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News Archives

	February 08, 2001

Archived News for January 30, 2001

	Phantasy Star Online \| PSO Shipping	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Daily Radar is reporting that Sega America is shipping PSO titles to stores today for Dreamcast owners. You can read their review of the game here.

	Jumpgate \| New Gameplay FAQ	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	While this may only seem relevant to the Beta testers of Jumpgate, it's great to see some of the in-game information exposed to us losers who don't have the benefit of being one of the In Crowd. You can check out the revised FAQ here.

	WWII Online \| Now THIS is the Screenshot I was looking for	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Showing true inventiveness, Gryf showed the WWII Online official discussion forum a peak into his editor that displays hardened areas of each model. You can check out the discussion as it plays out here. You'll need to scroll down a bit to get to the screen shot.

	Editorial \| Factions in UO	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Another gem from Lum the Mad, written by Arcadian Del Sol, rips into the new Faction system implemented as a means by which PvP killing can suddenly become more interesting. Arcadian doesn't believe the system works, and gives some pretty concrete evidence to that belief.

	EverQuest \| Evernerf	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Over on Lum the Mad, Myschyf has posted a little ditty with a rundown on the latest nerfing of a high-level cleric breastplate that apparently did very little for game balance. Here's a quote: Clearly the EverQuest team realized sometime ago that the breastplate was over powered as the openly admitted to �adjusting� high-level monsters in game to compensate for the breastplate. On Fennin Ro, a level 60 cleric cried. Heh, would have paid to see that. Anyway, you can check out the rest of the article here, and comment on it here.

	Editorial \| New OT Express	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	The sometimes funny, sometimes just plain odd, Otherworld Express has just released Issue 159

	RuneScape \| More Improvements	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Proving once again that a Java based game is a great platform for an MMORPG, Runescape has been updated: Following saturdays update the combat system has been tweaked further. The retreating was still too difficult (particularly when bei

	Ultima Online \| 3rd Dawn Beta Website now Open	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	UO: 3rd Dawn now has its own website devoted to the Beta that is being distributed this week. Here's a quick summary of what's required to play in the closed Beta: To order an Ultima Online: Third Dawn Beta CD, you must have an active Ultima Online account in good standing. The CD's are available for the price of shipping and handling in US dollars: $4.95 domestic (US & Puerto Rico), and $6.95 international. Once you have completed your order, you may expect delivery in up to 7 days on domestic orders (up to 21 days international). You will need to provide a Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or AMEX card to complete the ordering process.

	NeverWinter Nights \| Interplay.com	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Interplay has started a new business venture, Interplay.Com, to handle the lucrative Massively Multi-Player Game phenomenon.. You can read the rest of the Yahoo press release for yourself, but I can't figure out how this changes things.

	Editorial \| Addicted to EverCrack	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Posted anonymously on MPOG, this editorial plumbs the depths of the MMORPG addiction, focused generally on EQ, but applying to each game in the genre equally. Check out the examination of this addication for yourself.

	Editorial \| Most Excellent	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Savant, of Lum the Mad fame, has just written up Savant's Excellent Adventue, Part I. This is a sort of travelogue of his time spent at the EIA conference going on in

	Sims Online \| More Scoops from Will	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	GameSpy continued coverage of EIA conference today by producing a full rundown of Will Wright, creator of the Sims and SimCity franchises. Here's a sample of what they had to say about Sims Online: The

	Editorial \| Stolen Thoughts: Designing the Perfect Thief System	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	A great piece written by Niobe, and posted on the Crossroads of New Britannia site, this editorial runs down the author's ideas on how to create a theiving system within an MMORPG. You can check out the editorial here.

	EverQuest \| New EQ'Lizer Data	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	GameZNet's complete database for EQ, EQ'Lizer, has been updated with a bunch of new stuff. Here's the rundown: Today we have several items from Skyshrine, a coup

	Reviews \| Desslock Names Top 5	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Desslock, of Deslock's RPG News, has just created a rundown of his top 5 online RPGs for the upcoming year. The Review is pretty complete, but is on his rotating news home page, so catch it quickly.

	BigWorld: Citizen 0 \| Forum Post	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	Kevin Kong, MicroForte employee and Forum master, posted this recently in the official forums: On the BW main page, after clicking on the forum link on the left there is a small screenshot on the top right of the page blended into the menu. From what i can see, there are hundreds of people in one area. It would be interesting to view the full image, if anyone knows where it is.... The image snippet is from an unreleased screenshot. We created a movie for the AGDC back in November 2000 and the image was from a segment of that movie. Basically that shot showed a mass of botclients rushing down a hill in a scene not too dissimilar from BraveHeart. The scene was included to show off one of BigWorld Technology's strength, massive & meaningful crowd scenes. In that scene I believe we had 600 avatars running over the hill. -- Kevin

	NeverWinter Nights \| Interview with Preston	January 30, 2001
	By: Mystery
	A great Q&A session with Preston Watamaniuk, Technical Designer for Neverwinter Nights, took place over on Neverwinter Haven. Here's a sample of the dialog: 6. What do you find the most exciting feature of NWN and why? - The most exciting feature to date is the scripting language. This is my personal bias since I am slated to do a lot of scripting in the coming months. It is nice to have a language that allows you to achieve maximum effect with a minimum of code. Being a bit of a scripter myself, I'm excited as well. You can get excited for yourself here.


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