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Vader Visits The Troops And Other Tales
Bungie will be making a lot of changes at the home office, doubling their staff to ramp up for Halo 3. Changes for fans of the City of Heroes comic are coming as well, as NCSoft announced early this week that they were signing Top Cow publishing to take over the book. There will be plenty of announcements next week at the Game Developer's Conference, where Nintendo will be discussing their plans for Network gaming. MMOGs are, of course, the most networked of games and there is lots of MMO-related news to share this week. Final Fantasy XI players have a new Vana'diel Tribune to peruse, and if you'd like to share some stories the folks over at videogamestudies.com are interested in your characters. Not a new story, but one worth sharing is the republishing of The Big Scam. The Eve Online tale of real-life scammery and backstabbery is well worth a read. Sharing online tales is fun, and 1up.com has excellent journals about their online adventures. Warcraft Stories, My Life in Vana'diel, Memoirs of an Urban Vigilante, and Hooked on Evercrack were all updated this week. Finally, Corpnews has a bright note from the world of Star Wars Galaxies to share as Lord Vader took some time to visit the troops in the field. Update: 03/07 17:18 GMT by Z : As CapeMonkey pointed out, I had the wrong barnyard animal in talking about the CoH Comic.
Launched this week was the free art project LessShift which allows anyone to run a Planeshift server that users can legally connect to (the Planeshift art license prohibits players from connecting to "non-official" servers with official art). We're currently in need of artists with 3ds max skills and/or Blender experts who can revive the Blender -> CS export tools. 2d artists, musicians and Quake/Halflife mappers are also needed.
All contributed art must be in the public domain or under a public domain compatible license (eg, x11, creative commons, GPL). Everyone is welcome to use the art bundle for any purpose (including developing other MMORPGs).
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Creative Demolition
I heard around SWG forums (trying to find an opinion on if its worth playing now) that both Rebel VIPs and Imperial VIPs were going to cities "rallying the troops." I read Leia stopped by a city somewheres and also gave a "speech".
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Princess Leia actually does show up; she visits Anchorhead. I believe Darth Vader visits Coronet...
Dear diary: Today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender.