The Daily Recap

Hellgate: London goes to Korea, makes it big
So do you remember when Hellgate: London wanted you to give it a second chance? Well apparently it found a new Korean boyfriend. Launching in beta-mode last January 15th, Hellgate has since officially launched on February 22nd to critical success.
Ask Cryptic answers custom animations query
This week's Ask Cryptic is kind of all over the place. While there may not be a nicely organized cohesion to the questions and answers, there are some very cool new bits of information.
AoC teases a new character selection screen
Those rapscallions at FunCom must love the power they wield over us — releasing provocative statements, pushing the live date back — and now this. According to their site, they've uncovered a never-before-seen character selection video, straight from the dev team.
The Digital Continuum: MMO-unfriendly games
t's a subject that's been touched on here at Massively not once or twice, but three times. Still, I feel like there's more to be said on the subject of making some non-MMO games into actual MMOs.
1.20: Changing your mind about avatar lag
One of the things that the new Second Life 1.20 release candidate viewer sports is a nifty new feature that busts some serious myths about avatar related lag. In short, by enabling the option, every avatar gets a number displayed over their heads showing how much work your PC needs to go through to render the avatar. This is the avatar rendering cost.

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