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Today at the Game Developer's Conference in Cologne, Germany, CCP pulled the curtain off an FPS that has been in development by the Requiem money company's Shanghai office for three years. The game will combine FPS and RTS elements, and is set on the planets of EVE Online.
The eighth expansion to Ultima Online, entitled "Stygian Abyss" launch September 8th, 2009. The new expansion will introduce Gargoyles as a playable race; include several new areas, and allegedly one of the biggest dungeons to ever appear in Ultima Online.
The expansion is currently undergoing an open beta, which is available to all current subscribers. The beta test will run from August 14 through August 23, 2009.
The announcement, which included a video featuring game-play footage, was made during a keynote address by CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Peterson at the Game Developers Conference in Cologne, Germany.
Rise of the Gods layer, however, will not be an expansion as you normally understand it. Instead of expanding the game vertically, like so many other MMOs, RotG will be expanding the game horizontally.
The expansion will only be available digitally, and will run you $30 for the expansion alone, or $40 for the expansion with an included free month of game time.
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