A look into Dragon Empires Dragon Empires, a MMORPG that has the look of your typical magic/hack and slash game on the surface, is a more complex game then what one would at first think. Trying to find what sets this game out from other titles that are on the brink of release, I was able to persuade Peter Tyson, Community Liaison Manager of Dragon Empires, to answer a few questions for me. Full Story Posted July 30 2002 by Rokin

That whole Pre-Order Thang... UbiSoft has updated the main page for Shadowbane news, detailing the information from last week that caused quite the uproar on restricted races available to those who preorder the game from participating retailers. It even comes with a handy updated FAQ which clarifies that the suggested retail price for the game is not $10.00 U.S. but the pre-order price that will be discounted from the full price of the game when orders arrive. Kinda like a deposit. According to the hidden blurbage it now looks like Shadowbane will be out in N O V E M B E R of this year. Just in time for Christmas sales. How sweet. Discuss: It's Innovative! Posted July 30 2002 by Div Devlin

From Camp Earth and Beyond... From Earth and Beyond we get word that they have updated their weekly "Glimpse Inside" articles, this being the second of two parts detailing their plans on the customer support system. If you have not signed up for beta, well they want you to: We are also encouraging players to sign up for our ongoing stress testing and upcoming beta testing, if they haven't done so already. The sign-up for testing is located here. Meanwhile, they have yet to address any of the questions players to be have asked regarding the founder's program, here - here - or here. We mailed Arcturus similar questions on the subject, and well... we did not get a response either. We're sure he is looking into it though and will respond as soon as he has more information. Must be the marketing folks at EA, and everyone knows that marketing suits at publishers just suck. Discuss: Bling-Bling. Posted July 30 2002 by Div Devlin

Over 500 NwN Modules! BioWare sent us word that there are now over 500 modules for NeverWinterNights, how the hell do these folks find the time! 500 new adventure modules are now available online through the Official Neverwinter Nights community. A central resource for players, module builders and Dungeon Masters, the BioWare Neverwinter Nights community has never been busier as module authors, and fans hit the site looking for new, high-quality, Neverwinter Nights adventure modules. You can check the full story below for the full press release. Full Story Posted July 30 2002 by Div Devlin

NwN new features... BioWare sends word if your an addict to this game like me currently, they have updated the official community site with ton's of new features. Read on: The Live Team has been slaving away over Hot CPUs to bring you this sweet goodness - The Neverwinter Nights Community site now offers a bunch of new features making it easier to find new Modules, Content, and a swack of other new things: Links Directory - searchable list of community sites in categories such as Modules, Tutorials and Guides, News, Guilds, Scripting, Worlds, Art, Utilities - soon we will add the ability for users to submit their own links Module Lists - we will be listing the Top Rated modules from Neverwinter Vault - providing the community with easier access to modules created by the community by listing the Vault's top modules, and indexing sites that host modules in our searchable links directory Visit the site, check out the new and improved functionality, and try out some of the new, fan created, modules...there's some very good adventures out there! Thanks for the word, but why Neverwinter Vault? Posted July 27 2002 by Div Devlin

In Shadowbane News… In Shadowbane news, the marketing promotion that was offering the three restricted races (unlocked) if you pre-ordered your game copy through EBWorld has been pulled. J from Shadowbane WarCry asked the Asian Publisher of Shadowbane, En-Tranz, if they would be offering similar promotions as the one UbiSoft is having. Kegien the Community Manager there replied, ”The Asia-Pacific version of Shadowbane will not be marketed this way. This is Ubi Soft's call alone.” In other Shadowbane news they have a new beta journal up to whet your attitude to crush titled The Reconstruction. Posted July 27 2002 by Div Devlin

UO: Red Wipe & BYF! In the fine tradition of being a day late and a dollar short, Ultima updated the FYI page explaining that the one time wipe of murder counts to all players was to resolve a bug issue with the epic spawn of the Harrower creature that was giving murder counts to player's it killed. They tell us: The decision was made to issue a reprieve, and it was done. This reprieve is granted to each character as they enter Britannia—as each character logs into UO, all of that characters short- and long-term murder counts will set to zero. This reprieve will only happen once per character. It was also preplanned not to let everyone know in advance to curb the massive red-fest that would of followed: Once this decree was made, we concluded it was best to not make a formal announcement until the reprieve was activated on all shards, for fear of unscrupulous people taking this opportunity to enter killing frenzies on multiple shards, anticipating that at the end of the day their murders would essentially have zero repercussions. Thanks for keeping the players up to date on what the hell was going on. At least they gave an apology and fixed the spawn. Hey ever wanted to play Ultima with your bud's, but did not want to pay for it? Ultima, trying to get new players is following the lead of other games, and is offering a "Bring a Buddy Package." 1) You must have an active account, 2) Your buddy must remain active for at least 90 days and 3) Your buddy must submit your e-mail addy as the person who referred you to the game. Posted July 27 2002 by Div Devlin

