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MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh took Square Enix's new fantasy MMORPG Fantasy Earth Zero for a test drive in this latest hands on preview focused on the game's combat gameplay.

MMORPG.com's Garrett Fuller spoke to Portalarium CEO Fred Schmidt and Chairman Dallas Snell about their partnership with gaming visionary Richard Garriott, as well as their plans for Portalarium in the social networking game space in this latest interview.

Those of you picking up your copy of Final Fantasy XIII for the PS3 today should be excited by the latest revelation to come out of the US PlayStation blog. Every copy of the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII will come with an exclusive in-game item for Final Fantasy XIV, as well as the ability "to enter for a potential opportunity to become a beta tester for FINAL FANTASY XIV for PS3."

MMORPG.com columnist Justin Webb writes this latest article on how the appropriate use of "beats" makes for a good story, and how MMOG developers just don't seem to get that, or care!

The LA Times is reporting that Bigpoint Games, which is co-owned by SyFy parent company NBC Universal, is developing a new MMOG based on the "Battlestar Galactica" IP.

MMORPG.com Staff Writer Bill Murphy gives us a rundown of six absolute must-haves for a zombie-themed MMO in this latest edition of The List.

As the trickle of information from this year's Game Developers Conference begins to come in, we've learned that 38 Studios has partnered with Electronic Arts Partners to publish "Project Mercury," which is a singleplayer RPG introduction to the Copernicus universe. Copernicus, of course, is the secretive MMOG that has been in development at 38 Studios for some time now.

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For those people who don’t care about the 7DRL game design challenge, don’t worry — things will be back to normal this weekend. I’ve just finished day 3 of the seven days, and I’ve almost finished the basic mechanics.

Today I added the inventory system and integrated it into the targeting window. You can only wield one item at a time; I’m not going to bother with armor and that stuff. If you want to use something, you will be holding it.

The targeting window show (in order of preference): What you’re targeting on the floor in the current room; what you are holding; or you. It shouldn’t be possible to have a blank targeting window. It looks weird when it’s empty.

Yesterday I had the targeting window and stuff in a gray box. Today I removed the gray box and just put the stuff on the side of the graph paper. I found a readable calligraphic font for the messages which I like very much. This game is not ending up very much like I had envisioned it, but I am constantly tweaking the game to make it look better and be more playable.

I have combat to add, and that will be tomorrow — combat, killing, monster loot, monster respawning and the ability to descend levels. I should probably put health bars somewhere. And it would be a good time to add the “you’re dead” screen.

I have a LOT of ideas for how I would do this game if I had more than seven days. But right now, I am just focused on finishing this and not making it too complicated. I’ve looked at previous 7DRL entries. Most of them are VERY simple, and I have to learn by their example and keep THIS simple.

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