Age of Conan Update Live

Age of Conan: Hyberian Adventures got its first major content update since the release in May this year. Along with the new content update comes many new areas, characters and quests for players to divulge their role playing fantasies. Many items introduced will be aimed at higher level characters above level 50 mostly.

This is a free update that will be available to all Age Of Conan players.

Titan Studios Forms in Seattle

Epic Games China have opened up a new game development studio in Seattle called Titan Studios. Titan is made up of senior developers with previous experience at such well known dev. studios as Ubisoft, Epic Games, Scion Studios, Blizzard Entertainment, and Lionhead Studios. Quite the repertoir indeed it would seem, but we will have to wait and see what they come up with. They will be making games mostly using Epic's Unreal Engine 3.

According to official statements, a new mmo is in the works. No details on what it might be yet but updates will be available when they are released. Lets just hope for something kickass. Something with electric blanket mobiles and hamburger earmuffs! ok ok, maybe not but hey stranger things have happened....

Lich King System Requiremtents Released

Here are the minimum and recommended system specifications released by Blizzard.

PC System Requirements

OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)

Processor:
• Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
• Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2

Memory:
• Minimum: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users)
• Recommended: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)

Video:
• Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
• Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better

Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability

Mac System Requirements

OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer

Processor:
• Minimum: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor
• Recommended: Intel 1.8GHz processor or better

Memory:
• Minimum: 1 GB RAM
• Recommended: 2 GB RAM

Video:
• Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 64 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 class card or better
• Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA 7600 class card or better

Pirates Of The Burning Sea Free 14 Day Trial

Pirates of the Burning Sea will now be available in a free 14 day trial. No credit card is needed to play. Hopefully more players will discover the vast sea of pirate goods to be found and could make this MMO much more popular. The more players online, the more community aspects to be had. Which in most cases results in a more loyal audience. Anyone who has played an MMO for more than a few minutes can tell you that when you feel welcome in the game, when you have friends in the game, you are much less likely to leave the community.

Check it out at Pirates of the Burning Sea Free 14 Day Trial

Knights of the Old Republic MMO in the works?

Though still only speculation and rumours, there seems to be clues leading to the fact that Lucasarts and BioWare have been working on a new KOTOR game based in a Massively Multiplayer Online environment. The first two installments of the KOTOR franchise were critically acclaimed and beloved by many.

An official announcement is set to be made October 21st.