SW:G Pay to Play… I missed this the other day, falling into the Pay to Play category Kevin "Q3PO" O'Hara, the Community Relations Manager for Star Wars: Galaxies made an announcement on the boards regarding Beta CD's. This weekend they are testing the burning equipment and if all goes well CD's will be going out to phase one tester's. Now, the kicker is there will be a charge of $5.95 for these CD's. The charge is to cover the costs of burning, printing, shipping and for testing of the billing system. Before everyone gets into a fit over this, I have to agree that nothing is actually wrong with this. Compare it to other games. How many folks have played Ultima? You bought the game and maintain an account monthly. Same for EverQuest, Asheron's Call, World War 2 Online, and Anarchy Online. You essentially paid full retail, plus subscription to Beta Test games that were supposedly ready for the market. Those who pay are the players we want testing as they will be dedicated to the game by showing their loyalty for the game with each phase of testing, because they won't pay again if it is the suck, yes? Discuss: It's just another way of cashing in on the name. Posted July 27 2002 by Div Devlin

Sims Online Poll? In case your lucky enough not to be on this email list, Stratics is mass mailing surveys and masking it for EA to point to the Sim's Game. Stratics sends this mail titled MMORPG Survey from Stratics, within they write: Dear Stratics Reader, A company currently building a new MMORPG wants to know what you think about a few things. This is your chance to let the game developers know what you want and what you don't want in a game. Because you're a Stratics reader, they value your opinion, so please stop by and give it to them. To fill out the survey CLICK HERE: http://ea.inquisiteasp.com/surveys/UZC8ND Thanks! The Stratics Staff The link takes you to an EA site, where you have the 20 odd questions as a gamer, and end's in a redirect to The Sim's Online. No free beta reward ot anything. That sucks. I tried the test 3 times, and with varied answers, ya'd think that at least it would offer other games based on your choices and with one question inside about Earth and Beyond. Blah. Posted July 27 2002 by Div Devlin

Dragon Empires Dev Chat A Dragon Empires dev chat is planned for Monday the 29th. If you so choose, you can join in on irc.stratics.com with the channel being #de-devchat. This happens to be the same location that they have all of their chats, so be sure to remember it. Posted July 25 2002 by Rokin

One Time Reprieve x2 In a case of "WTF HAPPENED," players are logging into UO to find out that the murder count's they have accumulated are... GONE! Planned Feature silently unleashed or a screw-up by OSI, no one knows but everyone is demanding to know. In the wake of this so far, some guilds have quit enmasse. Over on Pacific shard, currently if you kill someone and log out the count is removed, while on other shards they are sticking. Siege, known to be the PvP shard where Red's had a place to play all lost their counts as well. For most, this was a symbol of pride! One GM is quoted as saying, "This was intentional." OSI/EA has yet to respond on the (need a game account to read) official-boards. Some are speculating that due to the Harrower spawn giving murder counts to players, the safest thing for OSI was to remove the murder system outright for now. If your on one of the EU servers, get on your local boards as the PK fest run is being planned now. Discuss: More fine tuning for AoS?" Posted July 25 2002 by Div Devlin

As the bubble breaks... more As more and more web-sites are starting to get into web broadcasting word has it that the first of the internet radio stations has gone for bust signing off to the tune of "Happy Trails." How is this news? Well if your a gamer, like most of us, you probably turn your game music off after hearing it for the hundreth time and start up a media player tuned to your favorite station. As a gamer, I listen to X-treme Gaming Radio the site by Paligap that is "The Internet's FIRST 24/7 Radio Station For Gamers" so I had to ask Paligap what the deal was and how all of this will affect not only us the listeners, but the broadcasters. Full Story Posted July 25 2002 by Div Devlin

