be subscription free and Bethesda says there won’t be any more downloadable content for FALLOUT 3. Stick a fork in it - it’s done!
“BlackBoxBeta’s Fallen Earth Impressions: One thing we really approved of in the short time we’ve been playing is the huge level of customisation for you character, it’s been done very smoothly and looks slick; we love seeing our character running about completely tooled up – you can hang a weapon off everywhere you can think of, leaving the average character looking like a low-budget Rambo.”