Better late then never!

But happy 14th year Royal(+)Knights!

It was 14 years ago that the Royal(+)Knights were founded in the game of Diablo, By First(+)Knight.

Congrats gents and gals!

To all the Legends,Elders and New blood. Its a proud tradition to keep the flame still going.

Now for some nostalgia, old Royal(+)Knights sites:
www.angelfire.com/hi2/royalbarracks/index2.html

www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/fire/808/

www.angelfire.com/hi2/royalknights/

web.archive.org/web/20030420091236/http://theroyalknights.com/

web.archive.org/web/20060112221535/http://theroyalknights.com/

any many more through out the years.

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Gratz on the Clear Guys

Graz on the new Baby Girl Tinus (Deathe/Synur).

Gratz Sphinx and Daresa on your new baby boy. (Guess this means we finally get a blue tabard )

Ok here are the specs:

Gavin arrived at 8:18 this morning and weighed 8 lbs 1oz. He was 21 and a half inches long and both him and the wife are healthy

Site has been moved over to the new host, I still have some tweaking to do. The forums seemed to not want to follow over perfectly so I'll be addressing those.

All accounts should still exist as everything has seemed to go much smoother :). We also have a much larger space/transfer rate now. 300gb of bandwith. and 13gb of space.

*edit: Forums are backup and running.

t's official. You won't be playing StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty this year, as Blizzard has moved the release date of the real-time strategy game to the "first half of 2010." No, they never dated it; but they have now.

Activision Blizzard's reason for the delay of StarCraft II is reportedly tied to the relaunch of its upgraded Battle.net service, which handles multiplayer for all things Blizzard. In a statement to the Blizzard community, the developer writes "Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game."

Blizzard calls the new Battle.net an "integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward." Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said during an investor call today that the new iteration of Battle.net will likely be ready "early next year."

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Great job everybody

Great job guys, on to Malygos and Sarth +2!

RK Gamers has successfully defeated every boss found in Naxxramas on the 10 man difficulty!  Good Job guys/gals!  On to Malygos!

Truer words were never spoken Oddly....

More pictures are in the gallery from when Monmaji went to Texas!

Have a safe and Happy Holidays everyone!!

Great so far guys!  Grats to those who got the lootzors!

Our World of Warcraft Strats page is now live!  It's got the strats for every boss in Wotlk!  To access this new page, click the Raid Strats button in the World of Warcraft drop-down menu.  If you have something to add to a strat, post in the comments for that boss!

Enjoy, and come prepared to the raids with the knowledge you need to help us win!

So the UK may be getting a pretty sweet deal with an 80GB "Blu-ray entertainment" PS3 pack for 300 quid, but for us Americans, we've got something even sweeter ... potentially! Why potentially? Because some of you out there will get the deal, while others will not. This is how it works: Amazon is offering three different discounted packages to its members; however, they will have to vote for only one of these as the one they want.

Casting a vote enters you in a chance to buy the items at the discounted price, BUT only if the majority votes in favor of your bundled set. If your choice wins, then you have a chance to be one of the lucky 500 who can snag a PS3 at that amazingly low price. Seriously, a full functioning PS3 with built-in Wi-Fi and an HDD (plus extras) for the price of the stripped down Xbox 360 Arcade? It's a good value and worth trying if you don't already have a PS3. The voter's bundle winner will go on sale by Friday, Nov. 28. So, just what are the choices? The image above shows it all, though we've written everything down after the break. And, of course, hit Amazon to vote!

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In a bold move, the lich king has sent his forces to attack both Ogrimmar and Stormwind.  Frostwyrms and abominations could be found attacking both cities last night, with King Varian Wrynn and friends working to beat them back from the Stormwind Harbour, and the forces of Ogrimmar working to keep their city from being destroyed.

The Lich King made a bold decision in attacking these two prominant cities, and it is one that both the Alliance and the Horde will not soon forget.  Come Thursday, we will head to Northrend, and show Arthas what he's messing with!

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Over on the Warhammer fan site, Warhammer Vault, RK Gamers has been selected as this week's Guild of the Week!

To read the full article, head on over to their site HERE .

"A chill is in the air. The twin moons Morrslieb and Mannslieb wax full, bathing the land in an eerie, pale light. The furtive footfalls of creatures unknown crunch on dead leaves deep in the dark woods. Strange apparitions half-glimpsed between the skeletal limbs of trees wander in the shadowy hollows. The souls of men are filled with dread, for the Witching Night approaches!"

- Mythic Entertainment

Witching Night includes 4 new ORvR PQs!  Yes thats right Compete with the order for contribution for unique lewts!

Masks and Cloaks specific to the Live event are avaliable only during the events.  These PQs wont reset like others. mytic states it'll take hours!

More Details on The Witching Hour can be found here.

Full Details on patch 1.0.4 here.

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Mark Jacobs of Mythic Entertainment has posted the following State of the Game Address:


Folks,

After over three years of work and one of the smoothest launches in MMORPG history, WAR is moving quickly towards the end of its first month. This is a perfect time to take a look at where we were, where we are and where we are going. First, on behalf of everyone at Mythic, I would like to thank you for your interest in our game.

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Tommorrow, patch 3.0.2 will hit live realms in World of Warcraft.  Titled the Echoes of Doom, Patch 3.0.2 will bring all the talent changes, spell changes, and more that will be a part of Wrath of the Lich King when it hits next month.