ThunderboxPC Review... Unknown Player has a review posted about ThunderboxPC. I've been telling folks I know that if you want a great rig at an affordable price, to go here. Compare prices to a Dell and see what you can get for either the same amount of cash or less with a Thunderbox. In the review Diamonds writes: Here's the best part, he asked me what my budget was. I replied and told him. His next reply was "here's the computer I can make you with that much of a budget." How wonderful was that? It was so simple. All I did was say "I have $xx dollars to spend" and I got a reply saying what kind of machine I could get with that. It was like entering the amount into a machine, the Thunderbox machine. Check the review for the full skinny and then go get yourself a ThunderboxPC you will not be sorry. Posted July 25 2002 by Div Devlin

This is for you, the fan-base! "Pay to Crush," is becoming the new signature of disgruntled fanbois of Shadowbane over the news announcing those who pre-order Shadowbane from a participating retailers will get the three restricted races unlocked for play. No epic quest at game launch and no truly unique players that have participated over time and were rewarded with a restricted race. No, just go purchase it. Ebay sales are going to be huge as players hit the soft caps quick with these races while others are locked out. Vosx taking a break from his North American tour returned to the melting pot of disgruntled folks posting that if you truly love Shadowbane and want to see it succeed you will help feed the hype machine, by showing bottom dollar pre-sales so that the game is available, everywhere. Clarifications are pending with more announcements regarding this planned for Monday next week. Posted July 25 2002 by Div Devlin

Priest Interview on Gamers Click... The newest MMORPG game in development "Priest" a type of gothic horror Wild West game similar in style to the paper game "Deadlands" rpg has an interview with Jason Kim of JC Entertainment on Gamers Click. In the interview they ask some basic questions as, "You claim to be creating an entirely new genre but the game currently looks like it is nothing more than a massively multiplayer shooter/role-playing title. What are we missing?" If you have not seen this game yet, this is what the market needs. What we don't need is another Sword and Sorcery title, or another Space Opera, but a western theme MMOG. Check the interview as it's rather short and the folks doing it don't seem to familiar with MMOG's. Posted July 25 2002 by Div Devlin

Earth and Beyond release date... A official release date for Earth and Beyond as September 20. If you pre-purchase the game at GameStop or EB starting August 5 you will be added to the game's beta test according to this post-it note press release: Westwood Studios(tm) announced today that Earth & Beyond(tm) will ship to North American stores Tuesday, Sept. 17, and should be full distributed by Sept. 20. Earth & Beyond is the first online role-playing galaxy and will be published by EA (NASDAQ:ERTS) under the EA GAMES(tm) brand. Gamers who pre-purchase the game at Electronics Boutique or GameStop will receive an exclusive beta test CD for Earth & Beyond. Beta discs will be available at Electronics Boutique and GameStop stores around the country on August 5. Those who receive these discs will be automatically included in the public test without having to sign up at the official Earth & Beyond website. The Sci-Fi arena in MMOG's is going to get heated now. Discuss: To infinity and beyoooond!!! Posted July 23 2002 by Div Devlin

IGN Shadowbane Preview... IGN has a new three page preview up for Shadowbane,taking alook at city building, assets, attibutes and types for guilds. Covers basic info already known to the community at large. One new(?) screenshot shows a dragon pet. Discuss: Dragon's as pets, "All attack?" Posted July 23 2002 by Div Devlin

ALLRPG gabfest with Dragon Empires... ALLRPG has an interview up with Peter Tyson the Community Liaison Manager from Dragon Empires (The Other MMOG PVP GAME) in development in which they talk about, stuph. Ok, they talk about eye candy, the battle system, creatures, interface and the upcoming beta test. Check it. Posted July 23 2002 by Div Devlin

Imperator Faq... Mythic released an Official Faq answering questions for the new title in current development Imperator, the roman-style (romanesque) space mmo game. Within it descibes and answers such questions as, "When does Imperator take place? , Will there be elements from Dark Age of Camelot in Imperator?," and most important of all, "Will there be Player vs. Player (PvP) or Realm vs. Realm (RvR) conflict in Imperator? ," which will be a let down. You can read it below in the full story. No love for us, a copy is on BluesNews Discuss: If DAoC is EQ done right, will... Posted July 23 2002 by Div Devlin

Time for Online Games to Team Up Trey Walker (Platform Editor) over at GameSpot say's in this article that it's "Time for Online Games to Team Up." In his rant/write he think's that in three or four years from now we'll even remember half of the massively multiplayer games that are currently in development even with the projected growth estimates in the online game community. He cites a few examples of games that just don't cut it, and how in the end only a few dominant titles will emerge from the upcoming flood we will see in the market. Give it a read. Thanks MassiveMultiplayer. Posted July 23 2002 by Div Devlin

