Bonne nouvelle pour les amateurs de MMORPG ! Malgré les nombreux retards et la perte de 70% de ses effectifs ...

p—bNintendo releases e-Book collection for DS/b : Move over Kindle, there's a new e-Reader in town—the Nintendo DS. Well ... not quite, but the game giant did announce the availability of "i100 Classic Book Collection/i" today. The game features classic tomes from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Shakespeare, among others. DS owners flip the portable console on its side to read, use the stylus to flip through pages, and can even search through and bookmark segments. Currently, the title is only slated for a European release, with 10 additional titles available via download via the DS Lite Wi-fi feature. Still, U.K.-based a href="http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/12/01/nintendo%E2%80%99s-ds-e-reader-priced-and-dated/" title="tech site Electric Pig"tech site Electric Pig/a begs the obvious question: does anybody really want to read an entire book on the DS' tiny screen?nbsp; /p p —bAcclaim unleashes iRockfree/i, free music game/b : MMORPG publisher Acclaim is developing iRockfree/i, an online game that will let players create avatars, open up their own rock "club" and battle against other players online. Slated to go live in Q109, a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21292" title="Gamasutra says"Gamasutra says/a Rockfree will feature tracks from Warner Music, Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) and EMI artists, in addition to more than 40 songs created just for the game. The title also has free written all over it: gamers don't have to pay to play it, nor will they have to pay for extra downloadable tracks. /p p —bAOL preaches game safety on new site/b : AOL (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=TWX" class="ticker" title="TWX"NYSE: TWX/a) has launched a href="http://www.playsavvy.com/" title="PlaySavvy.com"PlaySavvy.com/a, a new site aimed at helping parents understand gaming consoles, interpret the game rating system and better determine which titles are appropriate for their kids. The site features reviews and how-to guides, and of course, "relevant advertising." Wonder if there will be any conflict of interest issues (like the ones a href="http://www.gamespot.com/" title="GameSpot "GameSpot /afaced last year, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/05/gamespot-addresses-gerstmann-gate-concerns-in-depth/" title="per Joystiq"per Joystiq/a) or concern about ads being run for games that aren't exactly family-friendly ... a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20081201005158newsLang=en" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bDouble Fusion beefs up in-game ad lineup for PS3/b : Game advertising company Double Fusion has inked exclusive deals with THQ (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=THQI" class="ticker" title="THQI"NSDQ: THQI/a), Sega, Eidos and Midway to handle the in-game ads for their PS3 titles. This is in addition to the deal they first brokered in July with Sony to put ads in PS3 games, though Sony announced a similar partnership with Double Fusion rival IGA Worldwide in June, and launched its own in-game ad division in October 2007. a href="http://doublefusion.com/press/html/PS3_12_01_08.html" title="Release"Release/a.nbsp; /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=LURJGK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=LURJGK" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=7YRrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=7YRrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EzwFO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EzwFO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Pke8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Pke8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NCcjO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NCcjO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YLkHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YLkHO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472017563" height="1" width="1"/

Dungeon Keeper est de retour, mais uniquement en Chine. Electronic Arts a en effet confié les clés de sa licence à NetDragon Websoft Inc., un développeur et exploitant chinois de jeux en ligne. Celui-ci se chargera de l'élaboration, de la distribution et de la gestion d'un MMORPG en 3D sur PC baptis...

plus MMOG que MMORPG probablement

Les MMO de stratégie sont manifestement à la mode. NetDragon et Electronic Arts viennent d'annoncer le développement d'un MMORPG inspiré du célèbre Dungeon Keeper.

pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21304/2008_12_01_dk.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/China-based game developer NetDragon Websoft has announced that it has reached an agreement with Electronic Arts to license the company's Dungeon Keeper IP for a 3D MMORPG. The agreement includes all themes, characters and game content seen in the classic PC strategy game released in 1997. As part of this agreement, NetDragon will develop the title, and also gains the exclusive license to operate and distribute Dungeon Keeper Online throughout the Greater China region, including .../p pmap name="google_ad_map_Xgq8Tn1U4H4CQfWOAXOaw5deV1g_"area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/Xgq8Tn1U4H4CQfWOAXOaw5deV1g_?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//mapimg usemap="#google_ad_map_Xgq8Tn1U4H4CQfWOAXOaw5deV1g_" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgclient=ca-pub-3896033488060561channel=feedburner-rssoutput=pngcuid=Xgq8Tn1U4H4CQfWOAXOaw5deV1g_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamasutra.com%2Fphp-bin%2Fnews_index.php%3Fstory%3D21304"//pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=IoYwO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=IoYwO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=9d4WO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=9d4WO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=92TGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=92TGO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/471527845" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21292/rockfree.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/MMORPG publisher Acclaim Games announced Rockfree, a free-to-play, browser-based music game scheduled to release in the first quarter of 2009. The company partnered with Warner Music, Sony, and EMI to include songs from those record labels, and also teamed up with WaveGroup, the production company behind the song covers in the Guitar Hero series and other music titles. Rockfree allows players to create custom avatars, open a rock club, upload new tracks, and battle against .../pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=QwkQO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=QwkQO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=PfNyO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=PfNyO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=ob8DO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=ob8DO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/471399865" height="1" width="1"/

Une nouvelle série d'images du très attendu Star Wars : The Old Republic est apparue en toute fin de week-end sur le site officiel de ce futur MMORPG signé par BioWare. L'occasion pour les innombrables fanatiques de la licence et/ou des développeurs de découvrir les planètes Korriban et Tython - lie...

Près de neuf ans après son entrée en hibernation, la classique série fait un comeback inattendu, en ligne et, pour l'instant, exclusif au territoire chinois, nouvelle tentative des éditeurs occidentaux de coloniser un marché en pleine explosion.

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Que serait un MMORPG sans monstres à tuer ?