Highlights of the Patch:

• Barbershops are now open for business!  Style your hair like you just don't care!
• New talents and spells for all classes. Woot!
• The achievement system is now live!  Get to work on the gazillion achievements added
• Mounts and Pets are now spells, no more taking up bag space!
• Two new Arena maps!
• New Raid buff system!
• New Profession:  Inscription!

Full Patch notes after the jump

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Fresh from Blizzcon this weekend comes the announcement that Starcraft II will be split into three separate campaigns.  According to various reports, this will allow the developers to fully flesh out the story that they wish to tell with Starcraft II.

Sure, Spore's DRM sucked. Yes, many people were left disappointed with the game after expecting way too much from it. But did you know that you can apparently recreate StarCraft factions using the game's editor? A Korean StarCraft fan (I know, I know) on the website Ruliweb has shared some of his (or her) Terran creations in Will Wright's opus.

Going by the Google translated username Krabby Patty (even though the Korean translates closer to something like Crab Burger, Krabby Patty is just too cool to not use) , the user shared several screenshots of a Terran base and vehicles. While there are no Zerg or Protoss Spore creations yet, we can now only hold our breath and wait until the next genius Korean StarCraft fan gets his (or her) hands on Spore. Finally StarCraft players will be able to take their Zerg rushes to a galactic scale...

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Mark Jacobs, CEO of Mythic entertainment has taken a stand against gold farmers.  In a blog post on Gamasutra, he tells us " I HATE GOLD SELLERS WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING."  With this hatred, he and the Mythic team are taking a very agressive stance against gold farmers, banning them left, right, and centre.  Since the launch of WAR, over 1000 gold farmer accounts have been banned.  The full blog post can be read at Gamasutra here

Update(Sept 26,2008) - As you can see, the number has jumped from 1400 yesterday to over 4000 today!  It's good to see them being so agressive!

Goal Line Blitz

Are you ready for some football? If you haven't already heard of it, Goal Line Blitz is an American Football Simulation MMORPG. It's so addicting to a football fan I simply just can get enough. It's very fun, better then KOL! There are a number of RK members who currently have players on various teams around a few leagues.

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Aparently Its selling so well that its made more money than the recent Clone Wars movie!

They pushed 1.5 million copies in a week.  they dont belive their inital release of 4.3 mil will be enough  before supplies can be repleanished.

All info grabbed from "Kotaku

Blizzard released a new timeline  listing events up until this point in the series.  You can read more about the history of what has happened here.

DIRECTV has just announced further details for their pay per view package of BlizzCon coverage, and that the special promotion offering it free with a new subscription is now open. New DIRECTV subscribers in the US who sign up for DIRECTV by September 30 through www.blizzard.directv.com or 800-728-9375 will receive the package for free, while existing DIRECTV customers will be able to order it for $39.95 beginning on September 28. For full details, check out the official announcement, or head over to the BlizzCon site.
           

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It's been a while since we've heard about PlayStation Home. This new video goes through all the things you can do in the online community. For example, you can play a game of chess with an online stranger. You can customize your character, your apartment. You can walk through Game Spaces for various titles, like Warhawk. For those of you not in the beta right now, this is a rare opportunity to see everything that's happening in Home right now.

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We're happy to announce that World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King will ship in standard as well as Collector's Edition packages. The Collector's Edition will come in a special box that contains many exclusive extras to enhance your adventure into Northrend, including:

* World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King on DVD-ROM.
    * The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.
    * An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.
    * A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary, and more.

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Due to a miscommunications, it appears that RKGamers has chosen a server unavailable to the CE Head start people.

To rectify this, a number of us have re-chosen a new server...Sylvania!!

So, if you're going to be playing WAR, that's where we are.  Look us up, and squish some Stunties with us!

WAAAAAAAGH

The new PTR (Public Test Realm) is up and running, allowing you kids to test out all the goodness of your new talent trees!  One thing to note:  Amani Warbears and Naxx will both be gone when this patch hits, so if there's something you need to do.....

Here's the full patch notes, and what I like to call...a massive freaking wall of text.

PTR Patch Notes

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

• All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 51-point talents. Several new spells and abilities have been added for all classes. Players will need to visit their class trainer to learn new spells.

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For those of us in beta (i just got an invite today, Woot!)

there is a new build as of Wednesday that brings quite a few

interesting things to the table.

First off, there are now Bind on Account items, which are pretty cool.  They are the same as Bind on Pickup items, however, you can trade them to characters across your own account!  That's not the best part either...

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The game known as SPORE was released on Sept 7th.

Take a look at the sporepedia

After nearly eight years in the making, the world saw the release of Spore from Will 'Toy Maker' Wright's Maxis studio. Spore has been touted and speculated as a god game or a simulation of everything; however, in our humble opinion it's neither a game nor a complete simulation, at least not in the strictest sense of the words. What Spore offers is an opportunity for a controlled experiment in nature, or evolution if you will.

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Lots of info on MMO-Champion about upcoming class changes, and drops off the Naxx 10-man over the last couple of days. It would seem a few classes are getting quite the over-haul, and that mana regen across the board is just too good...

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I've put up two new images from the Wrath Beta.  If there's anything you guys would like to see, please let me know!

The first image is a massive undead dude who patrols around the main path in Zul'drak. 

He's about twice the size of a fel reaver, so be prepared to watch your back when questing there!

The second image is for the lore nuts out there.  Nozdorumu, the Aspect of Time has finally made an appearance at the end of a quest chain in Dragonblight.

Check them out in our images gallery!