http://www.zam.com/ ZAM gaming news rss feed http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20652 <p>A reminder from <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=51720">EQLive</a> about gaining early access to the Underfoot expansion:</p> <blockquote>If you have participated in all three Road to Underfoot events, Pre-order and Purchase the expansion by December 1, 2009, you'll be one of the first to experience EverQuest&#174; Underfoot&#8482; on December 8, 2009, a full week before the release date of December 15, 2009! <br /><br />The Road to Underfoot events are listed below: <li>Giants, Giants, Giants</li> <li>Ancient Heroes</li> <li>Breaking the Seal</li> <br /><br />If you aren't sure whether or not you have completed each of the events, you can check under the My Account management tool on the Station banner.</blockquote> <p>For more information about these events and checking out your status, see <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=51720"><strong>this post</strong></a> on EQLive.</p> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20627 <blockquote>We are pleased to announce that beginning December 17, 2009, SOE will no longer charge separately for access to Station Players premium features for each of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, EverQuest and EverQuest II. Access to standard and premium Station Players features will now be included at no additional cost for all subscribers to each of these games (with active, paid subscriptions in good standing.) Station Access subscribers with active, paid subscriptions in good standing will continue to have access to all Station Players standard and premium features.</blockquote><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20627">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20615 <p>From the patcher: Here's a sneak peek at the Update notes for Thursday, November 19th <br /><br />*** Miscellaneous *** <br /><br />- The Mission Teleporter window should no longer cause message spam. <br />- Fixed an issue with the Vitrik Wing Swipe ability not affecting the proper targets. <br />- Fixed an issue that caused custom UI&#8217;s to not display the correct right-click menus in the group window. <br />- Disabled the ability to make purchases on the marketplace during monster missions to prevent players losing items. <br />- /clear can be used to clear your chat window once again. <br /><br />- The EverQuest Team</p> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20598 </p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20598">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20586 <p>For many of us, <a href="http://everquest.allakhazam.com/" target="_self">EverQuest</a> served as our initial foray into the world of massively multiplayer online games, and this much-heralded title helped pave the way for blockbuster games like <a href="http://wow.allakhazam.com/" target="_self">World of Warcraft</a> and <a href="http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/" target="_self">Final Fantasy XI</a>. Despite being over ten years old, the Sony Online Entertainment devs are still hard at work on EQ, and they're nearing the release of their next expansion, <a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/image/gallery/148275" target="_self">Underfoot</a>.</p> <p>To give you a sneak peek of the new zones, SOE shipped <a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/image/gallery/148275" target="_self">five exclusive screenshots</a> to the ZAM.com staffers, and now you can view them before anyone else! <a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/image/gallery/148275" target="_self">Check 'em out</a>, and then go and view all of our <a href="http://www.zam.com/game.html?page=screenshots;game=14" target="_self">Underfoot screenshots</a>!</p> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20503 <p>Here's a sneak peek at Wednesday's Game Update Notes (from the patcher):<br /><br />*** Highlights *** <br /><br />- AC and Attack values on food and drink will now be properly added to your character.<br />- Corrected the description on The Frightening Writ.&#160; It now properly mentions that it grants access to a scarecrow mercenary rather than the title "the Haunted."&#160; It will now grant access to the new title "the Gravedigger."&#160; This title is retroactive - if you have already used your Writ, you will now have access to your Gravedigger title.<br />- All UI engine changes required by the expansion are now live.&#160; Some patching of UIs may be required.&#160;&#160; Most of the popular UIs should already be updated - check your favorite UI site.</p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20503">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20478 </p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20478">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20467 <p>The journey into the depth of Underfoot continues at ZAM this week. We've seen some frightening screenshots from the <a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/tag/UFExclusive" target="_self">Pellucid Grotto</a> and couldn't help but be a bit horrified <a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/tag/EQ110209" target="_self">by the insectoid Cliknar</a>. This week, we search the cavernous maw known as <a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/image/gallery/147592" target="_self">the Lichen Creep</a>, and come away with a new respect for the plant-like substance. We have exclusive images from the zone, so if you want a sneak peek, click below.</p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20467">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20379 <p><a href="http://www.zam.com/Im/image/gallery/147207" target="_self">Click here to see the new exclusive screenshots!</a></p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20379">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20378 </p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20378">View in full...</a>