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Karos Online enters open beta Dec 4th

19 Nov

Karos Online publisher NHN Corporation has announced that open beta for the fantasy MMO will kick off on Friday, December 4th. The official site’s link for CBT sign-ups is still active, so this may be worth a shot. Those gamers already in the Karos Online closed beta will have some things to look forward to in the final CBT event running from November 27th – 28th. Characters will be given gear and items for high-level play with rapid experience gain. NHN says players will reach a level cap of 44 “almost immediately”. There will also be new monsters, weapons, and Holy Creatures to tear into.

In addition, players in the CBT will be able to reserve their character names for when Karos Online’s open beta doors swing wide to the masses. The English version of Karos Online is scheduled to launch in Q4 2009, with German and Turkish versions to follow in 2010.

Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Events, in-game, MMO industry, New titles, Free-to-play

Karos Online enters open beta Dec 4th originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 19th, 2009 at 7:00pm by James Egan
Filed Under: betas, cbt, closed-beta, f2p, fantasy, free-to-play, karos-online, mmo-industry, new-titles, nhn, nhn-corporation, open-beta

Linden Lab launches Second Life Enterprise beta, Second Life Work Marketplace to come

4 Nov

Filed under: Betas, Business models, Launches, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds

Linden Lab, the company behind the Second Life platform is launching the open beta of Project Nebraska today. Project Nebraska was the working title for what is now called Second Life Enterprise, a standalone Second Life solution for enterprise use.

This “Second Life in a box” solution, is actually in two boxes. It consists of a combined software and hardware bundle, including two 1RU rack-mount servers, prepackaged as an appliance and configured to provide virtual environment and voice services, ready to use with standard Second Life viewer software.

But that’s not all.

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Linden Lab launches Second Life Enterprise beta, Second Life Work Marketplace to come originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 4th, 2009 at 9:00am by Tateru Nino
Filed Under: betas, breaking, business-models, case-western-reserve-university, defenseweb-technologies, douglas-maxwell, francoise-legoues, ibm, launches, linden-lab, naval-undersea-warfare-center, new-media-consortium, northrop-grumman, project-nebraska, second-life, second-life-enterprise, second-life-nebraska, second-life-work-marketplace, virtual-worlds

Alganon decides to wait a month

28 Oct

Are you excited about Alganon? Excited enough, perhaps, that you might have chosen to take a couple days off from work in anticipation of its scheduled launch on October 31st? If so, we’ve got some kind of bad news for you. It’s not coming out then after all. As a matter of fact, it isn’t going to release until December 1st, according to community manager Tork at the official site.

What’s the reason for the delay? The official post is shy of concrete reasons, but it mentions that the decision was reached in order to test on a larger scale as well as refine the game further. It also mentions that they’re looking forward to running more contests and improving their visibility — both excellent aims. Community response has been surprisingly positive and moderate, which might be a good sign in advance. If you are one of the people who pre-ordered, however, the announcement isn’t just bad news — everyone who pre-ordered the game by October 31st will get a free month in compensation. Actually playing Alganon will have to wait for a little while, but an extra month certainly helps take the edge off.

Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Launches, New titles, News items, Alganon

Alganon decides to wait a month originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on October 28th, 2009 at 11:30am by Eliot Lefebvre
Filed Under: alganon, betas, launch-delay, launches, new-titles, news-items, preorders

Players to get hands-on time with Star Trek Online at Eurogamer Expo

26 Oct

Some people have already gotten into the closed beta for Star Trek Online, but for the rest of us it’s going to be a waiting game. There may be good news for some of our UK-based readers, though. Those in attendance at this week’s Eurogamer Expo will get to experience both ship-based action and ground combat firsthand in a Star Trek Online demo Cryptic Studios has set up. According to Eurogamer, Cryptic will allow Expo attendees to fight a fleet of Klingons and follow that up with an away mission on a planet’s surface, where they will encounter the “Guardian of Forever.”

Eurogamer Expo will run October 27-28 in Leeds, and October 30-31 in London. You can check out the full details of this public hands-on of Star Trek Online in the Eurogamer announcement.

Gallery: Star Trek Online Gallery