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Tons of New Screenshots

MMO Portal has posted a boatload of new screenshots on their site. Head over and check them out and then stop by our Ten Ton Hammer Forums and tell us what you think of them!

Win A 2Moons Beta Key

MMORPG.com has announced that in December they will be giving away 200 beta keys for 2Moons!

MMORPG.com is proud to announce that from now until Dec 1, 2006 we will be taking entries into our new 2Moons Beta Contest! Enter to win one of 200 beta testing accounts for Acclaim's new ultra-violent MMORPG 2Moons!

As with all of our contests, the more days you login to MMORPG.com the greater your chances of winning a prize! (see official contest rules for details)

Head over and find out all the details.

The man behind 2Moons to the West answers our questions about the game

MMORPG.com has had a chance to sit down with David Perry.

MMORPG.com: Give us a little background on 2Moons. How did the idea begin? What was Acclaim's motivation for an MMO?

David Perry: I'm just one of these people that want to fire up a game and have fun. If I'm required to know the back history of 5 clans, or watch 20 minutes of cinematics, or read a website before I can have fun, it just bugs me. So I've been toying with the idea of making an MMO that's easy to get into, easy to understand, possibly funny at points, but that makes you feel bad-ass. Not wanting to wait 3 years to find out how it went, I looked for games/engines that could be a match. The closest I could find was a game called Dekaron made by GameHi in Korea. So now I had to convince the creator of that game to let me make any changes (not small ones, big ones, like "Erm... Would you mind if we changed the entire story?") They agreed! So being on a roll I made a list of "difficult requests" and flew to Korea again to explain those in person. Again, they seem receptive and are working on those. The great news is that we are just a few months away from launch.

So I've teamed up with a publisher with no Baggage, in the form of Acclaim. Howard Marks (the CEO) was one of the guys that brought Activision back from Bankruptcy, and as you know it's massive today. He's now doing the same thing with the Acclaim brand. He's backing this concept 150% and so I say he's either crazy or a pioneer. Only time will tell, but you can be certain he'll have a lot of consumer fans that got to play his games for free.

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Dave Perry Makes the Interview Rounds

Yes folks, it's another interview with 2Moons Dave Perry. Today, the interview is with RPG Vault. Don't miss the screenshot that is posted along with this interview!

In this role, he's involved in 2Moons, the intriguing persistent state endeavor announced two weeks ago by publisher Acclaim. The initial press release served up some very interesting pieces of information. For instance, it stated that the game will be free, violent and aimed at adult players, with the focus being to become a high-level combatant in a world characterized by the tagline "No mercy for the weak, no pity for the dying, no tears for the slain." The way in which development is being handled also piqued our curiosity. Although based on GameHi's Dekaron, a massively multiplayer offering that has been a success in Korea, 2Moons is described as a "re-make" rather than a translated or even localized version. Naturally, we were immediately keen to know more, so we were very pleased for the chance to question David Perry.

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