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Flying Lab Software invites you to play the award winning, swashbuckling, seafaring MMO with a free 14-Day Trial Key for Pirates of the Burning Sea, available at http://www.burningsea.com/pages/trialKeys!
 
“Our 14-day free trial program is an effort to give everyone a taste of Pirates of the Burning Sea game-play,” said Russell Williams, CEO of Flying Lab Software. “People [...]

Gametribe.com, the premier destination for Free-to-Play games is pleased to announce that Dream of Mirror Online (DOMO), the Free-to-Play social MMORPG, has received its second content update for August. This amazing update contains 3 brand new Special Edition Goodie Bags which will be placed into the games shop for a very limited time.
 
These rare Special [...]

Though the OPEN BETA will not begin until the 7th of September, you can get a head start on downloading the client if you Pre-Ordered WAR.  The OB client is available as of today!
 
To download, first you must register your Pre-Order Code at the official Mythic account management website.  Your Pre-Order code is either going [...]

From August 15th through August 18th (12 PM PT), Disney Online will host a Free Preview Weekend for Pirates of the Caribbean Online which will include:
 
? FREE Unlimited Access to the Caribbean - As the Spaniard Garcia de Avaricia and Frenchman Pierre le Porc fight for control of their territories, the battle in the Caribbean [...]

I know this isn’t game related - but it’s game rig related and it’s a real pain in the ass if you don’t know what to do.  Since I did my system rebuild yesterday (damn,  it’s sweet!) I figured I’d come in and share some of my hardships and how I fixed it just in [...]

 
Mythic Entertainment released a video today showing off what some of the Realm vs Realm and Siege warfare action is going to look like in WAR.  Just based on the scale of the combat and the amount of different things going on in the video - keeping things running smoothly performance wise is going to [...]

Too Human will be hitting store shelves sometime late next month, but as most of you know there is now a demo available on Xbox Live. How is it you may ask? Well it depends on what you expect from a game like this. Too Human is definitely different from a traditional RPG, it has [...]

 
 Sony Online Entertainment and DC Comics announced today at E3 DC Universe Online.  There really isn’t much available yet as far as game play type information.  The only thing I was able to take away from this is that a) it’s going to be an MMO based on the DC Universe, duh.  b) It’s goine [...]

While doing my usual browsing around today I found a cool little video some beta tester leaked out over YouTube.com showing the Storm Peaks in the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft.
 
Toward the end of the video, stay tuned for a sneak peak at what appears to be the city [...]

A week ago I got that special email from the makers of Mythos inviting me to join their closed beta playground. Initially I had to create an account with the usual stuff; user ID, password, email, and etc. No problems on that end registration was simple and didn’t require any credit card information. Next came [...]

The GameZig version of Google’s Lively is a good place to come and chat it up with GameZig bloggers and other gamers. We have a big screen up with some of the latest new game trailers and game footage playing and plenty of room for up to twenty people to come in and socialize. Bring [...]

Lively launched sometime yesterday and from all I’ve read pre-launch it was supposed to be Google’s version of Second Life.  I virtual world where players could explore real world environments and interact with other people.  This thing was supposed to redefine how people view and use the internet.
 
So far, bzzzzzzzzzzz.  That’s my buzzer sound.  I [...]

 
 
The first of dungeon to be announced by the Warhammer Online team is The Bastion Stair.  Both the Order and Destruction are drawn to this source of Chaos power.  The Order will be venturing into the twisted and torn landscape of the Chaos wastes to attempt to recover Myrmidia’s Spear - the only remaining artifact from [...]

 
 
Blizzard did a 180 turn on us and went from ice to fire to announce Diablo III: And the Heavens Shall Tremble.  The game will not be the next-gen MMO Blizzard has been working on, my bet is still on Starcraft for the theme of that title.  But that’s not to say Diablo III won’t [...]

It’s of course all just speculation and educated, or uneducated as the case may be, guessing.  But there are a few things we do know about the Blizzard trailer - most important of which is that this is a teaser for the announcement of an upcoming new game title from Blizzard.  That means what it [...]

Shot Online is hosting a set of four tournaments in the month of July.  The overall prize for first place is a full set of repairable Hurricane clubs while 2nd and 3rd walk away with a full set of non-repairable Hurricanes.
 
