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EA Announces New Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss Expansion
For the many fans who are addicted to online games, Ultima Online is back better and promising. Mythic Entertainment today officially announced Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss the upcoming expansion to legendary MMORPG Ultima Online. Slated for release this summer, Stygian Abyss will be the eighth expansion to one of the longest-running MMORPGs in the genre’s history. The expansion will introduce a flood of new content for the citizens of Britannia to explore and conquer.
Stygian Abyss revolves around the introduction of the playable Gargoyle race. Since taking center stage in the original Ultima series, Gargoyles have been a fascinating part of the Ultima story – now, Ultima Online players can enjoy Gargoyles firsthand, with a variety of unique skills, including Throwing, Imbuing and Mysticism.
Players will find expansive new areas to explore, including Ter Mur, the Gargoyle homeland, and the Stygian Abyss dungeon itself – the largest dungeon area ever introduced to Ultima Online. The dungeon will contain new boss monsters of unparalleled difficulty including the Medusa, Primeval Lich and the Stygian Dragon, as well as Player vs. Player zones where adventurers will be turned against each other.
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Warhammer Online Gets Two New Careers, Tons of Tweaks
Mythic Entertainment has begun its three-month long “live expansion” for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning with the v1.2 patch, which adds new scenarios, new treasures, tweaks, but most importantly offers two new careers.
The two melee-focused careers can be chosen after completing the new “Bitter Rivals” event, which includes the new RvR “Twisted Tower” scenario. They are Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer.
Other additions include two new secret lairs, an improved crafting system and easy public quests. You can check out the exhaustive list of tweaks and changes on the official site.
Warhammer Online Head Start Dates
Having launched the open beta for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning recently, developer Mythic Entertainment revealed when pre-order customers will be able to join the fray.
The promised early access to the live game servers will come to those who pre-ordered the Collector’s Edition on Sunday, September 14. Those who bought the regular edition will be able to join the fun two days later on September 16.
Fortunately for these gamers, progress made during the head start will be retained when the game finally launches on September 18.
Mythic: Warhammer Needs to Succeed for Industry’s Sake
It’s a do or die situation for Mythic Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming Warhammer Online MMO, as studio VP Mark Jacobs commented that their game needs to succeed or else “it’s not going to be good for the industry.”
The current MMORPG scene is dominated by Blizzard with World of Warcraft that has a staggering amount of subscribers.
“We need to show the world that it’s not just Blizzard who can make a great game, and that the audience is absolutely willing to try new things and to play a game other than WoW,” said Jacobs. “If we don’t succeed with EA behind us, the Warhammer IP behind us, with one of the most experienced teams in the industry, that’s not going to be good for the industry.”
He also revealed that he hoped Conan would be more popular than it currently is.
“At some level I wanted Conan to succeed because for the last few years people have been saying it’s all Blizzard and nobody else can do it,” Jacobs stated. “‘Only Blizzard can get those kind of numbers,’ and so far they’ve been right. But now it’s our turn.”
Warhammer Online goes live September 18.
Closed Beta Testers Now Allowed to Talk About Warhammer Online
Those who were allowed into the closed beta of Mythic Entertainments Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning first first made to agree to a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, making it illegal to spill the beans about the MMO
Well this is no longer true as the developers have announced that they are ditching the NDA, now allowing beta testers to talk freely about the game, get ready for a whole slew up YouTube gameplay videos.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an MMORPG currently under development by Mythic Entertainment and will be released for the PC on September 18th of this year.