XGR Lord of the Rings Interview: Paligap from XGR send's this our way: Who doesn't like Lord Of The Rings, right? Ok, loser with his hand up - sit down! Well, there is a slew of LOTR stuff out there and coming with the new movie getting ready this fall. To help you weed through some of that we have a great interview for you tonight - Vijay Lakshman, VP Product/Internal Development for Black Label Games. Black Label Games (and others) are the ones responsible for Vivendi/Universal's games based on the books of the Lord Of The Rings. Vijay is the man behind the whole plan to keep the different versions of the different titles straight and running smoothly, full of creative content, and a great gaming experience. We sat down for a chat with him about their first title, Fellowship of the Ring, and much more. TUNE IN TONIGHT AT 9:30PMEST FOR VIJAY LAKSHAMN XGR RADIO uses the Winamp and Shoutcast Technology. Kinda late notice, but still time to make it, head over! Posted October 30 2002 by Div Devlin

Astonia Patch: Astonia had a patch which added new content, check it: The new patch includes another part of the Labyrinth Quest™. Ishtar, Astonia's mighty God, created these quests to prepare the warriors and mages of Astonia for the fateful fight against the Gate Keeper. In the new part of the Labyrinth Quest™ the players have to defeat three evil Demon Lords, using a combination of combat and magic. The patch also adds a brand-new feature to the game, the Ice Caves. This area introduces elements of strategic gameplay to the world of Astonia, as the players have to lead a small army of soldiers into battle in order to gain control over the precious platinum mines. These feature quests are rockin. Posted October 30 2002 by Div Devlin

In DE News: Stratics after hosting numerous developer chats with the folks from Dragon Empires finally realized that their massive network does not have a dedicated DE Fansite. That changed finally with a pleased announcment, following a House of Commons chat in which Peter Tyson had to be awake at 3:40am due to time differences. Ouch! Remember, it's for the fans! Peter tells everyone: This Wednesday we hit a new milestone in the client build so I hope to be able to bring you all some cool new screenshots very soon now. Coolness! In case you missed it, there is also a new "Developer Diary" to read. This one is from one of the programmers about the exciting world of... pathing! Last but not least, they are hiring a DBA/Interactive Tools Developer, you need to be in the U.K. and RPG Vault has Q&A #11 up covering the weather and world system. Posted October 30 2002 by Div Devlin

Today in Earth and Beyond: There is a new "Glimpse Inside Article" in which they tell us about the Tradeskills and related abilities available in Earth & Beyond. Tomorrow (October 31, 2001) is the Final Deadline for the Founders Federation program, if you are not in it yet. The Founder's program rewards beta testers by letting them carry their beta characters into the retail version of the game. Earth & Beyond testers who wish to transfer their characters into the final game need to purchase and register the retail version of the game by Oct. 31. After that day, beta characters will be wiped from game servers. Why start all over when you can have an already established character, ship, and get a cool Founders logo? Maybe I should install it, register and get a review done. Without PvP though... Posted October 30 2002 by Div Devlin

Today in Shadowbane: Vosx said he had the Canadian Flu (or something Monday) so it was not until late yesterday that he managed to get out of bed, sick... tired... hungry... miserable... all for the fans, to release the second part of the one-on-one interview with Dreadflame, which you can download. Go Vosx! Heather, your Hostess for the Shadowbane Player Lunch this November 17th, has issued her first newsletter regarding it with all the info you need, if your not on the newsletter you can find the same info on the site. Guest list includes 8 of the Shadowbane developers from Wolfpack coming, and a few players. Be sure to check it out. No, I'm not going. Ok, we goofed. We ran into a problem regarding the prizes for the RP Contest we held. We notifed folks. We dropped the ball, as an E-Mail or two bounced. Thanks to The Greenman for pointing it out. I've kicked the Prize Department (Maestro) into getting those taken care of. Posted October 30 2002 by Div Devlin

