Ginnunga news

Gamescom 2012 is currently underway! Calyn, Coots and Cogency had a chance to go and have a look on day one. Made a few pictures of the booths and stuff, I guess you all know what a computer looks like and the trailers of new games can be found on Youtube so not to many of those. But nonetheless, click the link below for some pictures!

Gamescom 2012 pictures

We have come across a new MMO, ArcheAge Online, its currently still in developement and ofcourse its way to early to tell if this is the "new" best game ever. But from what we've seen, this has potential to be a great game.

It is currently in closed beta (without NDA) in Korea, supposed to release in November this year in Korea, and in Q1 in the west (but there is no publisher yet). They don't claim to "westernize" the game, it already seems to be less asian than Aion or TERA. It's using CryEngine 3. A few of the developers were involved in L2.

The game is supposed to have a PvE part comparable to WoW and PvP part comparable to L2, but what sets it apart from other MMOs are the sandbox features.

• Classes: 4 Archetypes OR custom like in UO. You have 10 skillsets to choose from and can have 3 active at any given time.
  
• The world is seamless and consists of 3 massive continents, one of them is supposed to allow players to build and siege their own castles, the other two are held by NPC factions. There are ships but no teleport.
  
• Housing: Extensive housing system lets players plant down houses of different sizes in any free spot in the world similar to UO, and expand them with crafting items or NPCs. You will be able to build villages and one of the videos shows players building a shipyard and ships.
  
• Labor Points: These are used in crafting or other activities and accumulate over time even while offline.
  
• Factions: In addition to NPC factions, players can create their own. Attacking a member of your own faction on PvP servers will flag you as a criminal (or cause you to go to trial, unclear), you can go to jail in this game.
  
• There is mounted combat - your mount can level up and gain new abilities - as well as naval battle which looks similar to Darkfall.

Much more info and videos on these fansites:
http://www.aaportal.net/en/
http://archeagesource.com

Today, myself, Ernesto, Coots and Raynolf battled against teh evil armies of the mad god on the Djinn server.

I reached level 20 without ever dying on any character and proceeded to level up my companions, who kept on dying.

We then formed a tactical blob formation and first battled the evil CUBE GOD.




Then I took command of the blob and directed it towards 120 other gods that we all killed.




Since my companions kept on dying even in the safety of the mighty blob, we took a quick detour so I could level them up again.



But alas, after we met up with the blob again and proceeded onwards towards the Mad God, we were caught in a Hinterhalt and we all died, myself standing heroicly until the last second. Or something like that.




When I died, I had fired 55430 shots with 15% accuracy, explored 329971 tiles, killed 2080 monsters, 121 gods, earned 268 boss fame, completed 3 dungeons, helped my lesser companions to achieve 298 level ups, and earned 429 total fame, to remain a legend forever.

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[10:42] <Meriel> for somereason ern treats me like a man   
[10:42] <Meriel> lol
[10:42] <Ernesto> hahaha
[10:42] <MediaCog> thats strange
[10:42] <Ernesto> It's because you have bigger balls than Cog
[10:42] <MediaCog> he treats me like a girl

With great sadness we received the news that wednesday the 16th of september Ethan, the son of Corwynn and Polluxia, passed away. The cause seemed to be a viral infection.

Corwynn and Polluxia fought side by side with us in WAR as part of the Renegade Legion guild. They are good people, and things like this should not happen to them. All words seem out of place when describing events like this.

Our hearts go out to Polluxia and Corwynn, who are dealing with this tragic loss. May Ethan rest in peace.

Our dear beloved friend Patrik "Ondskefull" Silverberg has passed away. We will all remember and cherish his memory. There just aren't any words in our human language that can properly describe what one feels at times like these. There is just a moist, damp sadness that descends upon oneself like a misty haze of despair.

Patrik, you will be missed.

The suffering! Oh the suffering! US patent system at it's best. 10 years after graphical MMOs were launched, some silly company gets patent rights on, you knew it - MMOs!


From the full story at Massively.com

I found this very interesting piece on on Raph Kosters blog where the intro caught my eye quite quickly.


You can find the whole paper at Terra Nova