With the Runes of Magic open beta set to go live on Monday the 15th, Frogster has revealed details about the pets and mounts players can purchase or rent in the game.
As in many other MMO titles, mounts are status symbols in the world of Runes of Magic, which means they will cost considerable amounts of cash, but there is a solution for low-level characters. Certain vendors will rent out mounts to the impoverished lowbie masses so they aren’t always left hoofing it. I am hoping they eventually add a layaway program for especially disadvantaged players.
Frogster plans on introducing mounted combat in a future patch as part of their plan to have every possible MMO feature in one game.
Cosmetic pets, like the tiny grim reaper seen above, can be found either by sifting through the corpses of the monsters you kill or purchasing them in the item shop, so rabid pet collectors might just want to avoid the game altogether lest they find themselves completely penniless and surrounded by cute little animals.
It’s a bumper White Knight Chronicles media update! Not only do we have a copy of the game’s sublime box art, but a bunch of new screenshots as well.
That wall of free stuff I’ll be giving out during Denver’s Funde Razor tonight? There’s a lot of stuff in there. How much?
Triad Toys makes Soul Calibur fans’ dreams come true with the upcoming release of their 12 inch rendition of the deadly female demon hunter Taki, complete with realistically sculpted…weapons. 
That wall of free stuff I’ll be giving out during Denver’s Funde Razor tonight? There’s so much I’ve decided to break down the freebies over a number of posts yesterday and today.
Home will indeed hit a 2008 launch, it’s most recent launch date, but only after going through an open beta, Home director Jack Buser told me in a recent interview.
Ski & Shoot is a simulation of the Biathlon - the combination cross-country skiing and rifle shooting event that I first played a version of in Epyx’s Winter Games on the Commodore 64 in (checks Wikipedia) 1986.
New screenshots from SouthPeak’s fantasy action game X-Blades highlight the odd contrast between the game’s realistic environments and the main character’s anime-inspired look.
It doesn’t look like The King of Fighters‘ jiggly ninja Mai Shiranui will be returning for The King of Fighters XII, but that won’t stop SNK from pumping out another plastic knock-up of the girl.