UO: House Decay Delayed! If you have been lazy (cough-cough) the past week and know you needed to log into Ultima to refresh your 20 something buildings on your multiple accounts, decay has yet again been pushed back: Most players will agree that anything that affects housing in Ultima Online is obviously a high-impact change. With this in mind, and seeing that we're still working out some network issues, we're going to keep on auto-refresh for a few more weeks. We understand that some of our players are eagerly awaiting an opportunity to place houses in soon-to-be-vacant spots, and we apologize for the inconvenience caused by the delay, but our top priority has to be making sure that there are no other problems in the service that could cause issues for homeowners once we turn off auto-decay. Our current estimate for re-instating house decay is mid-November. Claiming of ownerless houses will remain available to players until Phase 3 takes effect. We will make another update about Phase 3 of housing once we have a firm date, and we thank you very much for your patience. That works for me. Posted October 30 2002 by Div Devlin

Editorial: Mods gone bad. Deyth from The Combine has a new article up where he vents after getting two warnings on his board account due to a new mod within the PvP Community for saying, bad things. Mods are wusses. Mods who volunteer for 4 hours a day to troll a forum, reading every single message for that one person who said a bad thing, regardless of how much the defend themselves for having a life. Have none. In a part of Deyth's article he writes: Does anyone really believe that the users on a PvP server board or irc channel care if the word shit or fuck is being thrown around like free candy? No. Only the mods do. In reality, the mods are the only ones that require the moderation. Tru-dat. Check it! Posted October 24 2002 by Div Devlin

EnB: Trick or Treat! Earth and Beyond is to be haunted with Halloween festivities. Halloween brings new quests, monsters and items to the galaxy October 31. The update that Westwood is releasing for the game Oct. 30 will provide players with content for an in-game Halloween event to happen Oct. 31. The event is open to all players, and will hold to the game's fiction while offering several new Halloween activities. These include such things as costumes and pumpkin projectiles that will affect both the players' in-game starships and avatars. Players who wish to participate in the festivities can log on anytime Oct. 31. In addition to the in-game event, Westwood is hosting a Halloween contest on the game's official website, www.earthandbeyond.com The contest, called 'Megan's Masquerade,' invites contestants to create a Halloween costume for the game's digital assistant, Megan. Beginning Oct. 25, entrants can submit digital images of their costumes via the game's website. Winners will be selected by Westwood Nov. 8, and will receive Earth & Beyond paraphernalia. Sounds... Uhm... Spacey! As well as celebrating Halloween, October 30th brings in the first of new monthy updates to the game, with the first set of features to include: * New missions for all character archetypes. * New unique items that are dropped when players kill high-level monsters. * A speed increase to all ships while planet side. * Improved item drops for mid- to high-level monsters. * Additional information on trade good items. * Graphical enhancements to combat. * Enhancements to the embedded browser. While this is old news, those who were hoping for PvP in this game. Forget about it. Even if it goes in, it's going to be another EA system that never get's support. Per MobiusX, "E&B is primarily a PvE (player vs. environment) game. As such, any PvP designs will be secondary to core gameplay." Posted October 24 2002 by Div Devlin

Lots of Shadowbane Love: Two new movie interviews up on the main Shadowbane site. This time with Belthior and a second interview with Nazgul (Outside of the armor). Meanwhile the Herald have a new story up, this one called "A Traitor at the Gate" tell us the tale of how peace did not last so long in the enlarged world of Aerynth as distance does not stop war. Good read. Heather host of Playerslunch.com reknown for the UO PlayerLunches is teaming up with J from SB.Warcry to host the first Shadowbane Players Lunch by the players for the players (not that anyone is playing) this November 17th, at noon in the Bard's Glen inside the Texas Renaissance Festival down in Plantersville, Texas. Check out the site for details, and the impressive guest list of folks from Wolfpack who will be attending. If it were not the holiday's I might of gone. Posted October 24 2002 by Div Devlin

