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Sony Online Entertainment’s superhero MMO is making the jump to the lucrative free to play model this October — and apparently this was always the intention.

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World of Darkness isn’t an MMO for the faint of heart. In fact, CCP’s upcoming nocturnal title is being intricately developed with the hardcore player in mind: the game will have lots of gore, nudity, and demented features that the team hopes will make it the definitive vampire MMORPG experience. Underneath its guts lie the RPG system created by White Wolf, which was previously used by the …

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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced a new free-to-play business model for its popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) game DC Universe Online (DCUO) — where players have the freedom to become legendary fighting alongside…

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share: digg facebook twitter James Halliday, creator of the OASIS — an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online game) turned globally networked virtual reality system used by practically everyone in the year 2039 — has died without any heirs to his vast fortune. The story takes place in two worlds — the dystopian real world of 2045 and OASIS, a virtual MMO — and follows high school student and …

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In between releasing StarCraft 2 mods and churning out the Diablo 3 beta, Blizzard Entertainment still has a World of Warcraft team that’s hard at work on making content for the biggest MMO in the world as fast and as well as they can. WoW , which is about three years short of a decade old, is coming up on patch 4.3, subtitled Dragon Soul. With this patch, Game Director Tom Chilton and his team …

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Same-sex relationships are coming to the “Star Wars” universe, courtesy of video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts’ new massively multiplayer online role- playing game (or “MMORPGs” or “MMOs” for short), “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” and the decision is getting people talking.

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Korean online game developer LTime Games recently secured & #8361;2.5 billion ($2.2 million) of capital from Knet Investment Partners and IMM Investment, which the firm will use to fund its upcoming MMORPG Wind Runner. Based in Seoul, the company was founded in June 2009 by veterans from local MMO companies such as NCsoft, Nexon, and MGame. This is LTime’s second round of funding — last year …

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Subscriptions for MMOs have declined for the first time, according to new research. Despite the drop, microtransactions “continue to grow strongly”, said Piers Harding-Rolls of analytics firm Screen Digest, which carried out the study. He added “I don’t believe we’ll see subscriptions grow again in this sector as microtransactions take hold. “Although there is some upside to this view, which …

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Ubuntu Vibes: “Official NASA MMO, Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond may come to Linux.”

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Contains before and after pictures. The original RuneScape Classic will be reopened today to celebrate 10 years of the incredibly successful browser MMO. You’ll need to log in between today and next Thursday, 29th September in order to gain access. RuneScape creator Jagex wants you to see, first hand, how far the game has come in 10 years. Read more…

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