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FIRST STAR WARS EXPANSION ANNOUNCED; TO BE TITLED “NECROMANCY AND ALCHEMY” [Author: Lum the Mad]

(If you don’t get the title, it’s a UO thing. You wouldn’t understand.) Two Star Wars Galaxies newsbits out of E3 today: the first actual screenshots (the forest scenes looking an awful lot like Luclin) and an announced expansion that adds the first word of the game

UO TO LOSE ITS LEAD DESIGNER AND LEAD PROGRAMMER? [Author: Lum the Mad]

According to Jinx, who has a better accuracy rate on these things than we do (mainly because he never says anything about Asheron’s Call), Paul Sage, UO’s Lead Designer, and Kirk “Runesabre” Black. UO’s longtime lead programmer and now executive producer, are both leaving OSI. As he

E3 DAY ONE: WE ARE SO NOT THERE [Author: Lum the Mad]

Welcome to E3 2001: Day One, otherwise known as “screw it, we’ll go tomorrow”. Since I’m still stuck in Cubicle 2341, I’m forced to get my news from Los Angeles today, not from the E3 floor, but from that noted gaming journal “The Los Angeles Times” (for

THERE ARE STILL SMALL PARTS OF ONE PERSON PLAYING ASHERONS CALL. BUT YOU CAN HELP! [Author: Lum the Mad]

Ken “Ken Troop” Troop posted in Lietgardis’ patch-day thread explaining exactly what is going on at Turbine lately. It is well known that AC actually has been losing 80% of its customer base each month for the last 6 months. As everyone also knows, we started out with a total

WHO WILL CRY IT JOINS HAND? [Author: Lum the Mad]

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THE CHANGING OF THE WAYS [Author: Lietgardis]

Some highlights, all of a “THERE IS A GOD!” magnitude: * Players are now given the coordinates of their characters’ corpses when they die outside. * Stat buffs now last as long as skill buffs of the same level. * All debuff spells have had their durations halved. * Pyreals are now weightless! * Stack

GREETINGS FROM UGO. I’M YOUR NEW ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE, DR. EVIL. [Author: Lum the Mad]

As reported on Slashdot, UGO is now sending its endlessly hopeful affiliates new contracts that enjoin the affiliates from suing UGO for breaking the other 9,322 contracts that UGO has sent out to its very hopeful and optimistic affiliates. So, basically, if UGO’s affiliates want to continue to