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30 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Friday update #12 for Age of Conan: Mounted combat!
In today’s weekly Age of Conan update there’s news that mounted combat will be added to the game. There is going to be different types of mounts depending on speed and health and within each of those types there will be further variations. This game is adding a lot of excellent features t
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30 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Reviewer got fired, allegedly, for reviewing
Much like TenTonHammer said, this has nothing to do with MMOs but it’s funny as hell so I decided to post it. Jeff Gerstmann, an executive editor at Gamespot, gave a mediocre review to Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Eidos, the game's publisher, got mad and threatened to cancel all the advertising
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29 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
New Developer Vid for the Age of Conan
This time around the topic discussed is the enemies you will come upon when you delve into the age of Hyboria - what they are, what they do, how they act, etc, etc. From what we hear in the vid it looks like Age of Conan might turn out to be very immersive, something that most current MMOs fail to a
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29 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
G4 doesn’t know anything about MMOs
G4’s website just added a new feature detailing “great failures” in several fields they think viewers might be interested in. One of those fields includes video games which eventually leads us to reaching the MMO side of this industry. The greatest failure in recent video game history -- I rep
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27 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Perpetual Entertainment’s MMO development is going from bad to worse
At the beginning of October, Perpetual put its Roman-themed MMO, Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising, on “indefinite hold” as the company was shifting its focus on platform games and concentrating on making Star Trek Online "...lives up to the high level of expectation set by the dedicated Star Trek fan
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26 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
WoW 3rd Anniversary giveaways start today
To celebrate World of Warcraft’s third birthday as a live MMO, Blizzard is giving away prizes starting today. Once a week until December 15th, Blizzard will give away a different prize ranging from gift certificates, WoW action figure sets, and finally ending with the BIG ONE, an iPod Touch
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20 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Addicted to MMOs? Move to South Korea
We at Total MMO know that MMOs can be great fun as long as your guild isn't disbanding because your guild leader got drunk at a party and made out with some random girl and then your guild leader's girlfriend found out about it and logged on to his account and destroyed all his items, gave away all
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16 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Angry at the GCD change in WOW? This is what you should do
Blizzard joins the AMPTP and Broadway producers in being on the evil end of a workers strike. Carpenters Local 1506 are mad at Blizz for hiring independent contractors for their carpentry work, because of this they are now having a strike in front of the Universal Music Group offices in Santa Monica
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16 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
NC Soft DID come out on top from the Marvel lawsuit
NCsoft recently acquired total control of COH/COV as Cryptic Studios headed over to make the Marvel MMO. I made this post a week ago speculating on how this whole deal went about and how NC Soft came out basically untouched. Now, according to 1UP.com and Next-gen, the Marvel Universe MMO is looking
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16 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Fury celebrates it's one month anniversary!
Whoooooo! Fury is 30 days old whooooo! One whole month of being a live MMO, everybody rejoice... But seriously, in their one month celebration address they mention a few things they will be working on to make Fury a better game. New 1v1 games, and new "Carnage" match, changes to abilities, and lots
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15 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Exteel open beta launches!
Exteel is NC Soft's next MMO up to bat in it's very, very big lineup. According to their description it "blends the immersive thrill of an FPS with the furious and brutal intensity of Hong Kong gun-play mixed with the feel of classic robot anime." So this game should really be called Gundam Boiled A
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15 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Trolls and Rangers unavailable in LOTRO
The folks at Turbine have taken out the ability to use Trolls and Rangers for the monster combat part of the game. Actually let me just copy/paste what they wrote."Greetings,Trolls and Ranger session play will be unavailable until further notice.We're still examining the issue and we'll keep you pos
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14 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
FFXI, banning people, you know the rest
Ok, so this is my third post commenting about Square Enix's zero tolerance on any shenanigans from players in FFXI so you should know what's going on. If you don't then read these posts. Second set of bansFirst set of bansThis time around they have banned 4,400 accounts and temporarily suspended 1,2
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14 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Keyloggers have double agents!
Seagate has announced that their Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 external hard drives are infected with a virus that steals passwords for online games and sends the info to some evil Chinese servers. Most of the games are Chinese BUT! (there is always a but) the one infected game that isn't Chin
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14 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Patch 2.3 The Gods of Zul'Aman is out
The newest patch for the World of Warcraft came out and, like always, sparks are flying!Hunters got "buffed" so everyone is crying; the way Global Cooldown was changed also has everyone crying; Zul' Aman is on contested territory so everyone is crying, etc, etc, etc. Either people in WOW cry more th
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09 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Wrath of the Lich King website update
Blizzard has added new information about one of the dungeons that will be included in the next expo to World of Warcraft. Utgarde Keep (do all evil dudes hang out in keeps?) is the home of the half-giant Vrykul. Think of the Vrykul as Beowulf times two, who have also tamed proto-dragons. Think of th
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08 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
NC Soft Comes out on top from the Marvel suit?
Earlier this week Cryptic Studios announced that they we selling EVERYTHING about City of Heroes/Villians to NC Soft, the intellectual and proprietary of both of those games are now in the hands of NC Soft. They have 100% control over what happens in all aspects of either game.*** From this point on
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02 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
"WOW it’s basically a remake of EverQuest." -Lord British
In an interview with the NY Times Richard Garriott, the Godfather of MMOs, puts forth some wise words about the MMO genre. The Lord turned General mentions one of the faults of one the most popular MMO in the article, he says, "As many kudos as I would like to give World of Warcraft, it’s basicall
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02 Nov
Blog: Total MMO
Tabula Rasa is out!
Richard Garriott's, a.k.a Lord British a.k.a General British, Tabula Rasa officially launches today. This futuristic MMO that takes place in the present brings on the new, and trademarked, cloning system that allows you to make copies of your characters at certain points of your advancement to give