DC Comics Universe Online NO Monthly Fee?

DC Universe Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in the DC Universe. SOE hopes to make a different kind of MMORPG, with The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction being cited as one of the main inspirations for gameplay. SOE is working to make DC Universe Online more interactive than standard MMORPGs, while trying to keep key elements of RPGs, which include a leveling system and inventories. The world is mainly shared, public space instead of heroes or villains owning territory. The public space features dynamically-generated content designed for both hero and villain player characters (uniquely created by the player, who cannot choose DCU stalwarts), which may lead to interesting Player Versus Player battles.

It is known that players choose a city of origin for their character, the currently known cities being Metropolis and Gotham City. Another location currently known to be in the game is Arkham Asylum, Gotham City’s mental institution for criminals (including a number of Batman’s more psychopathic enemies, such as the Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, and Two-Face). The character is given either a Justice League or a Legion of Doom communicator – depending on their choice of playing as either a hero or a villain – and the character’s allegiance will affect how the game is played; for example, a hero character may encounter a thug robbing an armored truck while a villain character will instead rob (or, depending on character level, assist in the robbing of) said armored truck. It is also known that player characters have threat ratings which will cause both heroes and villains alike to interact accordingly with the character.

DC Universe Online or DCUO is a MMORPG being developed by Sony Online Austin. Jim Lee serves as the game’s Executive Creative Director, along with Carlos D’Anda, JJ Kirby, Oliver Nome, Eddie Nunez, Livio Ramondelli, and Michael Lopez. EverQuest developers Chris Cao and Shawn Lord are also involved. When asked whether the game would require a monthly subscription to play, or free to play, Sony’s Wes Yanagi gave OneLastContinue a very strong impression that they are leaning towards the expansion-pack business model, as opposed to the traditional subscription fee although such matters hadn’t been solidified yet over at Sony Online Entertainment.

According to various website the new mmo superhero game from SONY will have no monthly fee, after buying the game it will be free to play, a similar business model like Guild Wars. These are just rumors, btw i think wouldn’t be bad to do a trip to Metropolis or Gotham City.

The game has been scheduled for release between late 2009 and early 2010.

LINK to Official Site

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Tags: comic, DC, f2p, fee, hero, MMO, monthly, super, Universe

From STO Website:
We’re all very happy to be able to let you know that Star Trek Online will be in Open Beta from January 12 – January 26, 2010. Keys will be given out on a first come, first served basis, and can be acquired right here on startrekonline.com. We know you’ve all been eagerly anticipating your chance to experience the Star Trek Universe in a way that only Star Trek Online will allow, and we can’t wait for you all to beam aboard this great adventure in January!

Link to STO Official Site

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Tags: beta, cb, closed, MMO, online, open, star, trek

Recently i watched Star Trek 2009 movie.
Is it possible to destroy a saga, simply with one movie? Yes, that’s what they did.
I like Star Trek Universe, i liked this movie and probably many enjoyed it, but among other little things this movie has a big problem: THE STORY. As director J.J.Abrams said he wanted to do a Star Trek movie in the style of Star Wars, well he did a pretty good job, actually the film plays and feels exactly like a Star Wars Movie, the problem is he erased completely Star Trek. Re-invented, Reboot, starting from zero, this was made pretty good in BattleStar Galactica (except for the finale), but in my opinion with Star Trek they went too far.
Now let’s go in order to explain this ‘masterpiece’:
STOP reading here if you haven’t watched this movie yet, the following text contains spoilers!

-The EnterPrise Bridge looks like a giant I-Pod (white)
-Why Romulus can’t be evacuated?
-How the hell a miner-ship is close to the super nova?
-Once Nero jumps, why he don’t go to Romulus warning them that the star will die in 130 years?
-If the Star goes SuperNova, or it’s transformed in a black hole, Romulus is doomed.. so why the Hell is Spock ‘s fault?
-Vulcan is destoryed and with it, hundreds of stories and great moments in movies 2 and 3.
-Where is the Vulcan Fleet?
-When Nero attacks Earth, where are the Planetary defense? Not even a catapult?
-When Vulcan and entire race is destroyed there is no epic, i mean Enterprise crew feels emotionless, probably they are thinking what to eat at dinner?
-The Enterprise engine rooms looks like a 20th century power plant…
-The StarFleet Accademy looks like a high-school assembly…
-If they can transport (beam) people on unthinkable distances (thanks to Scotty’s future formula) why they just don’t use it to kill Nero and his crew?
-Where are the ‘Time Cops’? If you watched the series you know they prevent timeline to alter.
-In the movie they say the star (going supernova) could destroy the galaxy.. well ok they don’t give details, the Q Race can’t do that cause The Guardians wouldn’t allow and scientifically we can’t deny (nor prove) something like this exist, but man this sounds like a bad lazy joke.
-At the end of the movie there is no reset. This alternative timeline is the new timeline.

Ok as a movie if you don’t think too much it’s a nice movie, the battles, the visuals, the action, and some good actors too, i think one of the mistakes was to call this Star Trek 2009, just call it Star Trek Re-invented or Star Trek New Universe. This could have been a great movie and in many parts it is, but it feels more like a half-finished commercial product. I will watch the second movie (2011?) but from now i know the old Star Trek is no more.. I am not an ‘integralist’ trekkie anyway, just a fan.
They will never do, but one can hope they will do a proper finale for the old saga, The Nemesis finale wasn’t good at all.. it was too much ‘burocratic’.
Thanks for reading my rants.

