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Sony Online Entertainment Acquires Sigil Games Online
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Written by Kaji   
Friday, 18 May 2007

May 15, 2007 San Diego, CA – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), a global leader in the online games industry, today announced that it has completed a transaction to purchase key assets of Sigil Games Online, Inc. Through the deal, SOE now owns Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Sigil’s tentpole property, a highly-successful massively multiplayer online game. The Sigil acquisition also builds on SOE’s successful strategy of cultivating game development studios around the world to further boost the company’s capabilities. The announcement was made by John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment.

As part of the acquisition, a majority of the Sigil team will join SOE, integrating into SOE’s worldwide group of studios which includes offices in San Diego, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Los Angeles and Taiwan. The acquisition will strengthen SOE’s position as a leader in the online gaming space by expanding the company’s portfolio of gaming offerings.

“With an unparalleled team and exceptional product, Sigil has been a creative force in the online games space. We look forward to continuing the vision for Vanguard and to continue to deliver some groundbreaking game play,” said Smedley.

In May 2006, SOE acquired the title’s rights and the two companies agreed to co-publish Vanguard. The MMO launched in late January of this year and has sold nearly 200,000 retail and digital units worldwide. Sigil CEO and Vanguard creator, Brad McQuaid will become a consultant with SOE as Vanguard Creative Advisor.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes takes place in the fantasy setting of Telon, a vast and ancient world of magic, intrigue and adventure where thousands of players from around the world have formed a steadfast community exploring the grandeur of a world crafted by the seminal fantasy artist Keith Parkinson. The game introduced many groundbreaking new features and an art direction second to none.

About Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers around the globe. SOE creates, develops and provides compelling entertainment for the personal computer, online, game console and wireless markets. Known for its blockbuster franchises and hit titles including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, Untold Legends™, and PlanetSide®, as well as for developing Star Wars Galaxies™, SOE continues to redefine the business of online gaming and the creation of active player communities while introducing new genres on various entertainment platforms. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, with additional development studios in Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, and Taiwan, SOE has an array of cutting-edge games in development. SOE is owned by Sony Pictures Digital and Sony Computer Entertainment America.

SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest and PlanetSide are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. Untold Legends is a trademark of Sony Online Entertainment LLC.

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New Mounts Available Today
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Written by Kaji   
Wednesday, 18 April 2007

Silky Venom is reporting that Sigil will patch two new mounts - the Unicorn and Shadow Hound - into the game with today's patch.

Read more in the original post at Silky Venom

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INC Monk Love!
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Written by Kaji   
Wednesday, 11 April 2007

The patch notes for build 1803 suggest that Sigil has started addressing some of our issues.  It's no revamp, but it's a start!

 

- Monk – Increased the effectiveness of Dragon Stance slightly and added a visual indicator of the regeneration values.
- Monk – Storm Dragon Stance has been altered. It now increases damage by a percentage, increases crit chance and adds a chance to proc a large lightning based damage spell.
- Monk – Drunken Mastery Stance has been altered. It now increases the hate generated by all attacks, grants a 10% decrease to refresh timers for abilities that are executed while in the stance and it still increases dodge chance by 5%.
- Monk – Harmonious Body Stance now adds Jin every 10 seconds, down from 20.

 

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Vanguard Monks DPS Parser
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Written by Kaji   
Friday, 09 March 2007

As we have seen recently, Sigil has begun to tweak and balance the classes in an attempt to address the concerns of the Vanguard community.  Many players feel that their class is not where it should be, and that further attempts should be made to balance each archetype according to their role in the group, and the play-style of the players.  The primary concern for many monks (and other offensive fighters) is Damage Per Second (DPS.)

A couple of weeks ago, I began to play around with the idea of writing a DPS parser for Vanguard.  The original plan was to make it a feature of Vanguard Monks - but it became clear that a networked application would not be able to handle the bandwidth and CPU requirements that uploading and parsing large log files would require.  I have been looking for a reason to learn C# and the .NET framework for a while now (my professional background is on the Unix side of the pond - mostly Perl, PHP, C/C++, a little Java, etc.) - and I decided that this would be it.

 

DPS Parser Screenshot
 

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Double XP Weekend - March 10th-12th
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Written by Kaji   
Thursday, 08 March 2007

Sigil has announced that we will be gaining double XP in the Adventuring sphere again this weekend!   So, whether you missed it last time - or just want to level up a bit - be sure to get in the game this Saturday and Sunday!

 

To put players right in the action of Game Update #1 and as a continued thanks to our community, we are giving players a second opportunity to receive double adventuring kill experience this weekend! (3/10/07-3/12/07)

Be ready to face new challenges and explore new lands as you dive into the depths of Game Update #1 and continue your adventures in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes!

The event is on all servers and corresponds with the daily restarts:

STARTS: Saturday, March 10th, 5:00am PST (Saturday, March 10th, 4:00am GMT for Europeans)
ENDS: Monday, March 12th, 5:00am PST (Monday, March 12th, 4:00am GMT for Europeans)

See you in Telon,
- The Vanguard Team

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