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Guild Wars: Join Us for the Dragon Festival!
Jul 02, 2009 - 2:33 PM

Guild Wars: Join Us for the Dragon Festival!

This weekend, put on your best imperial finery and join us for the annual Dragon Festival! After today's live update, Shing Jea Monastery will spring to life as the citizens of Cantha eagerly prepare for the commemorative festivities. Among the events planned are the re-opening of the Dragon Arena, the return of the Shing Jea Boardwalk, and a brand new festival mask! Head over to our festival page for all the details.



via Guild Wars Official Site



Guild Wars: Xunlai Tournament House News
Jul 02, 2009 - 2:33 PM

Guild Wars: Xunlai Tournament House News


Starting today, the Xunlai Tournament House will be down for extended maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For more information, please see this post.


via Guild Wars Official Site



WoW: Faction-Change Service in the Works
Jun 29, 2009 - 7:20 PM

WoW: Faction-Change Service in the Works - according Blizzard's Nethaera on the official forums.

We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. There’s still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we’re pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it.

As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the faction-change service in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience on the realms, and there will be some rules involved with when and how the service can be used. The number of variables involved increases the complexity of implementing this service, but we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out.



China Bans Gold Farming on InformationWeek
Jun 29, 2009 - 7:17 PM

China Bans Gold Farming on InformationWeek

The Chinese government has declared that virtual currency cannot be traded for real goods or services.

Virtual currency, as defined by Chinese authorities, includes "prepaid cards of cyber-games," according to a joint release issued by China's Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Commerce on Friday.

"The virtual currency, which is converted into real money at a certain exchange rate, will only be allowed to trade in virtual goods and services provided by its issuer, not real goods and services," the Ministries said.

The Chinese government estimates that trade in virtual currency exceeded several billion yuan last year, a figure that it claims has been growing at a rate of 20% annually. One billion yuan is currently equal to about $146 million.



EA Merges Mythic and BioWare Into New RPG/MMO Group
Jun 26, 2009 - 4:03 AM

Mythic and BioWare Form New RPG/MMO Group on Warhammer Herald

EA is restructuring its RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic and BioWare. This newly formed team will be led by Ray Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare’s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare’s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.

Mark Jacobs, co-founder and current General Manager of Mythic, will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.

Mythic retains a strong team led by Rob who co-founded Mythic in 1995. Rob played a critical role in the development of Dark Age of Camelot. In his previous role as COO, he was responsible for all day-to-day management of the studio including all development, operations and support.



Guild Wars: Xunlai Tournament House News
Jun 25, 2009 - 6:43 PM

Guild Wars: Xunlai Tournament House News


Starting today, the Xunlai Tournament House will be down for extended maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For more information, please see this post.


via Guild Wars Official Site



Guild Wars: May Tournament Updates
Jun 18, 2009 - 5:01 PM

Guild Wars: May Tournament Updates

In slightly belated May tournament news, last month's runner-up History Repeats Itself [Cry] defeated Stealing Society [StS] to become this month's GvG champion. For 1v1, Not Expensive South claimed victory over Ernie Ftwwwwwwwwww to become May's 1v1 champion. For the complete list of rankings, check out the full GvG and 1v1 results.

After today's live update, we will be adding May's prediction points to the Xunlai Agent. If you made May predictions in the Xunlai Tournament House, check your neighborhood Xunlai Agent after the build to claim your Tournament Reward Points.



via Guild Wars Official Site



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Guild Wars: Community: Contests, Stories, and More!
Jun 18, 2009 - 5:01 PM

Guild Wars: Community: Contests, Stories, and More!

A single update could not hold all of this month's player-created activities! See how you can participate in the latest Community News update!

via Guild Wars Official Site



Rumor: Cryptic Developing Neverwinter Nights MMO
Jun 16, 2009 - 11:43 AM

Rumor: Cryptic Developing Neverwinter Nights MMO - Variety is reporting that Cryptic may be working on a new MMORPG based on the previous BioWare/Obsidian-developed Neverwinter Nights series of Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG titles in addition to its other current projects, Champions Online and Star Trek Online.

Sources tell us that the developer is working on a massively multiplayer online (MMO) version of "Neverwinter Nights" with an eyed 2011 release.

Details about the project are unavailable, naturally, as it is an unannounced title. But this reportedly was the primary reason Atari was interested in acquiring Cryptic late last year.



Guild Wars: Community: June's Heating Up!
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:00 PM





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