Happy Anniversary Zalaster! Wanted to give a quick shout out to a good bud of mine Zalaster over at Shadowbane Vault and his wife Mrs. Zal (who is really cool). They just celebrated their wedding anniversary. Congrats! I asked Zal what attributed to the happiness and joy they have shared these years as a married couple. Discuss: He explained. Posted July 22 2002 by Div Devlin

SB: Let's break the NDA! This update for the specific attention of Tul'Methar the French-Canadian Irekei hanging out over in Quebec who has been looking for a Shadowbane update on here. Yet another person on yet the same site again seems to have broken the NDA as over on Player2Player's boards is a decent write-up of Shadowbane's Beta. From like someone in beta. In this post (archived below) Ukulele Queen gives us a first impression by a player within the beta not Stalinized...(Dang spell check) sanitized by UbiSoft telling us a little about the games graphics, combat, leveling, interface and the general feel of the community within beta. It gives no detailed information and just basically a brief impression by a player for other players. If it has not been removed yet, give it a read. If it has been removed, check below for the full story. Discuss: N.D.A. stands for... Full Story Posted July 22 2002 by Div Devlin

UO Players Upset, Tajima speaks. Hot on the heels of Ultima's announcement of the Age of Shadows expansion where veteran players were upset over this new addition when current content still is not working. Tajima spoke out about these interesting times in which he tells us, "UO does have a bright future, and we really do listen to our players!" Also announced (it's now a year late no?) that new Veteran Rewards are coming, with a look at what to expect. With a bonus! O.K. It makes Arcadian del Sol bitter as well. Discuss: Everyone is starting to get back into Ultima. Posted July 22 2002 by Div Devlin

Gamespot U.K. ends 7-31-02 Confirmation of the rumor that Cnet will be shutting down the U.K. site to GameSpot appeared on gameindustry.biz ending the exaggerated rumors with an interview from GameSpot.co.uk marketing director Susan Rundle. "The plan is for the US site to incorporate UK-focused reviews and release schedules, Right now you can probably get the same level of content that you get on GameSpot.co.uk for free on GameSpot.com... All UK specific content on the .com site with the exception of downloads will be free for a one week period, after which it moves into an archive which users must subscribe to GameSpot Complete to read." Someone please que Cnet that gamers do not want to pay for news. In other news, the evil Mega-Corp Microsoft is rumored to buy Yahoo! Discuss: More fallout from the dot.com bust? Posted July 22 2002 by Div Devlin

Destiny-Online ends Beta... Destiny Online a space mmog by Mathias Mueller announced that they have ended beta testing with the game and are expected to go live at the beginning of August. They also add the promise, "that it was worth the wait." Destiny-Online features uses the use of OpenGL to render its game world, every player can own spaceships that are customizeable and can be upgraded, groups of players can create clans in order to share resources, players and clans can build their own spaceships and that there is a very intriguing story behind Destiny-Online. Posted July 22 2002 by Div Devlin

DAoC has a patch notes... Because some people somewhere are still playing DaoC, even though I keep hearing more and more are canceling their accounts. DaoC has the latest patch notes from testing up for: Version A Version B and Version C These will be part of the massive patch that will bring the game to version 1.52. In it specific issues are addressed with fixes and CHANGES! for RvR, Monsters, Factions, bugs, items, and new items. There is a lot to read and catch up on if you are not up to date. Posted July 22 2002 by Div Devlin

City of Hero's: The Vanguard City of Hero's has an update for organizations on the creation of the Vanguard. Learn how the Rikti invasion fostered the creation of the Vanguard - a crime-fighting organization above and beyond individual nations, dedicated to fighting any alien or super-powered force intent on bearing humanity ill will! Although the Rikti Invasion began (and apparently ended) in Paragon City, it was a worldwide crisis. The menacing extra-dimensional armies struck across the globe. At first, heroes, soldiers, and citizens in each nation fought the aliens individually as best they could. NATO had no contingency plan for dimensional portals opening up in the hearts of its capital cities. Those first few weeks were utter chaos as the world fought to hold on against the technologically superior Rikti. Only through the efforts of super powered individuals and hero organizations like the Freedom Phalanx, did humanity manage to bring to a halt the invaders' early advances. Learn more about the Vanguard Story. Posted July 19 2002 by Div Devlin