Sims Beta Contest: If you are one of the few people looking for a chance to get into The Sims Online beta, Arcadian DelSol is running a contest. Answer 10 questions from gaming past and be entered into a random drawing of winners. Hurry though, contest ends Friday the 25th. Arcadian's "my big fat greek contest". Good luck! Posted October 24 2002 by Div Devlin

UO: Tournament of Champions Atlantic shard winners for the Ultima Online hosted "Tournament of Champions" have been announced. The winners for round one being Oz and White Wizard who will advance to represent their shard in the final bouts on the Test Center shard. Which according to Henarr from UOPowergamers was a Half Baked Event if you were a spectator. He tells us all about his three hours of misery trying to view the event. Posted October 24 2002 by Div Devlin

From around town: Arcadian Del Sol: Everyone knows Arcadian Del Sol as he often has some great articles, and is one of the bestest-bestest writers around town. But, did you know he has a comic that sucks also? In this latest issues of "God on Games" Unknown Player and Mark Jacob's have an appearance. Biting the Hand: Jessica Mulligan of Biting the Hand has her new article up titled "Online Console-ation Revisited" giving us the then and now on online console gaming. Groones World: Mighty Groone is looking for some beta testers! If you are part of a guild and want to score some free software for guild management, check out his latest version of his "Guild Leader" program.b Help him test, and he'll give ya a free key. It's rocking program, and best of all, it's free! Donations help though. UnknownPlayer: UnknownPlayer will be hosting a developer chat today with Terry Park, Steve Dobos and Paul Philleo from Shattered Galaxies in an open forum at 4:30 pm Pacific in IRC. Posted October 17 2002 by Div Devlin

Sims Interview at Homelan: Homelan has an interview up with the folks from The Sims Online in which they talk with Maxis' Chris Trottier. Check it. Posted October 17 2002 by Div Devlin

Shadowbane Thursday: Ubi Soft updated the Shadowbane site with a new Bard Tale (who work for the Heralds), this being The Aerynthian Codex, a newbies travel guide within the lands of Aerynth. 5 pages of great reading. If these folks do not get paid for writing this stuff, they should be! (Cheap Shot, I know. It's all in fun!) Ragnorok who has been a registered member of the Shadowbane community since 2-10-01 made an interesting observation mirrored by many: I'm tired of screenies. I've seen too many. I don't care about screenies anymore. I just wanna play the game! We feel your pain dewd. For everyone else though, there are 11 screenshots up on BluesNews and 11 screenshots on ALLRpg (which look the same as BluesNews?)which can also be found on Adrenaline Vault as well as a few new ones in this Article on Races by GameSpy which is a two page summary, written by the Wolfpack-Team? Oh, and no, none of the dedicated Fan Sites, nor were we given any of the latest batch of screenies or pre-penned articles, we aer teh sux. And what Thursday would be complete without "Bash Ubi Soft Thursday?" Over on PKer.org is a report of Horizon from The Pluggers guild getting banned from Beta for an incident with a CCR: Horizon got his beta account banned for pointing out a possible abuse of power that a ccr representive purposly interfered with regular gameplay to help a friend in a rival guild. We are hearing mixed signals on why he was banned, so we're just going to leave this one alone for now. Luckliy they have also posted a statement regarding the banning from Zelnik for your reading pleasure. Discuss: So much for exclusives? Posted October 17 2002 by Div Devlin

CoH Comic: City Of Heroes announced that their lead designer Rick Dakkan penned a Comic book on this upcoming MMOG published by Dark Horse Comics that can be found at comic conventions. Issue #1 will most likely become a collector's issue, with no present plans for a follow-up. Congrats to War Lady who won a premier issue signed. Check out the Cover! Posted October 16 2002 by Div Devlin

