‘Rift’ achieves Guinness World Record for most in-game marriages

Love was definitely in the air in Trion Worlds’ Rift last week as the game added in-game wedding ceremonies. In fact, so many people “got married” that the game officially set a Guinness World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. 21,879 marriages took place, if I’m reading things correctly, and the folks over at Guinness will log the marriages and the record may be included in the 2013 Gamer’s Edition of the record book. If you took part, you get the special title “The Avowed.” “Establishing this record was a monumental achievement for our development team and community of passionate players, and I couldn’t be more proud,” said Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer on Rift and Trion’s CCO. “Ascended Weddings were a great way to lift the veil on Rift’s new ‘Gatherings’ feature, social experiences that bring players together in new and interesting ways.  We look forward to expanding this great new gameplay element

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Origin adds downloads from publishers that…well, aren’t EA

Electronic Arts announced today that they’re adding games to their Origin platform from publishers other than themselves. That’s an important step for the service to take if they ever want people to take it seriously (or as less of an annoyance), for sure. The first game to be added is Trion Worlds’ MMO Rift. Other titles are coming from ten more publishers (Robot Entertainment, CD PROJEKT RED, Freebird Games, Recoil Games, Autumn Games, 1C Company, inXile entertainment, Paradox Interactive, Core Learning Ltd. and N3V Games) in the coming months. “Origin is focused on providing choice to consumers and the games they play,” said Craig Rechenmacher, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Origin at EA. “From blockbuster franchises to high-quality independent titles, we’re bringing the industry’s best content to one place. We’re excited to welcome new partners and a diverse new line-up of titles to Origin today.” If you’re

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Weekly Roundup Episode 20

This one got recorded a little late, so you get it a little late — apologies! But yay, it’s our 20th show! And Summer is back! This week, it’s mostly a Gamescom wrap-up, with new hardware up for discussion. We also talk about the London riots and why GTA isn’t causing them, why getting EA’s games back on Steam would be awesome and SWTOR’s artificial limiting. We’re still giving away a copy of RIFT, too, so listen for that! Download the mp3 here. Be sure to let us know what you think using iTunes’ review system! Subscribe to the show here.

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Interview: Deanna Nygren 3D artist for Certain Affinity

Crimson Alliance is an action role playing game for Xbox live arcade, set to be released September 7th.  I had the amazing opportunity to talk to one of the many talents behind this game, that has also worked in the upcoming Halo anniversary edition.  Deanna Nygren not only is capable of balancing her 3D artist job, but keeps up and plays video games in her spare time. GamingAngels: So what attracted you to working as a 3D artist? Deanna Nygren: It was my interest in technology, videogames, problem solving and love for fantasy/sci-fi that initially helped steer me towards a career as a 3d artist.  Additionally, I was attracted to working within a collaborative team environment, having artistic freedom and the portrayed culture of game development studios. Have you always wanted to create games? I knew I always wanted to be an artist.  Before my decision to get into games

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Celebrate RIFT’s “unbirthday” with prizes and reduced prices

Starting August 25, RIFT is going to celebrate its first half-year in the MMO world with a week of “unbirthday” celebrations until September 1. Whether you’re already playing the game or not, there’s something for you. Subscribers get a host of bonuses: Special Surprise Birthday Gift – Following the event, all active subscribers will receive a special in-game birthday surprise to commemorate the occasion! Bonus Experience – Your blood-lust is rewarded with bonus experience in both PvE and PvP Guild Bonus Experience – Swiftly level-up your guild with bonus XP granted for completing guild quests Big PvP Payouts – All warfronts and open-world PvP will grant extra Favor and Prestige A Plethora of Planarite – Sealing Telara’s rifts and combating the invasions will reward you with extra planarite Bonus Plaques & Marks – Increased chance for bonus Plaques of Achievement and Marks of Ascension in all dungeons and raids Non-subscribers

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Weekly Roundup Episode 19

It’s the 19th episode and we’re doing it LIVE again! We know you’re excited. This week, Elizabeth and Tiffany talk 3DS, what they’ve been playing, gamification, THQ’s layoffs, “SyFy” and a long discussion on stand-up comedy. Oops? Also, listen to find out how you can win a copy of RIFT. You know you want it. Download the mp3 here.   As always, we encourage you to check out our partners in GamingAngels Presents: The Married Gamers, Game Dames and PrincessCast. Be sure to take a listen to Blood Angels, our True Blood podcast. If you want to see her, Elizabeth will be on a PAX Prime panel called “Infinite Respawn,” which examines gaming improving relationships. (It’s at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Just getting you ready early.) If you want to contact us, you’ve got tons of options! Twitter: @GamingAngels Email: weeklyroundup@gamingangels.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gamingangels You can also leave us a voicemail

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Slash info: Now with more “WOW!”

Hello and welcome to the /info with Xalaga and Stealthy! We’ve decided to take all of your MMO news by also absorbing all WoW news instead of having the monthly State of Azeroth and /info. This will be now your one stop shop for any and all MMO news! So without further ado, let’s see what’s been going on. Gamania  Announces the Un-Fairy Tale MMORPG, Dream Drops Based on well-known fairy tales, players can get their first look at the warped and surreal world of Dream Drops with the first in a series of just-released videos. Dream Drops Sophie Video: The video reveals how players will travel into an unexpected world of fairy tales. It’s not all sunshine and sparkles as players will find that the plots of these familiar stories have been thoroughly twisted. The sweetest storybook characters have changed into evil creatures beyond imagination. The official Dream Drops

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Slash Info: BAM is my new favorite acronym

Welcome to another edition of /info, your roundup of MMO news here on Gaming Angels.  It’s been relatively busy from the last edition, so let’s just get right into it shall we? Forsaken World launches two weeks ahead of schedule Perfect World Entertainment’s new title Forsaken World laumched 2 weeks ahead of schedule on March 9th. Six servers were available at launch, three of which are strict PvE. “Forsaken World has been our most highly anticipated game, which is evident in the fact that this has been our largest and longest closed beta to date,” said Clifton Chu, Product Manager for Forsaken World. “We would like to thank all of our beta testers in making Forsaken World the most polished and best game possible, which is one of the reasons why we are able to launch two weeks ahead of schedule.” Would you like some social networking with your MMO?

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State of Azeroth: Hello new content

Well things have been busy since the last State of Azeroth. We now have Patch 4.1 and the Firelands raid to look forward to along with some other changes coming our way. We’re also getting back two old dungeons which have been revamped to be Heroic 5-mans: Zul’Gurub and Zul’Aman. And yes the mounts are back. Let’s get into some more news. News The biggest news to come out has been information regarding patch 4.1 and the Firelands raid. Firelands will be coming in 4.2 and we’ve been able to get some ideas of what the new raid will be like. I’m going to start with Ragnaros himself, who’s model we’ve been able to see. Many complaints have come about due to the size of his stubby little legs. Personally I’m not a fan at all. I much prefer his original form that we’ve seen (and beaten) before. Granted things

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