Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sony Online Entertainment Announce EverQuest Expansion UnderFoot Is Out Now
EverQuest Underfoot Brings:
New Content: New areas for adventurers to explore including Brell's Rest, Pellucid Grotto, The Underquarry, Brell's Arena, The Foundation, The Cooling Chamber, Arthicrex, Lichen Creep, Kernagir the Shining City, Fungal Forest, Volska's Husk, and Brell's Temple. Players can travel into Underfoot solo, with a group, or in raids to complete new quests, tasks, and events to acquire new items, spells, tradeskill recipes, and abilities.
New Achievement System: Users can display and manage their progress through the world of Norrath. The achievement system allows players to track various categories of their advancement such as levels, Alternate Advancements, quest completions, and other progression tracking events. At the launch of Underfoot, players can track their General, Tradeskill and Underfoot progression Achievements.
Extended Target Window: Players can now track friends and foes with greater accuracy. The target window now lets players assign people or group roles to specific locations on the window for easy re-targeting. Users can track main tank, raid tanks, main target, main assist, puller, etc., or just put a specific player or NPC in the window.
Master Tradeskilling: Tradeskillers can create powerful new weapons, armor, food and drink items, poisons and more.
UnderFoot
Press Release
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – DECEMBER 15, 2009 – Online gamers can now immerse themselves in EverQuest® Underfoot™, the latest expansion from the genre-defining massively multiplayer online game by Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE). Underfoot is the unparalleled 16th expansion for the EverQuest franchise, and is available today via digital download at www.everquest.com for the suggested retail price of $39.99.
“Celebrating a decade of EverQuest throughout this year has reinvigorated our community and development team alike, and that passion is clearly on display with the latest expansion,” said Thom Terrazas, Producer, Sony Online Entertainment. “Underfoot presents a world unlike anything you've experienced in Norrath, providing a deep and fun experience for all our players.”
To further demonstrate SOE’s commitment to its player community, on December 17th, the online resourcewww.EQPlayers.com will be included at no additional cost for EverQuest players with an active, paid subscription in good standing.
About EverQuest Underfoot:
New Content: New areas for adventurers to explore including Brell's Rest, Pellucid Grotto, The Underquarry, Brell's Arena, The Foundation, The Cooling Chamber, Arthicrex, Lichen Creep, Kernagir the Shining City, Fungal Forest, Volska's Husk, and Brell's Temple. Players can travel into Underfoot solo, with a group, or in raids to complete new quests, tasks, and events to acquire new items, spells, tradeskill recipes, and abilities.
New Achievement System: Users can display and manage their progress through the world of Norrath. The achievement system allows players to track various categories of their advancement such as levels, Alternate Advancements, quest completions, and other progression tracking events. At the launch of Underfoot, players can track their General, Tradeskill and Underfoot progression Achievements.
Extended Target Window: Players can now track friends and foes with greater accuracy. The target window now lets players assign people or group roles to specific locations on the window for easy re-targeting. Users can track main tank, raid tanks, main target, main assist, puller, etc., or just put a specific player or NPC in the window.
Master Tradeskilling: Tradeskillers can create powerful new weapons, armor, food and drink items, poisons and more.
For more information and in-game rewards EverQuest players are encouraged to signup for SOE ConnecDing at http://www.station.sony.com/promotions/
About Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless markets. Known for its blockbuster franchises and hit titles including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, Untold Legends™, and PlanetSide®, as well as for developing Star Wars Galaxies™, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and the creation of active player communities while introducing new genres on various entertainment platforms. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, with additional development studios in Austin, TX; Seattle, WA; Denver, CO; Tucson, AZ and Taiwan, SOE has an array of cutting-edge games in development.
SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest, PlanetSide, and Champions of Norrath are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. Untold Legends is a trademark of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.
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PS3: Sony looked at making the PS3 even smaller than the slim they released, using Flash memory or save data on the PSN http://ow.ly/LUcM
Warner Bros. Have confirmed that they hold the publishing rights to Batman Arkham Asylum, and that Eidos do not. http://ow.ly/LUeu
Amazon.com have listings for Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 on both the DS and Wii. http://ow.ly/LUg4
PS3: Braid is set to come out in the UK on the PSN on December 17th http://ow.ly/LUh2
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GameStop have Dead Space II as coming out in early 2011 http://ow.ly/LUhX
Square Enix's Akitoshi Kawazu has said he wants the Final Fantasy franchise to go on forever, http://ow.ly/LUjs
Famitsu reveals Japanese actress Aya Hirono is working on a new game for Capcom, its thought to be a new Monster Hunter http://ow.ly/LUkP
360: its being reported that a "Private Match hack" glitch is becoming popular on the 360 version of Modern Warfare 2 http://ow.ly/LUoc
UK Game Charts, Modern Warfare 2, Wii Sports Resort, Assassins Creed II, Wii Fit plus, FIFA 10 are top 5 http://ow.ly/LUpq
PS3: AdHoc Party has a tentative release date of 22nd December for Europe. http://ow.ly/LXi4
Dante's Inferno runs at 60fps, whilst the cut-scenes run at 30 fps. http://ow.ly/LXk5
PS3: Star Ocean The Last Hope will have new characters and new character portraits. http://ow.ly/LXma
QTE Blog: Nintendo Releases It's USA Q1 Wii, WiiWare, DS, DSiWare Release Calendar http://ow.ly/169uxp
