The Chronicles of Spellborn will gain a (metric) tonne of features in its upcoming patch, 1.03. A lot of dreams players have are coming true. Unfortunately (for me), the letter I got from Spellborn was in German. I’ll try to do a little bit of (probably wildly wrong) translation above the fold, and the full letter is in the original German afterward. Called “The Scroll of Swords & Münzen”. ...
From Acclaim’s Community Manager, Historian, comes this news via Twitter: The Official Spellborn Download for Acclaim is up on our forums. … and when asked if those accepted into the beta test would know by checking their account status at the Acclaim site, or if there would be an email, replied: most likely checking your status will be faster than the email.. but If I get word people have been activated I will post it. ...
In 2007, you could have surprised absolutely nobody by predicting that 2008, last year, would be the biggest, best year ever for MMOs. Triple A titles abounded – Age of Conan and Warhammer Online were both just going to tear WoW a new one, but heck, even WoW was coming out with its second expansion. Pirates of the Burning Sea would take MMOs into a new direction, Chronicles of Spellborn would be an indie hit from Europe, and Flagship would be following up Hellgate: London with their MMO homage to Diablo II, Mythos. ...
It’s just one day shy of a week since the folks at Acclaim proudly stated Spellborn would be entering closed beta this very week. Has anyone gotten in yet? And if so, without breaking the NDA, is the stability good? How do you like the new tutorial on the shardship? How fun will it be once you find out you can’t skip it with subsequent characters? :) Well, maybe they’ll add some way around that. (This is based on the EU version of the game) ...
After the fold is the second half of last Friday’s developer chat. Again, any errors in transcribing it are mine, and for the actual chat right from the mouths of the devs, you can find the full MP3 recording over on Historian’s site. In this half of the transcript, we learn about what’s coming for PvP, solo and group instances, what’s coming for the end game, how solo friendly the game is, and much, much more. ...
This is a transcript of the first half of the Acclaim Spellborn developer chat. The first half, as in, I typed until my fingers could type no more – and I was just halfway through. Even in the first half, though, many exciting topics come up. In attendance were David Perry; Howard Marks, the CEO of Acclaim; Neal, the CTO of Acclaim, Aaron from marketing and communication; Historian, the Acclaim Community Manager; and El Drijver, the Spellborn lead designer, on the phone from the Netherlands. ...
Acclaim’s Community Manager, ‘Historian’, just posted the audio for today’s Spellborn developer chat. In attendance were David Perry and El Drijver, Lead Designer for Spellborn. Head on over and give it a listen.
Breaking news! Acclaim CEO Howard Marks says Chronicles of Spellborn closed beta starts NEXT WEEK! I’d love to talk about Spellborn. I’ve been a big fan of it for a couple years now, wrote about it at every opportunity at Massively, even had the collector’s box set shipped from Germany and leveled up chars on the EU servers because I REALLY LOVE THIS GAME. Cue creepy “ ” music… ...
Check out that xp bar! Less than one bubble to 46… I was tired and tuckered out last night from two late nights of programming image filters (the latest result is the candy-colored candy shop seen in my ShutterCal widget), but while a test image rendered, I thought maybe I’d just jump into Wizard 101 and see if Suri was up for a trip through Big Ben or Kensington. I love running through Big Ben. ...
I took a lot of pictures while adventuring in Spellborn. I intended to make a huge gallery post, but did a comic instead. You can see all the (decent) photos I took by visiting my Spellborn Gallery. Each screen shot has a caption explaining where it was taken and other interesting info. If you really want to get a feel for what the world of the Enclave looks like, check it out.