San Jose, Calif. (June 26, 2008) - San Jose-based online game publisher, Gamescampus.com (www.gamescampus.com, run [...]

If you’re looking for a bit of fun this weekend I’ve found something you may be interested in that’s off the beaten path.  The staff of writers, leads and columnists over at Massively.com are hosting their first get together being sponsored by SOE’s PlanetSide.  SOE will be letting players come in for free to join [...]

InfinityWard has released the next big patch for their Call of Duty 4 game for the PC.  Patch 1.6 features a few bug fixes and some much needed updates to the killcam. But what was even more needed is fresh content for this title and InfinityWard delivers with 4 new maps for COD4.
 
Chinatown:
 
A remake of [...]

Open beta for Rohan Blood Feud has begun and is already jam packed with testers, so much so that YNK Games has more than doubled their number of servers in the first few days of testing to accomodate the huge influx of fans and they promise to continue to increase capacity as demand also increases.  [...]

One of the longest running MMORPG’s is getting a much needed upgrade. Runescape, which is the successor to DeviousMUD, is a popular persistant online world that has been running since 2001 and has retained a respectable player base, due in large part to it’s free to play option.  For the past 7 years, the game [...]

If you’re like me, you probably get bored playing the same game day in and day out.  You don’t necessarily want to abandon your favorite game but you want to break the cycle a bit and find a few others to play when that favorite MMO starts feeling more like work than play!  That’s how [...]

AoC is a very polished and bright game. The launch was the best I’ve ever seen in an MMO with smooth gameplay and a fairly small number of major issues. No launch is ever likely to be perfect. That being said, the Early Access was disheartening to say the least. If you are in the [...]

Looks like server start time for Early Access has been bumped up to 8 PM GMT. Which is 3 PM Eastern Standard Time. That gives you a little more time to finish your download and patch your client. Get ready!

As predicted, when I woke up this morning the download client reported download complete and I began installation before heading into work.  Gotta love Funcom, the installation message “This will take a long time” haha.  Anyway, if you haven’t already tried the auto pause/resume method using the AI Robot or some other macro tool, I [...]

While waiting for my early access download to complete for AoC, I was playing around with Star Wars Empires at War single player.  I was having a blast attacking planets one at a time, first conquering the area of space surrounding the planet with my fleet of Star Destroyers, then launching a ground campaign with [...]

I understand that pausing and resuming the early access download is another solution to keep the download speed up at normal levels.  This works for me when I try it this way but slows back down to a snails pace after about 5 minutes or so.  You can just pause and resume again every five [...]

The download has been going painfully slow since it began, sometimes getting up around 40kpbs at it’s peek but hovering in the 30’s. I was wondering why it was so slow, and my internet connection was unbearable while it was running. I have more bandwidth than that!!
 
Today I started messing with the settings and it [...]

It’s been 24 hours since I began the Early Access Download for AoC.   This morning my download was at 17% completion, which if it keeps at this pace means it should be complete early Saturday morning my time.  I’m not planning on waiting up until midnight on the 17th to start anyway, I’m not that [...]

Well I finally got the email I’ve been waiting for. Sometime during the night I got the email from Age of Conan that my Early Access Download payment had been processed and I was cleared to begin the download of the AoC client. I started the download this morning, not feeling like I was in [...]

Last night when I checked my mail box I found a nice bubble wrapped box from BestBuy in there. The pre-order exclusive card with my registration number to get on the early access train had finally gotten here, and just in time too. Early access was supposed to start today. So I got on the [...]

This is the official retail trailer video for Age of Conan released last month. This shows a lot of the features coming including the amazing world itself and a good look at mounts.
 
 

From everything I’ve been reading, the Early Access Download to play Age of Conan before the rest of the world starts on May 17th.  But, of course there are going to be plenty of people crowding Funcom’s download servers to get the program to play early, so they are allowing people to start downloading the [...]

With a little more digging, I found that there is a special offer you may be interested in if you are planning on buying Age of Conan anyway. If you pre-order the game you will get your choice of two mounts, a Killer Rhino or the War Mammoth which you’ll be able to mount after [...]