Showing posts with label Game News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Game News. Show all posts

Thursday 7 June 2012

Games Of Thrones Ascent Game Arriving On Facebook


Today Disruptor Beam the Boston-based game company has announced that the first Facebook Games Of Thrones Ascent game, based on the HBO TV series Game of Thrones and award-winning novels by George R.R. Martin. Will be arriving on Facebook in the future, with an unspecified release date.

The new Facebook Games Of Thrones Ascent game will allow players to play nobles during the unrest protracted in the books and series. CEO of Disruptor Beam, Jon Radoff, in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat.
“Everyone at Disruptor Beam was a huge fan of Game of Thrones long before we began working on the game, so we recognize that other fans expect character-driven conflict and intrigue to take center stage in our new game,”
“In Game of Thrones Ascent players will lead the life of a noble during the time of upheaval as portrayed in the books and the series thus experiencing a new type of game that unites both story and strategy. Players will claim their birthright by choosing which of the great houses they’ll swear allegiance to, securing their holdings, developing their lands and personal reputation, and assigning sworn swords to quests–while forging alliances with new friends and much more!”
Source: Venture Beat
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Thursday 31 May 2012

'Diablo 3' allows intercontinental multiplayer, Blizzard takes cut of Auction House earnings


Diablo 3 players will be able to team up with their fellow adventurers from across the globe — but with a few restrictions, Blizzard announced today.
Characters and items in Diablo 3 will be bound to one of three server regions: The Americas, which includes the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia; Europe, which encompasses European nations as well as Africa and the Middle East; and Asia, which includes South Korea, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.
Though you can't move characters between these three regions, players will have access to "Global Play," which lets them create new characters in territories other than their "home" region. They'll be allowed to play with other players on those servers with only one restriction: They can't bid in the real-money Auction House in any other region but their own.
Speaking of, Blizzard also announced that the real-money Auction House won't launch until "approximately one week" after Diablo 3's May 15 launch. Blizzard posted a comprehensive FAQ on the controversial auction system on the game's official site, clearing up a few points of interest for its prospective users.
For instance, folks hoping to turn the game into a business opportunity will be discouraged to learn that Blizzard will take $1 off the top of every piece of equipment sold (and 15 percent off of everything else), and charges a 15 percent transfer fee to move money through a third party like PayPal. To avoid that surcharge (as well as PayPal's own transfer fee), players can choose to move funds to their Battle.net account, where they can use their money to pay for games, subscriptions or more in-game items. Of course, once they do that, that money cannot be refunded back into real-life cash.
Check out Diablo 3's official site for more information on how the Auction House will operate.



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