EnB Glimpse Inside: Earth and Beyond's newest Glimpse Inside article is up which takes us in a behind-the-scenes look that tells us about their patching process. More players are joining up in this MMORPG in space everyday, and Sci-Fi magazine just gave them a good review to boot. Posted October 16 2002 by Div Devlin

Project Entropia News Flash: Project Entropia has a new and improved, more user-friendly website. Infobooth 3.0 has been completely overhauled and redesigned into Infobooth 4.0. The new site has been operating for almost two weeks now, which has been a sort of trial period. The Web Dept. has used the time to fix bugs only visible when the site is run live and in public mode. But now it is time to join the ever-growing community. Make new friends or reject them if you wish, upload a photo and give PE enthusiasts a look at the real you, take part in a live web java chat, register in one of the new societies or have your say in the various forum boards. The opportunities are endless. Come and see what you've been missing.. They also send word: When you visit our official site at www.project-entropia.com, don't forget to look for the Project Entropia Fanzine on the front page. That's right. The inaugural issue of The Gate is now available. A magazine dedicated to you, the fan. Get the latest news from MindArk, meet a member of our staff, hear adventures from Calypso, read reviews of in world items, learn about PE participants and societies, and so on. What are you waiting for? Go download the PDF file now. Cool. They have been kind of quiet now, and now we know why. Check it. Posted October 16 2002 by Div Devlin

Shadowbane Updates: Chris "Vosx" Mancil celebrates the Big 30 Birthday yesterday, now making him in the "Over The Hill Age Group." Dewd, your biological clock is ticking. Happy Birthday from all of us here, hope your year is a great one! PC.IGN takes a preview in this article about The Tree of Life in Shadowbane. A New video interview is up and running, this time with Wolfpack Studio's Dreadflame, who was the 13th employee to join the design team. Posted October 16 2002 by Div Devlin

UO Fixes Bugs, World Gasp's. Considering many were hating Ultima for saying fixes to some of the current frustrating bugs would not be released until AoS comes out, everyone was caught offgaurd when these fixes were announced on the FYI Page: * An issue that caused large, leather Tailoring Bulk Order Deeds to yield the same rewards, no matter which type of leather, has been fixed. Players should now receive the appropriate rewards when turning in large, high-level Tailoring BODs. * An issue that caused the paints given out in Elwood's Quest to become stuck in an "in use" state has been resolved. * Blade spirits and energy vortices should now properly attack creatures within range. Many a fan danced for joy. Meanwhile Sannio the Online Content Coordinator was interviewd by the Daily Herald in which he talks about his role and how he came to the name Sannio. Posted October 16 2002 by Div Devlin

Jihak Chung talks with us about Priest... Priest is an upcoming MMO game set in the Wild West with a horror themed feel to it, currently in development by JC Entertainment. Taking time out of their busy schedule Jason Kim and Jihak Chung chatted with us about this great looking game. Check out this detailed interview. Posted October 15 2002 by Div Devlin

MMO Gaming Trivia: Know Your History! The MMOG market has a diverse and rich history full of many events, places, people, and even failures. So, we decided to take all these things and make a quiz encompassing the many games and many years of the MMOG market. Do you think you're the elite of gaming knowledge and want to prove it, then step right on up! We have 50 Questions from MMO games past, present and future as well as the community involved in them. How many of the 50 can you get right? Take the quiz, and let us know on the board, register for the quiz and we well post the top ten higest scores next month with the answers. Here is the Quiz Posted October 14 2002 by Div Devlin

Old NwN Game: If you have been looking for a copy of the old NwN Game, look no more. A copy of NwN Offline has been found over on The-Underdogs, which seems to be the NW Knight version that made it's way around a few years ago. Has full GM capabilities, and the quests. I never made it to Triboar to see if the DM Chamber was in it so, anyone that get's over send me a screencap if it's there. Go download the zipped file. It's a lonely world. No Vault, and no character save. Posted October 14 2002 by Div Devlin

