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• • EverQuest: LoN May Championship Qualifier

  • SOE has announced that qualifying rounds for for the Legends of Norrath Championships will be held this weekend on 17th and 18th.

    Gen Con Indy is getting closer so now's the time to win a place in the Legends of Norrath Championships this August! Participants can compete in this two-day event for $5,000 USD in prizes, a paid trip to Gen Con to compete against the best Legends of Norrath players, and for the winner's likeness to be portrayed on an upcoming Legends of Norrath card! Visit the Legends of Norrath at Gen Con page for details!

    Day One of the May Legends of Norrath Championship Qualifier consists of one or more heats (scheduled to start at 10:00am PDT) that will be Match Play (2 of 3) Swiss tournaments. The top 16 participating players from Day One will advance to Day Two for a shot at the monthly title. Day Two will be a single tournament that features the top 16 participating players from Day One in a Match Play (2 of 3) Swiss tournament. At the end of four rounds of play, the top two participating players will face off in a single, winner-take-all Match Play (2 of 3) game to determine the qualifier champion!

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  • Posted: 5/14/08 8:54 PM
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• • Dark Age of Camelot: Ghost Keep Guide

  • The folks at Dark Age of Camelot have prepared a guide to help players see the new content of the Ghost Keep.

    Since the debut of the new Event on Monday, we’ve seen a flurry of activity as the realms battle over control of the Ghost Keep. Each cluster has seen the ghost keep actively summoned six times or more since the premiere. To help out those who haven’t gotten to check out the new content, we’ve decided to go ahead and put out a quick primer on how the event works and how you can aid your realm in securing the Ghost Keep!

    The premise is simple. The realms race to complete ‘Supply’ quests that will allow the ‘Ancient’ NPCs enough power to begin a summoning process that will bring forth the spectral essence of a former Keep Lord for each realm (Lord Berkstead the First for Albion, Jarl Nottmoor for Midgard, and Chieftess Crimthainn for Hibernia.) Unless noted otherwise, the quests described below are available for levels 45-50.

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  • Posted: 5/14/08 8:45 PM
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• • EVE Online: Empyrean Age Test

  • CCP has announced that they will be testing Empyrean Age, the next expansion for EVE Online, on Singularity on Saturday May 24th.

    Empyrean Age testing on Singularity next Saturday, 24 May, at 19.00 GMT

    Come one, come all, and all that junk. Next Saturday, 24 May, at 19.00 GMT we're going to be convening on our test server, Singularity, for a bit of playtesting, and you - yes, YOU, lucky and valued reader - are invited to come along.

    The plan is to have the bulk of the features for our summer expansion, Empyrean Age, up and running on Singularity this week, and the playtesting will be focusing on all the mechanisms involved in Factional Warfare, which is the main feature of the expansion.

    We're hoping to get a good number of people online so that we can give everything a good thrashing and see how it all fits together in practice.

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  • Posted: 5/14/08 4:13 PM
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• • EverQuest II: Lore: The Worst Cook in Grobb - Part 1

  • The folks at SOE have published a new piece of fiction which delves into the lore of EverQuest II.

    Kruzz dumped the bucket of viscera into the bubbling cauldron, watching as the long coil of an intestine floated to the surface and was tossed around by the bubbling of the stew. He snickered to himself slightly, and then turned, colliding with Ttzork, the head cook of Grobb. He rebounded off the mound of her belly and landed back against the cast iron of the pot, wincing as it singed his skin. His hand immediately went to the item at his neck – a dried monkey tail, harvested when the animal ran in front of him and was crushed by a falling boulder. He'd always regarded it as the luckiest moment of his life, and had refused to part with the charm since.

    "Why don't you watch where yer goin, worm," she said to him, sneering. The other cooks all paused to peer over their cook pots or carving knives and snicker at the confrontation.

    Kruzz wrung his hands and turned away, muttering, "Be a bit easier if you didn't take up quite so much space."

    There was a moment of silence as all the cooks exchanged anticipatory glances, and then Kruzz felt a vicious hook knock him straight up into the air. His rise up was followed by a quick plummet into the very bubbling pot of water he had dumped the viscera in only moments before. He screamed in pain and scrambled toward the nearest rim of the pot, where Ttzork was waiting. "Are you saying it was my fault?" she roared. "Trying to pass it off on me, eh?" She shoved him down deep into the water, and the heat of it made his skin rise and pop in bubbles. He flailed in the water, struggling against letting the pain overwhelm him as he attempted to beat at her hands. Finally, she pulled him out and threw him to the ground. Every inch of him stung as dirt and grass stuck to the skin of his burns, and he wheezed in and out as she stalked up to him.

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  • Posted: 5/14/08 4:04 PM
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• • General: Podcast #35 is Live

  • SOE has announced that episode #35 of the official SOE Podcast is now live.

    Official SOE Podcast #35 is live!!! Hear from Linda "Brasse" Carlson from thebrasse.com, we also would like to re-release our interview with Laralyn McWilliams from the Free Realms team. We chat about our ION Conference trip and EQII's Update 45. Jason Ryan's news gives us all of the info from many of the SOE titles unfortunately this Podcast some of the info is a tad out dated…! Ashlanne loses her gamer card, so stick to the forums to find out how you can help her get it back.

    Be sure to tune in! You can get your Podcast goodness two different ways head over to the Podcast's official site, and click on your preferred bandwidth or if you have iTunes installed select iTunes store, type SOE into the search box and click Subscribe! Your feedback is always welcome either on the Station forums or via email to Brenlo@soe.sony.com!

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  • Posted: 5/14/08 3:57 PM
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