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Dungeons and Dragons: Online is Now Free!
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Hey everyone,
After much delay from Turbine and their lawsuit, DDO is now available, and it’s free to play!
The game has come a long way, including a lot of ups and downs. We were able to play it during the open beta, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Although it’s been quite a bit of time since playing, it looks to be really polished, and as we remembered it, quite fun.
Coming from wiki
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (abbreviated as “DDO“) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Turbine, Inc. Turbine developed DDO as an online adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D) based loosely on the D&D 3.5 Ruleset. It is set in the Eberron campaign setting. Internet access is required to play.
On June 9 2009, ddonline.com announced that Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach will be free to play (f2p) for all in US but will not be f2p in Europe. The name will be changed to Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. The level cap will be increased to level 20 and Free users will have access to the majority of game content; some features will have to be purchased with turbine points. As for new subscribers or old subscribed players, there will be VIP access that contains additional all-new features available for them as well as free turbine points. Closed beta registration opened on June 9 2009 and the game and contents will be free to download on September 1 for VIP members and September 9 for the general North American public.
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Free MMO Review: Tanoth
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
About 2 weeks ago I noticed an ad on RezPLS for the game Tanoth, so I decided to give it a look, and see what it was all about. To my surprise, I have found myself regularly logging in to play the game and putting about an hour or two worth of game play into it each day. I’m not quite sure why the game has allured me so well, but I shall give you some details of the game.
What is Tanoth?
Tanoth Online is a free web based mmorpg by GameForge Inc. GameForge, as wiki states was “established in Karlsruhe, Germany in December 2003 by Klaas Kersting and Alexander Roesner”. GameForge is the company behind such games as: 4Story, Ikariam, OGame, Bitefight, and helped published the PC game Saga of Ryzom. Now GameForge has introduced their new game, Tanoth, to the English audience.
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Infinity: An Amazing Space Shooter
Friday, August 28th, 2009
In our opinion, indie development is the way of the future for all aspects of gaming. Expanding costs of game development, smaller teams of game designers, and the advantage of online distribution have given us some truley unique games. One particular game that has been on RezPLS!’s radar, and looks to be a real treat, is Infinity.
Infinity is a sci-fi space shooter which allows for a massive amount of players to connect and do battle with one another, just like the classic game Star Wars: Tie Fighter. For those pacifists, Infinity also offers players the choice of exploring a vast universe full of an infinite amount of space wonder. Although the game is still in early development, it’s already shaping up to be one of the most beautiful games we’ve seen in a long time. The intent of the game is still being developed, but the plan so far has been to turn this game into an epic space shooter with player controlled content, plenty of story, and exploration. The game can be compared to EVE, but there are many features which sets it apart.
The Infinity universe has a vast and elaborate historical background, and a complex political structure. Within this, the game features a state-of-the-art dynamic story generation engine, making a deep and rich story-tapestry for the player to explore.
The political landscape of the universe is designed to develop over the course of the game: alliances are made and broken, battles won and lost, new systems are charted and populated, and empires rise and fall – all hinging on the action of the players, in cooperation and contest.
The central quest of the game – the Quest for Earth – proceeds through player exploration and the discovery of clues (artifacts and suchlike). Through these discoveries, players learn more about the shape of their quest, the ancient history of their civilization, and perhaps even find their way back to Earth, the rumored planet of origins.
An infinite variety of side-missions will also be available to the player: exploration and surveying, dangerous mining operations, border patrols, espionage, racing, trading, piracy, colonization and empire-building – you name it! Whatever you find fun or challenging to do in the game, you will be able to find someone out there willing to reward you for your services.
A state-of-the-art procedural story generator helps guide the development of your character – although you are free to develop your character in any direction you wish. Imagine limitless dynamically-generated missions, tailored specifically for your character. Even your character’s history is procedurally generated and unique – and it has a bearing on the special missions you receive in the game.
You can always visit a station to see what jobs are available, but you may receive a coded transmission, inviting you to a secret rendezvous. You might receive a distress call – but will you answer it, or might it be a trap? At any point you can opt-out and just have fun flying around, but whenever you want, a rich story-world awaits.
Using a sysem built by a small team of developers whose engine is able to generate an immense amount of planets, galaxies, and spectacular landscapes on the fly using unique algorithms which, claimed, will have little slowdown on your system. The team plans to allow players to vist each planet, with lush landscapes and ambiance, making Infinity gorgeous eye candy. The spaceships displayed thusfar have seen scales from a small personal vessel to large tankers owned by corporations. Hopefully exploration shapes up to be as epic as it sounds. Who wouldn’t want to fly through space, filling your vision with nebulas, quasars, and galaxies? This is one game which could be an amazing experience on a large screen or with video glasses.
