http://www.zam.com/ ZAM gaming news rss feed http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=19256 </blockquote><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=19256">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=18580 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Today we have important news to share with the community. EA is restructuring its RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic and BioWare. This newly formed team will be led by Ray Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new&#160; RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare&#8217;s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare&#8217;s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.<br /><br />Mark Jacobs, current General Manager of Mythic will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.</p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=18580">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17907 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Welcome to Version 1.98!&#160; In this version we gave detailed attention to Warlocks and made some improvements to our Nature-Specialized Druids.&#160; Additionally, we have fixed an issue with augmented strength, increased our sever population cap, and delivered a new set of in-game maps.&#160; There are many more items included with this version that we hope you will enjoy.<br />&#160;<br /><strong>NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES</strong><br /><br />&#160;- Implemented high resolution maps for all zones.<br /><br />&#160;- Maps now show horse, boat, and flight routes.<br /><br />&#160;- Added improved textures on various world objects in the game, including signs, road markers, tapestries, and certain trees.</p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17907">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17892 <p>Surprise! Server <a href="http://www.camelotherald.com/news/news_article.php?storyid=3846" target="_blank">down time</a> today to bring us patch 1.98:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Update: 8:10 AM EDT - All servers are now offline.<br /><br />Wednesday, May 6th, all servers will be coming down at 8:00 a.m. EDT so that we can bring you Version 1.98. We are estimating that the servers will be back up at approximately 3:00pm EDT. As always keep an eye on the Herald for updates and news concerning the server downtime!</p> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17867 <p>Here are the <a href="http://www.camelotherald.com/news/news_article.php?storyid=3845" target="_blank">population bonus</a> changes that went live today:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">These changes are currently live:<br />Bossiney: Albion (2 days), Hibernia (2 days), Midgard (2 days)<br />Devon: Albion (6 days), Hibernia (6 days), Midgard (6 days)<br />Killibury: Albion (2 days), Hibernia (2 days), Midgard (2 days)<br /><br />Please review our <strong><a href="http://www.camelotherald.com/popbonuses/" target="_blank">Population Bonuses</a></strong> page for more details.<br /><br />Please Note: When a Population Bonus is changed, it alters every Free Level Timer on the Cluster. In Game Support can not verify your old timer, or alter your current timer. We're sorry for the inconvenience!&#160;</p> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17740 <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES</strong><br /><br />&#160;- With version 1.98c, we've introduced a redesigned Market Explorer search window. The new fields ("Merchant," "Armor class," "Damage Type," and "Miscellaneous") are not yet functional, but will be working soon.<br /><br />&#160;- Fixed an issue which was causing items on listed Consignment Merchants to not show up in the Market Explorer search.</p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17740">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17674 <p>The title says it all. A <a href="http://www.camelotherald.com/news/news_article.php?storyid=3841" target="_blank">hot fix</a> hit the live servers today that corrected the bug where the Abandoned Pants of Weyland registered for the glove slot instead of the leg slot. And in continued maintenance of the server the Camelot Herald is hosted on, the <a href="http://www.camelotherald.com/news/news_article.php?storyid=3840" target="_blank">Herald will be down</a> from 6:00AM EST until 12:00PM EST this coming Monday, April 20th.</p> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17662 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">CLASS CHANGES AND FIXES<br /> Warlocks<br /> <br /> With 1.98b, we are introducing several major changes to the current layout of how warlock spells are organized into their specialization lines. As such, all Warlocks have had all training points refunded, and may visit their trainers to respecialize.</p><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17662">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17589 </blockquote><br/><a href="http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17589">View in full...</a> http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=17574 <p>Grab a basket, buff up, and grab a weapon its time for the return of Camelot's spring-o-rifiic <a href="http://www.camelotherald.com/news/news_article.php?storyid=3837" target="_blank">egg hunt</a>!</p> <blockquote> <p>Spring has come to the Realms once again, and Lady Mirabelle has returned to begin this year's egg hunt festivities. She can be found in Castle Sauvage, Druim Ligen, or Svasud Faste. Quests range from level 15 - 49 on classic and normal servers and 35 - 49 on PvP and PvE servers. Join the hunt and the fun!</p> </blockquote>