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$tation Exchange in Game News Stardock Forums

Station Exchange, Sony Online Entertainment's official MMORPG auction service, has made more than $180,000 in its first month of operation according to Gamesindustry. The service, which allows players to buy characters, currency and items using real world money has been marked to be a huge success, with the average participant spending $70. The service does not come free though, SOE takes a ten percent commission for each sale, a $1 listing fee for

Reply to Zobot Authors Caught in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It also 'breaks' the drag and drop from untrusted sites, even if you are dragging TO the untrusted site (the other way around makes sense). But thats easily fixed by adding the sites as trusted.

Reply to SLi - worth it? in Video Cards Stardock Forums

My personal belief is that its still not worth the money. Not to mention that I don't think there are any games out there now that can't be run with a topped off system as it is, at full resolution. I will most likely be sticking with my Radeon 9800, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ for awhile longer.

Funcom Delays Adventure Title in Game News Stardock Forums

Funcom has announced that its sequel to The Longest Journey has been delayed to Spring of 2006. Originally scheduled for Q4 of 2005, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has been pushed back so that Funcom can get in extra development time. Dreamfall, which has been in development for more than two and a half years, plans on spicing up the adventure franchise with "direct action, an interactive 3D world, stealth elements, [and] combat," when it hits stores fo

Reply to Asheron's Call 2 KIA in Game News Stardock Forums

It costs ALOT to run them, all the servers and people who have to maintain and keep them updated. IMO (although they probably looked at doing this) I would have done what you said and then put the game in 'maintenance mode' where its just a few guys who look after the server with no more content updates. Therefore at least the people who wanted to continue still could play and it wouldn't be too much of a burden, and most importantly your customer ba

Turbine Closing Studio in Game News Stardock Forums

The folks over at Turbine Entertainment have more bad news to announce today. Its seems that, unrelated to the Asheron's Call 2 closure , Turbine will be closing its West Coast studio. The Santa Monica studio was headed by Jason Bell since its creation in 2004, and was created to help relations in Asia as well as garnering closer links to the various businesses in the LA a

Reply to Asheron's Call 2 KIA in Game News Stardock Forums

Check out www.mmogchart.com for some interesting stats (and the CRASH of AC2, no other game crashed that badly after a good start).

GameTap Priced in Game News Stardock Forums

Turner Broadcasting System has announced the price for its upcoming content delivery system GameTap. GameTap is to debut in North America at $14.95 a month with a 2-week trial, a price that is on par with current competitors. The service is to allow users with broadband machines to play downloaded content from the early arcades to console and PC collections. "GameTap is such a new concept that we wanted to unlock the 'vault' as a kind of v

Asheron's Call 2 KIA in Game News Stardock Forums

Turbine CEO Jeffrey Anderson has left a very short and to the point note on the Asheron's Call 2 webpage today. Anderson announced that Asheron's Call 2 will be shut down as of December 30th, 2005, meaning that the prequel has outlasted its sequel. "In spite of our hard work and the launch of Legions, AC2 has reached the point where it no longer makes sense to continue the service. We will be officially closing the Asheron's Call 2 service on 12/30/0

Who's Right? in Game News Stardock Forums

For Shenmue Online the question isn't when the game will come out but who owns it. As reported earlier this month, SEGA pulled the plug on JC Entertainment's developer status, citing quality issues, and transferred the title to a Taiwanese based developer. 4Gamer has caught word of yet another problem for the MMO, this time over who owns the rights to the game. The break-up for SEGA is a big problem since JC Entertainment actually owns half of the int

AutoAssault Delayed in Game News Stardock Forums

NCSoft's next MMOG, Auto Assault, has been delayed to 2006 citing quality issues. NetDevil Producer Steven Snow updated the Auto Assault community via its forums, stating that "[developer] NetDevil and [publisher] NCsoft are both companies with a strong commitment to releasing 'only when it's ready,' so we want to extend the beta into the spring of 2006." But with the bad came the good, Snow also informed the community that the latest of the

Halo Hitting Silver Screen in 2007 in Game News Stardock Forums

As some may remember, Xbox's biggest franchise is being made into a movie which has finally received a date. According to Variety, the Xbox and PC franchise of Halo will be hitting the silver screen in the summer of 2007. The hopeful date comes after an aggressive assault on Hollywood by Microsoft who asked for things normally reserved for the industry's top stars. While shopping the deal around, reports claimed that Microsoft demanded $10 million or

Reply to Question about KVM's in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Does your monitor have both a DVI and VGA connection by any chance? Lots of them do so if you aren't sure I would certainly take a look first, otherwise you will pay through the nose for a good DVI KVM as you have already figured out. Or get an adapter...

