Acclaim Spellborn client available for download

From Acclaim’s Community Manager, Historian, comes this news via Twitter: The Official Spellborn Download for Acclaim is up on our forums. … and when asked if those accepted into the beta test would know by checking their account status at the Acclaim site, or if there would be an email, replied: most likely checking your … Read more

Spellborn Developer Chat transcript, Part 1

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This is a transcript of the first half of the Acclaim Spellborn developer chat. The first half, as in, I typed until my fingers could type no more — and I was just halfway through. Even in the first half, though, many exciting topics come up.
In attendance were David Perry; Howard Marks, the CEO of Acclaim; Neal, the CTO of Acclaim, Aaron from marketing and communication; Historian, the Acclaim Community Manager; and El Drijver, the Spellborn lead designer, on the phone from the Netherlands.
Any transcription errors are mine and mine alone. If something seems wrong, it’s probably my fault, and I’m only typing this out for convenience; the original chat as an MP3 is hosted over at Historian’s site. In particular, I have no idea how to spell the player names, and I’m sure I confused David Perry and Historian more than once.
Topics include how Acclaim came to publish Spellborn, how Spellborn compares to other MMOs, the combat system, PvP, whether EU players and NA players can play on each other’s servers, and upcoming features such as the Arena, World PvP and the Marketplace.
All that and more (oh, my aching fingers!) — after the break.

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Out of work? Home sick? Wanna talk about Spellborn?

Breaking news! Acclaim CEO Howard Marks says Chronicles of Spellborn closed beta starts NEXT WEEK!

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I’d love to talk about Spellborn. I’ve been a big fan of it for a couple years now, wrote about it at every opportunity at Massively, even had the collector’s box set shipped from Germany and leveled up chars on the EU servers because I REALLY LOVE THIS GAME. Cue creepy “I’m your number one fan” music…
So when I heard Acclaim was going to have a chat about the NA version of Spellborn, part of me went YAY! Then I found out it was going to be at noon (PST). On a weekday. When I, and probably most likely players, would be at work. So. Bah. Epic fail.
I just want to play!
Acclaim’s announcement after the break. Complaints about the time can be brought to Acclaim’s “Acclaim Sucks?” room. (Oh, yes. Acclaim Community Manager ‘Historian’ saith: “Was inspired by user ret2121 who created 2 rooms ‘acclaim sucks’ and ‘Acclaim Sucks!!’. Seemed like a good way to get feedback.”)

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