Farewell Star Trek..

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Tags: 2009, abram, destory, MOVIE, remake, star, trek

CB starts 25th November 2009

Avalon Heroes is an MMORPG mixing the real-time strategy and role-playing elements. Its strategy mode is based on Blizzard’s hit title Warcraft 3, while its scenario and adventure content has been greatly extended. There are two factions in Avalon Heroes, Aeonia and Oriens. Players not only can receive decent rewards from completing quests, but also they can obtain special equipment or items through forming a party and adventuring in instances.

AVALON HEROES offers more than 100 unique heroes, exciting single-player scenario campaigns, breathtaking battles and a high focus on strategy, well-known from the successful game modification DoTA for WarCraft III.

LINK TO AVALON HEROES

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Tags: avalon, fantasy, heroes, MMO, RTS, strategy, Warcraft

(UT40K The Chosen)

Well i am pretty sure that most of you already know UT3 Engine sdk (UDK) are available for everyone, that’s right, theorically everyone now has the power to make games like Gears of War 2..

This means modders can publish (free or commercial) their mods, or startin from scratch create a brand new game! I browsed the net and found this interesting projects.. and you? Do you plan on making a game with UDK?

Here a short list:
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Tags: alone, engine, epic, sdk, Stand, Tournament, udk, unreal

DETAILS ARE EVERYTHING.

Biggest selling video game in history? So It seems..
Let’s make things clear, this game is identical in all three version (PC,X360,PS3) which means on PC no dedicated servers, and online matchmaking restricted to 9 vs 9.
This is not the best game ever made, but if you like FPS it is one of the most enjoyable, i think details are amazing, as you can see in the screenshot, there is the c-130 chaff and flare ‘Angel’ (a real class touch in my opinion) or in the screenshot of the gunfight you can see so many details one doesn’t even notice during the fury of the fight, but they are still there.. The single-player is short, multiplayer is identical to console (limited from a pc-gamer point of view), the russian version of the game does not include a controversial scene that allowed the player to shoot at innocent civilians in a Moscow airport.
Did i buy this game? no, but just beacouse i feel it is overpriced and the way is made now multiplayer part of the game is not attracting me. In my opinion this game started and was designed for console (xbox,ps3) and pc version is just a straight port, obviously the PC Gaming is not dead but outside the World of WarCraft i don’t see a lot of freshness..

Some of you remeber the name of one of CoD 4 characters? Coz i can’t.. While i am pretty sure most of you knows who is Snake.

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Tags: 2, call, cod, duty, modern, record, review, talk, thoughts, warfare

A Danish advocacy group made this web campaign, to raise awareness about the violence over women.
Basically a flashgame where you must ‘smash’ a woman, noble intentions but in my opinion it fails.

LINK to the ‘Game’

With all the respect to DenMark, they should take attention to what happens every year in the Fær Øer Islands, where hundreds of Dolphins-Whales (which are in extreme danger of extiction) are massacrated for a (stupid) tradition, the dolphins are killed in a brutal way, some got eaten after but most are left still alive to face an horrible and painful death.

LINK to Whale Massacre Video
WARNING THE VIDEO CONTAINS SHOCKING IMAGES,
DON’T WATCH IF YOU ARE NOT ADULT.

Tags: bitch, danish, denmark, dolphins, flash, hit, massacre, whale

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web. It aims to provide users with a fast, simple and secure computing experience. Netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available to consumers late next year (2010).

LINK

Bullshit or good stuff? I really dunno.. Could be interesting to get this with a 100 us dollars computer (but i am pretty sure that the google-pc will cost a bit more), to just surf the web or use office applications, BUT the fact that your files are stored online it ‘s a thing i can’t accept.

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Tags: chrome, google, operative, os, System

There is a new version of the SDK available for download.

I wonder how many free and stand-alone mods will come out in the next months..
They should make the current UT free,too, don’t you think?

UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations. The best tools in the industry are in your hands.

Anyone. Everyone. You. Unreal Engine 3 has been used by game developers, researchers, television studios, machinima directors, artists and students. If you have an idea that needs to be brought to life in a game engine, UDK is for you.

Only UDK has the power, flexibility and track record of Unreal Engine 3. These tools have been proven with countless releases and dozens of awards. There is no better way to make awesome games than with UE3.

Use of the UDK for noncommercial purposes is free of charge. If you are going to use the UDK for any commercial purpose or in any way that is not specifically authorized in the end-user license agreement (EULA), you must agree to appropriate commercial terms.

Download Free UDK BETA 2

Download Free UDK BETA 1

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Tags: 2009, beta, compiler, development, game, GAMEMAKER, gear, indie, kit, November, sdk, udk, unreal, War

This webiste was hacked for the second time in its history. It should be fixed now, BUT Google keep telling visitors (that use firefox) that this site is dangerous and contains malware.  If  i fixed everything the warning should give away in a couple of days (when google crawler comes here and review the site and update its blacklist). If you are a firefox user you may wish consider manually clean your browser cache or the warning will keep displaying..

If you have any suggestions, they are welcome. It’s high probable that when you will click to comment the Warning will show, be sure..
this website is safe to browse and use.

Tags: ban, block, g4g, google, hacked