The community is also getting a hand in the development. The indie team has listened to their forums and continually update the game with fixes found by its members. Members have also contributed such things as sound and music for the game. The community is very active and helpful to new members, and are very passionate about the game and its development.
Don’t bother asking about a beta though, because it’s still in early development, but this is one game you should definitely wait for. If you do have an itch to play the game, the developers offer a small combat game that uses some of the features planned for the game. The game has that nice feel of grandeur, but with a sense of danger as a well placed laser can send your body into the cold reaches of space. Keep up with Infinity and expect to be wowed.
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MMO-Site: Various Top 1’s in the History of MMO’s Parts I – III
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Hey cool!
MMO-Site has some very impressive and excellent articles, that’s no doubt, and today they’ve added the next part of their “Various Top 1 in History of MMORPG” series. This series takes a look at all the 1sts in the mmo genre, and gives the readers details on what the game is like, and throws in a little bit of a history lesson as well.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm – The New Expansion?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Although RezPLS is mainly focused on bringing you information about free mmorpg’s, it certainly doesn’t mean that when we hear some potentially massive news that we can turn away. Free MMOs are in their own market, which cannot be accurately compared to subscription based mmo’s, however, World of Warcraft is still the 800 pound gorilla in the mmo room, and when it moves, everyone takes notice.
MMO-Champion has posted a massive claim, that at Blizzcon, Blizzard will be announcing their brand new expansion for World of Warcraft titled Cataclysm.
Before you go any further, be warned, this post does contain some potential spoilers
QP: Make Tons of Penya in Flyff
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Alex, our lead editor at RezPLS, has recently been playing Flyff again, and boy oh boy does he love to fly for fun. In the spirit of him getting back into this old game, we’ve decided to do a quick post (QP) on a few articles and sites which give some tips and tricks on making the most penya in Flyff, so he can be rollin’ on some sweet rides, and picking up some echicks (or something like that).
You know you want to know more…
Mythos…Is Coming.
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Remember when Blizzard was good? (Don’t flame me for that) I’m talking about the good old days when Diablo was the main flagship for Blizzard and not just World of Warcraft. Those glory days, ahhh, sitting hours in Battle.net joining games and dueling people, until I got banned for some reason, blah.
Well you may have wondered what happened to the Diablo franchise? Besides the new Diablo III game coming out, there’s one thing that’s lacking, the original developers. Yup, after Diablo II, many of the original developers left Blizzard to open their own studio. Unfortunately, the ill-fated Hellgate: London was created. Although it was a fairly solid game, it was not able to reach expectations and costs, and ultimately had to shut its doors.
A small game, also died with it that day, Mythos. Mythos is a cartoony diablo clone, but you can’t really say that because it’s made by the same people. Technicalities aside, when Hellgate went down, so did the dreams of releasing Mythos, until HanbitSoft Inc. took up the task of bringing it back to life. Months later and there were only a few bits of data being release, many thought the game was still doomed. Until…
Huh? Free Realms Has a Comic?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Yup yup!
Apparently SOE has produced a comic book based on their new game Free Realms. This comes of no surprise seeing that the game currently is holding about 3 million people captive in its cartoony world, but really, a comic book?
Heads Up: Massively Is Hiring MMO Bloggers
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
At RezPLS, we like to approach the community with open arms (probably because we’re just launching but maybe more because an active and sharing community benefits us all). With that being said, taking a gander over at Massively, and low and behold, they are hiring.
Massively Speaking Episode 65: NDA drop edition
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
New Episode Yo!
A new podcast of Massively Speaking has been uploaded and ready for your ears to give a listen.
What to expect?
This time around Kyle Horner and Colin Brennan get down and dirty with Fallen Earth and Champions Online.
Whodawhutz is Massively Speaking?
Massively Speaking is a weekly (usually) podcast where current mmorpg issues and news are discussed on lengthy ends. With a bit of sarcasm and humor, Massively Speaking is a good way to get caught up with mmo news incase you’re not already subscribing to RSS feeds and Twitter. Now in its 65th episode, quite has evolved over time, along with the slip of sanity as the show progresses.
Check it out!
http://www.massively.com/2009/08/19/massively-speaking-episode-65-nda-drop-edition/