Lineage Episode 11: Oren Adrenaline Vault is telling us that NCSoft has released a new episode within Lineage on the N. American servers. Episode 11: Oren adds an entirely new land for players to explore in a snowy region that adds several new monsters - including the Ice Queen who can kill entire bands of players with her icy-cold breath. The land of Oren is highlighted by the massive Ivory Tower - an eight-story building created from magic that includes hunting grounds, quest areas, teleportation sites and also acts as a central stage for newly created magical activities. Magic is a central theme to the Oren update. New spells have been added to the Lineage magic system and a specialized magic system for Elves has been introduced. The Death Match arena previously announced though has been pushed back from this publish due to late-breaking issues. Thanks Adrenaline Vault. Posted July 19 2002 by Div Devlin

Games First Interviews Richard Garriot Games First has an interview with Richard "Lord British" Garriot (nee Ultima Online) from Destination Games the North American Publisher for Lineage, City of Hero's and his Tabula Rosa project, that took place back during this years E3. In the two part interview they discuss what he is working on now, how MMOG's have had a bad rap, interactivity amongst players, a bit of a teaser on Lineage Forever, the push into online gaming consoles and the plans for his next great adventure in life. It's a long read if you have nothing to do at work. Posted July 19 2002 by Div Devlin

New Screenies: Pixel Crack for everyone! Earth & Beyond at Gamer's Hell Earth & Beyond at Gaming Horizon Neocron at Worthplaying The Sims Online at IGN UO:The Age of Shadows at ToTheGame UO:The Age of Shadows at Gaming Horizon Warhammer Online at GameSpyDaily Eye Candy is good. Posted July 19 2002 by Div Devlin

MCO: New Skins, New Program Motor City Online continues it's car skinning, announcing what bodies EA Seattle would like to see skinned next and how to do it. -1949 Mercury Coupe -1957 Ford Ranchero -1969 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 -1970 Ford Mustang And, if you refer a friend to join the game, you can be the proud owner of a GOAT. A Brand spanking new 1966 Pontiac GTO convertible! Take part in the new "Refer a Friend" program, and take to the streets (in game of course). Posted July 19 2002 by Div Devlin

Warhammer Online Interview... ToTheGame has a Warhammer Online interview up talking with Rick Priestley and folks about the origins of Warhammer Online, how it came to be, if it was originally planned as a MMOG, and plans inside the game for players. Spells, NPC's, races and classes. It's a fairly long read but covers a lot of basics people have a tendency to ask. Check the interview out. Posted July 18 2002 by Div Devlin

WoW: Beta Signup The World of Warcraft site has updated their FAQ announcing that Beta is set to begin sometime in 2003, for those of you who could not find the update way down at that bottom it reads When will the beta start? We expect beta testing to begin in 2003. But when in 2003 is when everyone want's to know. Posted July 18 2002 by Div Devlin

GameSpot U.K. shutting down... Rumor over on Pud's site is that Cnet will be shutting down the U.K. site to GameSpot come the end of the month. From the rumor released, they are trying to divert their advertisers to other Cnet Sites before shutting down. Discuss: More fallout from the dot.com bust? Posted July 18 2002 by Div Devlin

EQ goes RTS and MAC OS Sony released a press release which can be found over on IGN stating that EverQuest will become a 'real time strategy' game port as well as a console based version of EQ as they further expand into the alternate gaming markets. Snippets from the release state: Rapid Eye Entertainment is currently developing a real-time strategy, PC-based EverQuest game while Snowblind Studios is developing an EverQuest-based product for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Further product information will be announced at a later date. Also released yesterday was another press release stating that EverQuest will soon be making a move to support the Mac OS sometime in 2003. "Supporting the Mac platform is a logical step towards growing our online community and building the most complete, interactive experience for gamers," said Scott McDaniel, Vice President of Marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. "Combine the power and stability of Mac OS X with Apple's outstanding desktop systems and you've got an incredible gaming environment that'll take full advantage of EverQuest's huge and seamless 3D world." Mac users are finally getting some love, largely neglected for the past several years in the MMOG market. Discuss: Mac users get love? Posted July 18 2002 by Div Devlin

UnknownPlayer Developer Chat: UnknownPlayer is hosting another of their weekly developer chats tonight (Thursday 7-18-02) at 6pm Eastern with Mark Jacobs (Founder/CEO of Mythic), Haden Blackman (Producer with LucasArts ), Rich Vogel (Executive Producer at SOE), Larry Dunlap (Founder/Creative Director with Intelligent Life Games) and Tim Schubert (Lead Client Programmer with Origin ). The subject of the chat will be discussing Platforms vs. PC's and the future of MMOGs. The chat will be on Irc.Sorcery.Net in room #up.com. They also have a java client on their website if you do not have mIRC or an alternate IRC. Posted July 18 2002 by Div Devlin