Codemasters Online Gaming Gets First in Game News Stardock Forums

Codemasters Online Gaming has announced its first MMO title, the popular RF Online. RF Online already has over 1 million subscribers in the east and Codemasters, who just snagged the North American and European rights to the title, hopes they can boost that number. RF Online is an MMORPG infused with magical fantasy mixed with futuristic science-fiction and promises to have some of the most epic battles in any MMO. Novus, the galactic battle ground fo

Violent Research Study in Game News Stardock Forums

Another research study has been conducted to determine the influence of violent games on children. Jessica Nicoll, BA, and Kevin M. Kieffer, PhD, of Saint Leo University presented their findings in the last day of the American Psychological Association in Washington DC which said that kids exposed to violent games had an increased aggressive behavior in the short and long term. Nicoll and Kieffer didn't actually perform any studies of their

Reply to This is what happens when your family plays the same game..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

My parents stay away from computers so I'm good.

Square-Enix-Taito in Game News Stardock Forums

Bloomberg Japan has word that Square-Enix has offered to pay as much as 67 billion yen ($610 million) to buy game maker Taito, creators of Space Invaders. Square-Enix is offering a 12 percent premium over Taito's current stock price for all the shares including the 36 percent owned by Kyocera Corporation. The offer comes as another try by Square-Enix to lower production costs and diversify their product line-up, the same reasons given for the merger

Serious Website in Game News Stardock Forums

2K Games has posted the official Serious Sam 2 website, and from the information displayed, Serious Sam 2 is as ridiculous as its predecessor. The site is packed with information on the game including weapons, enemies and vehicles, including a raptor, flying saucer and a "Rollerball" (think American Gladiators) that uses a "hamster effect power supply." Serious Sam 2 is a full sequel to the 2001 hit and the second coming is expected for PC and Xbox on Octobe

10tacle Studio Gets Unreal in Game News Stardock Forums

10tacle Studios has announced that its upcoming RPG, Elveon, will be based on Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3. 10tacle Studios says that the choice was made because of the engine's "excellent performance, features and toolset." Elveon will place you in a time when Elves ruled Naon, and task players with fulfilling a prophecy, the liberation of Nimathar. Gamers still have a good wait for the RPG, with the current release pegged at 2007 for PC, PS3, and X

The Movies Pre-Order Bonus in Game News Stardock Forums

Peter Molyneux's upcoming sim The Movies has just become a little more enticing. The game which is due out in a few months now comes with a pre-order bonus that will enable players to get a head start on their character design. Activision has announced that the application dubbed StarMaker will allow users to design a character that can later be imported into the sim. StarMaker will allow players to alter a character's face, age, weight and even all

Caesar Lives in Game News Stardock Forums

Not since seven years ago have gamers been able to live out their fantasies in the Caesar franchise, but fear not, for Tilted Mill and VU Games have announced that Caesar IV will quench your thirst for Roman culture in the fall of 2006. Players will again take charge of their own Roman domain from the focal point of Italy, ruling over, creating and building various colonies throughout Europe and into Africa. Caesar IV will have the usual tune-ups, in

Reply to The story of trying to get a console game made in Game Developers Stardock Forums

This article was fantastic and for someone who has never been into the gaming industry as a developer (but is working on it) its very interesting to get a taste of what goes on behind those closed doors and press releases, even if it is a little bit scary.

Reply to WoW is fun, WoW sucks! in WoW Stardock Forums

I also can't play the samething over and over but I have been able to play certain games for alone time. I have been playing WoW since its release and played Phantasy Star Online for along time as well. I also still play Warcraft III: TFT every once in awhile also. The way I keep my hardcore gaming going is to simply throw other games into the mix. Right now I am playing about 5 games at once, of varying types. Most of the games are games you just

Reply to World of Warcraft: Uncommon tips and tricks in Misc Games Stardock Forums

I am a big wow player and just wanted to point out that some of these things aren't 100%. 1) I can't say that I have seen this happen, or have had it happen to me but maybe it does/did exist earlier in the game or I just never came across it. 2) I can't stress this point enough, there are THOUSANDS of mods out there and they will help you fine tune your skills, save time and ultimatley gain more XP/gold per hour. Check out <a h

Broken Sword 4 from THQ in Game News Stardock Forums

THQ has announced that the fourth installment in the Broken Sword franchise will be published next summer for PC only. The franchise, which has sold over 2.5 million copies since 1996, was designed as a trilogy by developer Revolution Software but "the demand from fans for another game in the Broken Sword series has been overwhelming," according to Revolution MD Charles Cecil.