A new game! Thanks goes out to Dominic for the linkage to this new MMO Game coming soon! Can't wait and neither should you! Be sure to check it out. I think we have seen in before, but it's still funny! Posted October 14 2002 by Div Devlin

Shadowbane Marketing + Stuff: Normally this should wait until Bash Ubi Soft Thursdays, but why wait when this kinda falls into the "Oops" category. Thats what sucks about print magazines, it's two months ahead in print time, so when you get locked into advertising there is no way to back out. This is in the November CGW magazine, so don't go running to Best Buy for your copy of Shadowbane when you know it's not out yet. This is a kicking intro to Shadowbane that some fans tossed together, download it and watch. It rocks. J from SB WarCry has an interview with Ubi Soft In-Game Support Manager Nakoliss, also known as 'Dangerman.' The interview covers Nakoliss' career before joining Ubi Soft, and his thoughts about providing Customer Care to Shadowbane's future customers. Head over and give it a read. Posted October 14 2002 by Div Devlin

Pre-Order Sims: Get in beta Everyone is offering something up now to get you to pre-order their games. Now, The Sims are the latest to captialize on your pre-order spending. Yes, now if you pre-order you can get right into the beta! Pre-order The Sims Online™ and immediately receive your own Play Test CD kit. Instantly join the play test and bypass thousands of fans on the Play Test waiting list. Play with scores of other real, live Sims before the game goes live as part of the Play Test Founders program. Plus, you can tell the developers what you think needs to be fixed or what is still missing. So, don't wait. The sad thing is, I have to get this for my kid. Posted October 14 2002 by Div Devlin

Hooking with some folks ;) Plugs to these guys who I hooked up with yesterday, Axleander from Sanguine Wild, and Arithian who used to be one of our featured writer's and is GM of a guild whose name I forgot! Good gaming with ya'll! Div Posted October 12 2002 by Div Devlin

AO: The Booster Debate... The folks from AO sent us this from the AO newsletter with Trond Arne Aas, Funcom President and CEO addressing issues over the Booster debate. A snippet: Since we announced the booster pack idea a couple months ago, we have seen a lot of discussion about it on the forums and in emails to us. In addition to letting you know that we now have a name for this new product, The Notum Wars, I'd like to address concerns some of you have expressed. Read the full story to see all there is to be said, and hopefully put your concerns at ease. Full Story Posted October 11 2002 by Div Devlin

Dragon Empires: The week that was... Peter Tyson has a new dev diary up that he did, as well as a small video of the studio to answer all the folks who have asked what they look like. Also reporting from the Dragon Empires community, they have hit 85,000 beta testers signed up and waiting to test the game. Peter Tyson say's, "We'll soon hit the 100,000 we plan to allow in to beta so sign up if you haven't already or you may miss out. So, make sure you sign up! Posted October 11 2002 by Div Devlin

NwN: The week that was... How cool is this, Neverwinter Nights enhanced with new game content! From the official press release: * Kobold - Ah, kobolds... It seems so harsh to call them "monsters." They're really just... misguided - like a pet Chihuahua that can't resist growling at the neighbor's Doberman... check out this funky new Neverwinter Nights content in this preview, , and in the sample module included in the patch. * Malar Panther - It rips, it tears, it shreds, it slices, it dices, it juliennes, it's the all-new Malar Panther. This online profile has the details. Check out the real thing in the sample module included in the patch. * Content Installer Creator - The Neverwinter Nights Content Installer Creator (NWNCIC) was developed to make distributing and installing user-created content for Neverwinter as easy as possible. We also have an online tutorial to aid users with this much-requested utility. To get the new game content, Neverwinter Nights users simply press the update button on the main Neverwinter Nights screen. The 7 megabyte update will be installed automatically. This patch is the first of an ongoing series of official Neverwinter Nights content enhancements to be released by BioWare, amid an abundance of content created by members of the extremely productive Neverwinter Nights development community which has created over 1400 new adventure modules, over 100 new creatures, and over 500 other game content items. For more information about the official Neverwinter Nights community, visit http://neverwinternights.com I've been waiting for Kobolds! Also in NwN News, BioWare Corp. today announced that Neverwinter Nights was honored yesterday with an Interactive Entertainment Award (BAFTA) for Best PC Game by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. To quote the BAFTA website: "Good graphics, beautiful lighting, outstanding score and great voices round off this superb game." It's well deserved, congrats! Posted October 11 2002 by Div Devlin

