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As some of you no doubt already know, I’m a stickler for proper immersion. It’s the difference between feeling thrown into a living world and a game that starts the same way 2D side scrollers did in the 80’s *cough* Hellgate.

Age of Conan is doing something different. Heck, I think it’s flat-out fascinating.

The game is single player until you’ve hit a few levels. It’s so simple, yet I can’t think of a better way to grant the storytellers 100% control over a brand new player’s environment for those first few all-so-crucial levels. (more…)

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Alright, lets lay some cards on the table. What’s going to happen with WoW? Not WoW2 as we tend to discuss, but WoW.

Will we run out of characters? How many expansions will there be? How long will it go for?

The answers are, No, Five, and 2013.

Here’s the time-line with a history thrown in as well.

11/2004 - World of Warcraft released. End boss, Kel’Thuzad.

01/2007 - Burning Crusade Released. End boss, Illidan/Shade of Kil’Jaeden.

Okay, here’s where we start to speculate…

11/2008 - Wrath of the Lich King. End boss, Arthas. We also know from Metzen that there’s an Old God in the spider kingdom. You’re probably wondering how I came up with that release date. Here’s how. (more…)

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You might remember awhile back when I suggested Chris Avellone needs to do a “Post Nuclear Apocalypse” MMORPG.  Videogamer.com today announced that Interplay is looking to raise funding for a Fallout MMO as part of its two pronged growth strategy.

Personally, I of course think they should license the project to Obsidian Entertainment.  When you need the game to be good and you already have a chunk of the developers who made it great still together under one roof, how could you not give it to them to run with?

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