Official Announcements

TR: Saturday Slaughter!

Sometimes you just need a good fight.

If you're looking for something to do this Saturday and you're a Tabula Rasa fan, you'll want to check out their clan versus clan Saturday Slaughter event.

Why have a one on one fight when you can have a Clan vs. Clan Rumble? We need to do a server stress test for a few hours and need to bring down both the US2 and EU shards to do it. We'd thought we would at least be entertaining about it and beat each other up for you while we are testing.

Official Announcements

Wed, Oct 17, 2007

Aelryn
Pre-Order Pirates of the Caribbean and be a Founder

Yarr! The early bird gets the worm, he does!

Pirates of the Caribbean Online have just announced that pre-orders for the game are available and that players can gain founder status by pre-ordering, which grants a load of cool stuff.

# Pre-order now and receive: 50% off your first month, that's only
$4.95, and $9.95 each additional month*
# A limited edition certified cloth map
# An exclusive Founder title for every pirate
on your account.

Official Announcements

Tue, Oct 16, 2007

Aelryn
Altered Booster Pack Sizes Coming to WoW TCG

More cards, less money. Sounds just good enough to be true? It is.

Good news for fans of the World of Warcraft trading card game: Upper Deck issued a recent press release which states that they're going to be increasing the size of the booster packs without increasing the cost.

Press Release, Official Announcements

Tue, Oct 16, 2007

Aelryn
Vanguard Development Moves to the San Diego Studio

It's a sad day in the land of Vanguard.

It was announced today that SOE will be moving the Vanguard offices from Carlsbad to San Diego and several of the developers working on the game have been laid off, one of whom was the lead for the Diplomacy section of the game. No other announcements regarding the future of the game have been made at this time.

Official Announcements

Tue, Oct 16, 2007

Aelryn
Feedback Friday: Server Names Announced

NCsoft used today's "Feedback Friday" feature to announce names of the Tabula Rasa servers and answer a few questions about them. Orion, Cassiopeia, Pegasus, Centaurus and Test will be your homes when the game launches.

You can learn a little more about the servers (like locations) and see a few more answered questions at the Official Site.

Feel free to come discuss the names in our forums!

Official Announcements

Fri, Oct 12, 2007

RadarX
Anarchy Online to Offer Virtual Item Sales

Virtual item sales: Coming soon to a game near you.

In a bold move by Funcom, there will soon be virtual item sales in the world of Anarchy Online. It remains to be seen how the player-base is going to respond to this.

Official Announcements

Fri, Oct 12, 2007

Aelryn
Chronicles of Spellborn European Release Date Set

Get ready, old world!

Here's a new press release from Spellborn which discusses the European release date and a few other things:

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Chronicles of Spellborn's (TCoS) European
publisher, Frogster Germany, has set a launch date of Q1 2008 for that
territory. This extra time will be used by Spellborn International
for additional QA testing and incorporating more content.

Frogster Studios has also licensed The Chronicles of Spellborn in the
Japanese market in one of the largest closings for a single product in

Official Announcements

Fri, Oct 12, 2007

Aelryn
EA Buys Bioware, Pandemic Studios for $860 Million

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

This news is huge. HUGE. I'll let it speak for itself. This is from bizjournals.com:

Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday it agreed to acquire VG Holding Corp. -- which owns both BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios -- from Elevation Partners in a deal valued at $860 million.

Press Release, Official Announcements

Thu, Oct 11, 2007

Cody Bye
Closed Beta Key Giveaway!

Closed Beta Key Giveaway!

If you have an accounter with the Gods and Heroes community, you have a
chance to get a closed beta key!

We are going to put up a limited number
of beta codes on our distribution page to help push for stability
testing this weekend. You'll find the beta key distribution page here: http://community.godsandheroes.com/closedbetacodes/.

Beta, Official Announcements

Tue, Oct 09, 2007

Darkgolem
Gala-Net to Provide Item Trading Through PlaySpan

Gala-Net, , announced today that they will soon be offering safe and easy virtual item and cash trades between players through PlaySpan.

Supporting the ever expanding number of online gamers who want a safe and seamless way to trade virtual items, leading free-to-play online game publisher Gala-Net, Inc. today announced that they will provide in-game item exchange through an exclusive agreement with PlaySpan, the first publisher-sponsored in-game commerce network.

Press Release, Official Announcements

Tue, Oct 09, 2007

Aelryn

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