Shattered Galaxy 1.5 Shattered Galaxy, the futuristic massive online warfare PC game from Nexon, will be taking huge leaps forward in game play and look and feel. Through the summer, the Shattered Galaxy development team has worked on the game's most significant evolution to date. The result of the development is the Shattered Galaxy 1.5 upgrade. Among the many advancements to look for, Shattered Galaxy 1.5 will introduce renovated and rebalanced units, a completely overhauled item library, completely new and visually striking in-game interfaces, and a host of other new game play features. The upgrade is scheduled for launch within the month of November. "Shattered Galaxy is looking both back and forward. We're bringing back the best features from our beta development period," states Terry Park, Game Director for Shattered Galaxy, "and introducing many cool, new, never-before-seen features. The combination is the best looking and playing Shattered Galaxy ever!" Shattered Galaxy provides a first-class entertainment value in the massively multiplayer online gaming genre, with a free game software download and, after activation, a competitive standard monthly subscription rate of $9.95. Set in deep space in the distant future where the remnant of humanity fights for survival and glory with cybernetic armies, Shattered Galaxy is an award-winning massive online warfare game for the PC. To download the current version of Shattered Galaxy and to find out more about Shattered Galaxy 1.5, visit http://www.sgalaxy.com Posted October 11 2002 by Div Devlin

UO has some action! OSI is doing something a lot different, and not just a quest. Are you ready to Rhumbhalllllll in the OSI sponsored event, Tournament of Champions! It's pretty whacked though with the rules they are continuing to expand upon. So, go dust off your account, and see if you can keep up with the powerscroll enhanced Trammmies. Actually, I may even get involved in this. If your looking for a partner on Catskills, shoot me an email. I'm a 6x old school fencer, or a lumber hoe, 40ms ping, and use voice chat. Oh, and if you are interested there is a developer profile with Augur up. Would you like to learn more about the members of the UO Live Team? If so, be sure to visit our Comments from the Team section to meet some of the people who create and maintain the world of UO. Any words of wisdom for those that may want to be an Augur one day? Play games. Play games a lot. Play games of every genre, from puzzle games to action games, fighting games to strategy games, and of course, massively multiplayer games. When not on the computer, play card games, dice games, board games, roleplaying games. I can't stress this enough: play ALL types of games. You can learn lessons from games you might not like, and many concepts cross genres. Want to read more? Click here for the latest from the UO Live Team, now updated every week! I'm looking into this PvP thing though. Posted October 11 2002 by Div Devlin

AC2 Newsletter Released: The newest AC2 Newsletter hit mailboxes and websites announcing the following topics: 1. Download the Beta 2 Setup at FilePlanet! 2. This Week in Beta - Slow Times Logging In We're very sorry that it can take a long time and many tries to connect to the game. We are urgently investigating a server problem that causes this. Keep trying every hour or so. - Balance Changes Still Underway We are still experimenting with the balance of the game, making sure advancement comes at a satisfying pace, but not so fast you'll miss any of our amazing places, quests, or monsters. Please be patient as we tinker with this delicate balance. - Where do I go? What do I do? Be sure to look at your map in the game. Look for red X's to find dungeons. Look for blue crosses--many of these are trigger points for quests. Lastly--use Glyphs to enter Vaults for a beautiful and challenging dungeon crawl! 3. Helpful Links Go get your dosage if your still trying or want to try AC2. Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

