by Jeff Woleslagle on Oct 16, 2008
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World of Warcraft- 200 BPM Warhammer Online - 92 BPM Stargate Worlds - 42 BPM Age of Conan - 25 BPM EVE Online - 8 BPM Lord of the Rings Online - 8 BPM Tabula Rasa - 8 BPM EverQuest 2 - 5 BPM Atlantica Online - 4 BPM Vanguard: Saga of Heroes - 4 BPMIf the Top 10 isn't enough, we also show the Top 20 and Top 50 lists as well, available to everyone on our homepage. (What is Pulse?)
Daily Column - Pirates of Space and Sea
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Rounding out our BlizzCon coverage today, we have a number of BlizzCon impression and opinion pieces as well as a quick video interview with 38 Studios' Curt Schilling about Azeroth Advisor, a freebie newsletter that delivers custom advice for leveling your WoW characters. Ten Ton Hammer's Medeor found the service somewhat useful in its former $5 a month incarnation, so I might see if Azeroth Advisor can't toss a line to my shipwreck of late level 30 characters if I can tear myself away from WAR sometime soon. I'll let you know what I find out.
So we've shaken off our BlizzCon haze and, at long last, we have some news that doesn't involve Blizzard. EVE Online announced the "Quantum Rise" expansion yesterday, a free expansion that will showcase a number of improvements that corporations and industrial players have been anticipating for some time. Unfortunately, unlike the last major expansion, there's not a lot for new players.
Looking over the "Quantum Rise" expansion features list, the most surprising feature is the corp designed storefronts improvement, which goes along with CCP's plans to humanize EVE Online with the Ambulation Project, or the ability to walk around the stations you dock in. Unless the storefront changes go beyond the cosmetic (i.e. offer discounts to frequent ore customers and that sort of thing), I'm not sure this particular feature will be a big seller.
Not to be outdone, Pirates of the Burning Sea announced sweeping changes to avatar combat in a lengthy and lovingly crafted devlog. The animation problems that were the black mark on most of Burning Sea's reviews are long gone, and soon combat will work as intended. Would things have been better if melee combat was working perfectly at launch? Of course, but I don't think it hurts Burning Sea's chances of becoming a slowly, steadily growing fan favorite in the vein of EVE Online, notone bit.
Finally, site of the week! You might have noticed that I'm fighting an addition to SAT words, and now we have a site that may destroy me by feeding the hungry as you increase your vocabulary: FreeRice.com . If every Loading... subscriber answered 50 questions correctly (it takes about 5 minutes) we'd feed about 52 people for a week or one person for an entire year.
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Ten Ton Hammer Epic Thread of the Day22 new MMOG hand-crafted articles today! 180 in October! 2680 in 2008!
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BlizzCon 2008
[New!] A Player's Opinion of the WoW Raid Panel [New!] Curt Schilling on Azeroth Advisor [New!] The Art of the World of Warcraft [New!] Exclusive Video - Diablo 3 Questions [New!] Diablo 3 - The Wizard [New!] World of Warcraft: Classes Panel [New!] Boomjack's BlizzCon Impressions [New!] Starcraft 2: Gameplay Panel World of LineCraft Wrath of the Lich King: Jeff Kaplan Explains (Video) Wrath of the Lich King: Expansion Specifics with Jeff Kaplan (Video) Wrath of the Lich King: 10 Best Press Conference Questions Diablo 3: 10 Best Press Conference Questions Diablo 3: Hands-on Preview Diablo 3: Class Panel Discussion Overview Starcraft 2: Hands-on Preview World of Warcraft: Dungeons and Raids PanelImages/Video
Angels Online: Exclusive ArtworkCommunity
Top 10 Free to Play Games Vanguard: The Newb Experiment - The BeginningGuides
Warhammer Online: Shaman Masteries Warhammer Online: Intro to Keep Sieges and Battlefield Objectives Warhammer Online: Chaos Tier 2 Levelling Guide Warhammer Online: Dwarf Public Quests - Chapter 4 World of Warcraft: Patch 2.0 Combat Mechanics Changes - Part 2 World of Warcraft: PvP Changes is Patch 3.0.2 Age of Conan: Assassin PvP Lotus Build Age of Conan: Priest of Mitra Group Preset Feat Build Age of Conan: Priest of Mitra Sols Preset Feat Build Age of Conan: Combat FAQ Update Vanguard: Shimmering Silverbark ArmorHot Content - Or, what I took a fancy to:
[New!] A Player's Opinion of the WoW Raid Panel [New!] Curt Schilling on Azeroth Advisor [New!] Exclusive Video - Diablo 3 Questions [New!] World of Warcraft: Classes Panel [New!] Boomjack's BlizzCon Impressions World of LineCraft Wrath of the Lich King: Jeff Kaplan Explains (Video) Wrath of the Lich King: Expansion Specifics with Jeff Kaplan (Video) Diablo 3: Hands-on PreviewReal World News
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