PS3: Digital Foundry look at Mini's on PS3. Emulator a work in progress. 2D games ok, 3D games can struggle + more http://ow.ly/LYxw
Wii: Blue and Pink WiiMotes are coming out in USA on February 14th. they will come bundled with WiiMotion Plus http://ow.ly/LYGs
Its being reported that Recoil Games have put Earth No More on Hold whilst they work on smaller titles. http://ow.ly/LYL3
PS3: Sony has talked about Monthly Fees when discussing the PSN and costs. they are looking at many ways to make money http://ow.ly/LYQt
Its reported that Europe will get a Limited Collectors Edition for Final Fantasy XIII, no specifics were mentioned http://ow.ly/LYRL
QTE Blog: Microsoft Has Released A New Trailer For Crackdown 2 http://ow.ly/169wbW
QTE Blog: Disney Interactive Reveal Tron Evolution Details http://ow.ly/169x5z
QTE Blog: 2K Reveal Spec Ops The Line Details http://ow.ly/169x5A
QTE Blog: EA Reveal That A Army Of Two The 40th Day Demo Is Coming Out December 17th http://ow.ly/169zk1
QTE Blog: Sony Announce The SingStar Viewer For The Playstation 3 http://ow.ly/169zk2
360: Square Enix is releasing 0 Day Attack On Earth on December 23rd http://ow.ly/M4hn
360: There are reports of matchmaking issues on the 360. a fix is already in the works http://ow.ly/M4hY
Left 4 Dead 2 DLC, The Passing, will feature the cast from Left 4 Dead. its coming out early 2010. http://ow.ly/M4jt
QTE Blog: This Weeks WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases http://ow.ly/169AHg
QTE Blog: EA And BioWare Announce That Dragon Age Origins Is Coming To Mac's On December 21st http://ow.ly/169AHh
DSi: DSi LL could've been called DSi Executive or DSi Deka, DSi Premium, DSi Living, or DSi Comfort http://ow.ly/M4kR
Wii: Development on Zelda is well underway. hope to show the game at E3. http://ow.ly/M4my
PC: Actor Zachary Quinto, Spock in new Star Trek Movie, Will voice the tutorial EMH in Star Trek Online http://ow.ly/M4vt
QTE Blog: IDW Are Working On Audio Commentaries For PSP Digital Comics http://ow.ly/169BHA
QTE Blog: Funcom Announce A Unlimited Free Trial Offer For Age Of Conan Hyborian Adventures http://ow.ly/169BHB
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Funcom Announce A Unlimited Free Trial Offer For Age Of Conan Hyborian Adventures
Funcom have announced that if users sign up to the Trial for Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures before January 1st 2010, they can play the entire island of Tortage for free. this means users can play levels 1-20 for free in Funcoms Unlimited Free Trial For Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.Press Release
DURHAM, N.C. --(Business Wire)-- Dec 14, 2009 Funcom is delighted to announce a unique holiday offer for its massively multiplayer online game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’. Anyone who downloads, registers, and starts playing the trial before January 1st 2010 will be able to enjoy all of level one to twenty – the entire Island of Tortage experience – without ever having to upgrade to a full account or pay a subscription fee. This unique Unlimited Free Trial campaign is only available until January 1st as a special holiday offer to anyone who wishes to experience the sexy and savage world of Conan.
“Our original seven day trial has been very successful so far,” says Morten Larssen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Funcom. “But with the holiday season coming up this is the perfect time to shake up our trial offer a bit and try out something new. So everyone who downloads the trial before January 1st will be able to play the first part of the game for free, forever. We are confident that many of those taking advantage of this offer will choose to become permanent players, allowing them to experience all of what the game has to offer including all the additions and improvements introduced since launch.”
Celebrate the holiday season by downloading the trial today, and experience ‘Age of Conan’ in all its savage, sexy and brutal glory. Go towww.ageofconan.com/trial to download the client and start your barbaric adventures today. Players can level up as many characters as they want before choosing to move on and explore the rest of the game. Players will be able to enjoy all of what Tortage Island has to offer, complete with player vs. environment and player vs. player gameplay. Users must take advantage of this offer before January 1st, and will need to log in to the game for the offer to take effect.
Launching in May last year ‘Age of Conan’ quickly became a smash hit in retail, shipping over 1.2 million copies around the world. In North America, the most prominent online gaming market in the west, ‘Age of Conan’ became the third best-selling PC title of the year in 2008. In the weeks after launch ‘Age of Conan’simultaneously topped the charts in 17 countries, and the game received critical acclaim from gaming press across the globe. ‘Age of Conan’ is now available in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Polish localized versions, and is being prepared for launch in Korea as well.
For more information and how to purchase ‘Age of Conan’ please visit www.ageofconan.com
ABOUT FUNCOM - Funcom is an independent developer and publisher of online games for PC, consoles and mobile platforms. Funcom has provided outstanding entertainment since 1993 and continues to expand its track-record of more than twenty released games. Recent titles include 'The Longest Journey', 'Anarchy Online' and 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'. For corporate information please visit. For information about Funcom games visit http://www.anarchy-online.com www.dreamfall.com, www.darkdaysarecoming.com or www.ageofconan.com. Funcom is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker FUNCOM.
ABOUT CONAN PROPERTIES INTERNATIONAL - Conan Properties International LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paradox Entertainment Inc., controls rights to Conan, many associated characters and the Hyborian world, as created by Robert E. Howard and various rights expanded upon by many acclaimed authors and artists. Many consider Conan the world's best-known fantasy character. For more information about Conan Properties International LLC, visit www.conan.com. For information about Paradox Entertainment Inc., visit www.paradox-entertainment.com.
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