BioWare Job Posting: Experienced Writer BioWare is looking for an experienced writer to help development on new ground-breaking role playing games. Duties will include: Primary Task: Writing dialogue. Scripting dialogue. Must be able to write interesting dialogue in a timely fashion. Secondary Tasks: Updating documentation that details the level design in the game. Coming up with story and puzzle ideas. Read on for the full skinny. Full Story Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

As the Market Turns: Just as Developers start working with Apple to give MAC gamers love, rumor comes down that Apple is about to lay off a lot of employee's. More to come as it develops. Arcadian Del Sol sell's out. Banner Advertising of Themis Group clients adorn site. Infogrames is rumored to be cutting 65percent of it's staff in the days ahead. Massive Multiplayer beats out all the competition with the first in-print magazine catering the the MMOG market. Definte thumbs up there! (Note to Maestro: Told you about this a year ago bastage!) Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

Dragon Empires Chat: Dragon Empires will be chatting it up on Stratics Radio in an interview with Peter Tyson on Tuesday 8th at 7pm EST. To listen join irc.stratics.com and join #radio and have a chat while you listen to the streamed radio interview. The Stratics Chat link is here: http://chat.stratics.com/ Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

Eve says, she is not ready yet: Eve Online the space MMO that everyone is waiting for with baited breath, as it will have PvP in it, has decided to push back thier release date to the 1st quarter of 2003 with an expected date in March. They plan to also include more testers in the coming months. As Mike "Campion" Wallace is quoted: Mike Wallis, producer of Eve at Simon & Schuster Interactive, comments on the delay. "Beta testers universally agree that the game rocks, but we're shooting for spectacular. Fans, beta testers, and the EVE ONLINE team all agree, delaying the game to fine tune the features through an extended beta period is essential to deliver a game that is 'beyond earth shattering.'" All of us were amazed at Eve when we saw it at GenCon, we can't wait. Watch this game. Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

As Norrath Turns: Would your girlfriend sleep with a GM for free stuff? Thats the opening over on the Banned of Lum the Mad, err... This is not a Coummunity as they have a good letter up from a guy, who met a gal... He was a dork, she was hot. Give it a read. She is pissed. She quit. Yet another story of a former guide following in the footsteps of Tweety ranting on all that is corrupt and wrong with the Guide program in EverQuest. Does Sony care? 800 posts all say no. Ubi Soft begins it's continued invasion of the MMORPG market bringing EverQuest to Europe in this official announcement on EQLoft, the new EU portal to all things EverQuest. They are also looking for Beta Testers. Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

NwN Chat: This Thursday, the folks from BioWare will be taking part in the first chat since NwN has been released. Here's the chat details: Who: Members of the Neverwinter Nights development team at BioWare What: Have your questions about Neverwinter Nights answered by the people who developed the game Where: The IGN Chat servers hosted by RPGVault and Neverwinter Vault IRC Client: Server: chat1.ign.com Port: 6667 Channel : #neverwinter WebChat Client: http://Chat.ign.com Channel: #neverwinter When: Thursday, October 10th 8pm(EDT), 6pm(MDT), 5pm(PDT) So if you have no plans and want to learn more, stop by! Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

And in the worlds of Aerynth... IGN PC has tossed together a combined history for Shadowbane's "Age of Twilight" giving players a good primer into the history of the games world. In a comedic interview with props, Nazghul of Wolfpack Studio's takes the leading role in this video interview about a day in his life working on Shadowbane. It's a definte must see. Huge download, well worth it. Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin

In the lands of Sosaria... This time the UO mod chose not to ban the person, but in fact called the police when a post on the boards was discovered to be a suicide note. Police arrived 30 minutes before coma sets in on victim. (Source: Fark > MassiveMultiPlayer ) Posted October 7 2002 by Div Devlin