SOE Sunsetting Bullet Run

Wow… that was short lived:

From an SOE email:

Dear Bullet Run Contestant,
After much review and consideration, Acony Games and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) have mutually made the decision to discontinue development on the free-to-play FPS game, Bullet Run. As a result, SOE and Acony will sunset the game and end all game services for Bullet Run on March 8, 2013. We would like to thank the players for their dedication and support of the game.
https://www.bulletrunthegame.com

The Orcs Are Coming!!

Excellent news, Orcs fans….

Stan Nicholl’s has a graphic novel coming out this month http://amzn.to/qDGmh5

AND the third book in the Orcs trilogy should be out at the end of December http://amzn.to/qKabZS

More details at http://www.stannicholls.com/

Everquest II Extended (EQ2X) – First impressions

Download and installation was relatively hassle free. If a little slow (though that may be my connection issues more than anything).

Once in, it’s very much your good old EQ2 but with far fewer choices as to race, profession etc. You can only start as a neutral character, in the competely free to play version, and are restricted to a subset of profs.

Gameplay is, understandably, exactly the same as EQII. Missions in the new Halas area have a nice ‘icy snowbound, we all hate orcs’ feel and my barbarian had a high old time levelling from 0-8 in a fairly short period of time.

Characterisation for the NPCs is well done, the froglok kid you run into early on is a nice touch.

In short, if you have an old EQII itch but don’t want to re-up or the kids are wanting to play but you are too mean to buy them an account, this is a great way in. If you can pay, I’d pay and just get into the vanilla EQII game, with all the options, all the quests and an established community.

That having been said, I’ll be going back to EQIIX from time to time, it’s… fun.

Back in the world of MMORPGing again…

..but, at the moment, not back in Warhammer.

Currently reinstalling Everquest II and will be blogging about that for now.

Still waiting on SW:TOR with bated breath.

1.3 Hits Live…

“With this version we kick off the last Live event in the Call to Arms Live expansion: Rise of the Tomb Kings, which, as its ultimate prize, grants first and 24 hour exclusive access to the Land of the Dead to the realm that wins it! Please note that this means that there will be no immediate access to the Land of the Dead, this access will need to be earned through competing in the Rise of the Tomb Kings event!”  – WAR Europe

Lands Of The Dead Trailer Launched

From War-Europe.com: Lands of the Dead Trailer

Looks… sandy

Just a reminder…

“Struggle for Nordenwatch” runs until 09:00 CEST on Tuesday, May 5th.

That’s 08:00 BST if my fingers are counting right?