Arctic Combat New Content +Partners With Microsoft

                  On January 24, Arctic Combat reveals new content: the QBZ-95 assault rifle, favored by the Chinese military; the compact but powerful personal defense weapon, the P90; and the always effective Kriss SV Bengal Tiger. A new “Snow” camouflage paint for weapons is also included with this new content.

Along with this latest artillery, the worldwide battleground widens with the introduction of the new ‘Syria’ map, a desert-themed taking players to the Far East.

    

Arctic Combat Veterans can enlist in a series of new events and promotions. Opportunities for players include an ‘800 Minute’ event, rewarding Veterans who h

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Lineage II Over 1.5MIL new Acounts in 2012

L2 went free-to-play last year, and according to the newest state of the game letter. The letter points out that more than one and a half million new accounts were created in 2012 alone, an impressive number for any game and doubly so for a game approaching its ninth anniversary. Over 800,000 store items have been sold, solidifying the game's performance and moneymaking capabilities. In other words, if you were worried the game wasn't doing well, you can stop worrying

      The development team is also looking into a variety of improvements for players :

              

NCoin store “Gift” option in the L2 StoreTradable Store ItemsBattle TournamentExpanded

Superhero Cos Play

Although cosplay has been present for decades within the comics, anime, and sci-fi/fantasy fandoms, social media has played an integral role in the thriving communities of costuming that exist. In honor of the many fans who've displayed excellence in the mastery of homemade disguise, craftsmanship, and sartorial superheroics, ComicsAlliance has created Best Cosplay Ever , an ongoing collection of some of the most impeccable, creative, and clever costumes that we've discovered and assembled into a super-showcase of pure fan-devoted talent.

Selene the Black Queen, cosplayed by KassandraLeigh, photographed by Sweet Sensations Photograph

Cammy, cosplayed by Windofthestars

Superman & Batman, cosplayed by Gerardo Rivera and Dax Armand,

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The Future of LOTRO and TSW

I do find in interesting and enjoyable to not only look forward, but also take a look back at what we’ve done in the past.  I’m going to limit my predictions to the two main MMOs I’m playing these days (LOTRO and TSW).  Before I look ahead, lets see how well (or poorly) I did predicting 2012.

I ended up not doing too badly with many of my predictions but did miss on a couple:

The Warden class did get some love, and post Update 9 I think they’re in a pretty darn good place I thought we’d get more content in 2012, but I think we were more or less on par with 1 expansion and 3 other updates. I was VERY close on the Rohan release date as I said October but it launched in September. I was also really close with the Mounted Combat idea and really only m