Name the Monster Contest! Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings (the new name confirmed by GameSpot) is holding a little shindig of a contest for players to help, ya know...Create Content for the upcoming game with a "Name the Monster Contest." As long departed writers on sites once would say, "Content is Hard." All you need to do is help participate in the making of Asheron's Call 2 for the chance to win an AC2 Beta account! They even have rules and stuff which ya can find on the site here. Have at it! While you are there, may as well check out the interview with Jason Booth from Turbine that was held on the 15th by Stratics. Discuss: Yeah, we need an AC2 icon. Posted July 17 2002 by Div Devlin

The Age of Shadows... Don't I feel like an ass? Just the other day I was commenting upon how Ultima Online was becoming a dead product. We as players know it. UO probably knows it as well. Figure I still have Blackthorn's Revenge sitting in an unopened box next to my PC, publish 16 has been a dismal failure, and no new products have been announced when 'lo and behold,' word comes of an expansion. The Age of Shadows expansion (due out in 2003) will finally give us Necromancy (little late) and Paladin professions (Is this a fixed Hero/Evil system) as well as a new land mass and the option for those who own homes a 'Home building tool.' The home building tool will allow players to revamp their current home, or build new buildings from scratch in a design layout of your choice. Is this the seekrit project that OSI and our hero's of days long gone, have been working on? Discuss: New players have no place to place a home to place! Posted July 17 2002 by Div Devlin

Help Wanted at Mythic, pictures too! Mythic Entertainment, makers of Dark Age of Camelot "still" have a job opening (Thanks Blue) posted on the Camelot Herald for an artist specializing in world object construction and texturing (e.g. buildings, dungeons, and environment fixtures). Posted way back on 7-09-02 Sanya even says that: This is a full time salaried position, working at Mythic headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. We regret that we are unable to consider interns, part-timers, contract workers, or telecommuters at this time. One wonders if bagels will be involved during any interviews? Check out the job posting on the Herald. They also have some pictures from the Camelot Round Table that was held at the beginning of the month. Discuss: Just because Lum and Tweety work there! Posted July 17 2002 by Div Devlin

A date with Shadowbane... Aside from the rumors running around as of late that UbiSoft testers are violating the NDA posting screenshots, reviews, and sharing of Shadowbane Beta accounts (negatively), a real release date seems to be October 29,2002 (Thanks WarCry!) as pre-orders are again on EBGames with a price of 39.99 with some folks just not having much positive things to say. -if you work 9 to 5 this will not be a game for you.if you have a family this is not the game for you.if you hate pvp this is not game for you.if you looking for the next good looking graphics this is not the game for you.if you are an occasional gamer and can't spent more then 4 hours a day online.there is room for the casual if you like living in grief though. -I know they promise us some polishing, but this game is suppose to be released in less than half a year, and those graphics lack horribly. -this is nothing but a gank fest. Plain and simple. I know exactly how this game is going to turn out. -if they do offer so much control as they say to plaers hardocre players will run this game and leave casual players to do as hardcore players make not what they want. So much negativity from folks who have yet to even try the game. A few educated and well written postive comments were posted as well in the defense of the game to come. Meanwhile, Arcadian DelSol has not one, but six comments on how the box art sucks and they used quotes from.."Daily Radar, an online game fluffing website that fell off of planet Earth.com almost two years ago." Discuss: It's Shadowbane! Posted July 17 2002 by Div Devlin

Were like... Back and Stuph. Or "How some people should just STFU! Myself included." It took six months, two different engines but the site has been gutted and totally rebuilt from the ground up. If you’re new here, well hope ya make this your home as were a sited dedicated to the massive multiplayer gamers and the news for those games with our thoughts, that at times ya may or may not agree with. A Community site dedicated to all the players and the games we play (inserting lame quote) for the players by the players. I also owe Mamma Myschyf an apology so go read the full story where I rattle on about why this site is here, who I am, and give thanks to everyone who helped get this site back up and running. Full Story Posted July 17 2002 by Div Devlin

We are remodeling... We are in the process of cleaning and replacing the back engine we are using, and should be back up and running within the week. Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to check us out once we are cleaned. Good gaming! Div Posted July 16 2002 by Div Devlin