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Halloween Massive Gaming News
City of Heroes is running a Trick or Treat and Zombie invasion event this weekend. Folks in Europe looking to get their cape on can look forward to participating sometime next year.
Anarchy Online is celebrating the season with a holiday ball and costume contest, as well as nanotech transformations and monster sightings.
Final Fantasy Online players and developers have a lot to be happy about this weekend. Today is the one-year anniversary of the North American launch, and they're throwing a party to celebrate. In-game, the annual trick or treating, costuming, and spookery is going on. This year they're also throwing around some glamours to let players take the part of monsters for a while. Square-Enix revised upwards it's earning estimates this week, giving even executives reason to smile.
In non-holiday news, Richard Garriot was interviewed by HomeLAN about the upcoming Tabula Rasa game, and MMORPG.com has some new info on Dungeons and Dragons Online from the lead designer.
Finally, the Second Annual State of Play conference is this weekend, drawing Virtual World academics from all over to celebrate Halloween by lecturing. Nerd on, guys.
Update: 10/28 18:50 GMT by Z : There's a press release going around stating that City of Villians playtesters will be drawn from the ranks of veteran CoH players.
Oh no! They said a politically incorrect word! I am so offended! I think I am going to call Oprah up and tell her about the opression of the African American peoples!
Fucking. Nerds.
when I was a kid we had no Halloween, no Valentines and no Santa Claus in Holland. We had St. Maarten (with hollowed oud turnips) and Sinterklaas (on december 5th). You killed all our customs, all our individuality. I hope you will get killed by Al-Qaida and other terrorists as you deserve!