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Recently we spotted an interesting post from Bill Roper, Design Director for Cryptic Studios‘ MMO Champions Online. On his Facebook page he showed a slightly blurry picture of a developers booth with the simple caption “GDC 2010: The developers of our Facebook Game.” Sure enough you can now play a Mafia Wars style Facebook game while wearing your tightest spandex! It runs in your browser and hooks up to your Facebook account so that you can choose to announce level ups and achievements. You can also invite friends to form a superteam, customize your secret base and even attack other players.

Developer Lolapps claims to have “over 40 million active users per month, and has the largest network of social games and applications on Facebook.” It looks like they know what they are doing, so it is definitely worth a look. Head over now, make your hero and get to stopping crime!

Get your Champions fix on Facebook originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When it comes to Facebook games, some MMO players look at them as being a scourge; a strange offshoot of a genre they know and love. To others, it seems the next logical step in gaming. And nobody can doubt the revenues involved are sweet for companies who manage to hook casual gamers into their games. But now, we have a heads-up from the team at Frogster Interactive that they plan on trying to cross their successful Runes of Magic IP into the Facebook casual gaming market.

Dubbed Runes of Magic: The Challenge, this new social media game (currently under development) will use the lore from Runes of Magic in a whole new casual game. The Facebook game is said to use networked gaming and viral communications and will give players “adventure, exploration, and strategy elements.” Through playing the casual game, people will gain cards with key codes that work inside Runes of Magic — thereby potentially drawing some new players off of Facebook and into the full MMO.

Our team at GDC has an interview with the Frogster Interactive and Runewaker Entertainment teams coming up later today, where we’re sure we’ll hear far more about this interesting new gaming development. We’ll bring you all the details as soon as we have them!

Filed under: MMO industry, New titles, News items, Free-to-play, Casual, Runes of Magic

Runes of Magic will be heading to Facebook with RoM: The Challenge originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lord of the Rings Online is adding to their presence in the social networking scene. Now you can let your Facebook friends know about the achievements of your Lord of the Rings Online characters via the new Player Feed.

The Player Feed is a Facebook application installed in the usual way. It uses your my.lotro account information to keep track of your characters as you choose, giving you a series of checkboxes to control which servers, characters, and achievements you want to display. It lets your friends know when you log on and log off — everything after that is up to you. (To prevent the Player Feed from spamming Facebook every time you switch characters, it will wait for a short period of time after you log out to send that notification.)

Check out the post on the LotRO site for all the details.

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, News items

Lord of the Rings Online adding Facebook Player Feed originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s a new notice up on Warcraft’s Facebook site with some intriguing new information:

Official Warcraft Facebook

Death knights, druids, hunters, mages, rogues, warlocks, warriors, oh my! For those participating in our public testing of the upcoming minor content patch 3.3.3, look out this week for a host of fascinating new adjustments to these classes. Chains of Ice innately does what? Nature’s Grasp has how many charges? Vitality boosts stamina by how much? Stay tuned to find out the answer to these and more questions!

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Patch 3.3.3 PTR: New info on Facebook originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve received word today from the team over at Faunasphere that they’re taking their game over to the land of Facebook, to show the “social gamers” what a MMO really is.

Faunsphere Facebook and Faunsphere.com will be linked together into one large world, letting users from both realms interact with one another. The game will continue to run on the same microtransaction system, where users can buy additional items for their fauna and commission scientific tests to know more about the hidden skills that lie in their favorite animals.

All we can do now is pray that this style of game catches on in Facebook, so when we ask our friends if they play any MMOs, they don’t respond with, “Oh, yeah, Farmville!” Then, we won’t feel the need to throttle people.

Filed under: Betas, Business models, MMO industry, News items, Free-to-play, Browser, Kids

Faunasphere goes Facebook originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure, a move that helps lay the groundwork for an eventual IPO.

Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure, a move that helps lay the groundwork for an eventual initial public offering.