<![CDATA[Kotaku: Flying Lab]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Flying Lab]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/flying lab http://kotaku.com/tag/flying lab <![CDATA[PotBS Avatar Combat Updated For The New Year]]> Flying Lab's MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea sails into the new year with the release of the highly anticipated build 1.11: The Clash Of Steel, which completely revamps avatar combat. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5121548&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Return To The Burning Sea For Free]]> Flying Lab have been hard at work tweaking their seafaring MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea since launch, and they're inviting old captains back to see if the modified pirate life is for them. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5108493&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pirates Of The Burning Sea Offers Free Trials]]> The world's best pirate-themed MMO is looking for new recruits to sail the salty Caribbean in search of booty, glory, adventure, and...more booty, possibly. To this end they've launched a free 14-day trial open to all wannabe pirates and privateers who have yet to take part in the seafaring activities. Simply hit up the link below, enter your email address to verify that you are indeed a real person, and then prepare to download a metric ass-ton of files before you get command of your very first ship. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5057449&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Pirate Classes In PotBS]]> Up until now, pirates in Flying Lab's MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea have gotten the short end of the stick. While the different nations had a choice of career paths, pirates were pirates, which works fine in PVE but in group PVP it led to an imbalance...everyone knows what they're up against when they're fighting pirates. Well not anymore. The upcoming 1.4 patch of the game is introducing two new pirate classes, separate factions in the Brethren of the Coast. Existing pirates will be become Cutthroats, the more brutal type of pirates, while players creating new characters can opt between that or the new Buccaneer class.
Buccaneers are pirates too, but a bit subtler than their burning-bearded brethren. They steal and loot, but also manipulate the black markets. Some would call them gentleman adventurers, though few are true blue bloods. Buccaneers do not have the raw power of cutthroats, but they work well in groups and can help friends and cripple enemies.
Bah. Either way they're still pirates, and one ninja could easily take either out. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=389859&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Get Level 5 In PotBS Stress Test, Get In Beta]]> Here's some cool news for fans of all things piratey! If you head over to FilePlanet right now you can join the Pirates of the Burning Sea stress test weekend! It is open to all, and Flying Lab has announced that everyone who gets to level 5 in the stress test gets a spot in the real beta for the game! The catch? The stress test is a 4.57GB download, and it ends tomorrow. Could we have gotten you this news faster? Possibly, but we were busy listening to the Portal song over and over again while petting our cat in one of those rare moments when he isn't trying to eat our hands. Enough reading, there's no time to lose! Hit the link below to join the stress test, and then sleep and hope to god your bandwidth is strong enough to make it! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=324075&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PotBS Pre-Orders Moved To November 13th]]> "What happened to the October 23rd Pirates of the Burning Sea preorder start" you ask? Weird, I was just writing up a story about that. Turns out that the death of Gods and Heroes had a profound effect on the distribution of the Pirates preorder boxes, as Sony Online Entertainment dealt with refunding those who had gone ahead and preordered the promising looking mythological MMO. There was a news post over at the official PotBS site which doesn't mention the Gods and Heroes issue, though if you hit the link to the forums below you'll get the full story, as well as several tracks from the game's soundtrack offered as a sorry for the delay from Flying Lab. Pirates of the Burning Sea preorder boxes should be in stores November 13th, containing all of the parroty goodness promised. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=320099&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Big PotBS Happenings On Talk Like A Pirate Day]]>
Here's the E3 trailer for Pirates of the Burning Sea, the seafaring MMO from Flying Lab that recently announced a publishing deal with Sony Online Entertainment. While I didn't learn much we haven't already reported on the game at the show, I was told by two separate members of the dev team to keep an eye out for September 19th, better known as Talk Like A Pirate Day. Not the release date apparently, but something big, with extra emphasis on big. My money's on a large-scale raid of Cuba. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=278825&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SOE Sails The Burning Seas To E3]]> We told you about the Flying Lab Software agreement with SOE first last night, and now Sony Online Entertainment finally catches up with some hot press release action, including word that Pirates of the Burning Sea will be presented at E307 as part of SOE's lineup. The star of SOE's lineup I'd daresay. SOE VP of Business Development David Christensen mildly downplays. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=272401&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pirates of the Burning Sea Signs With SOE]]> Direct from the Pirates of the Burning Sea web site, Flying Lab Software has announced a publishing partnership for their giant online pirate party with none other than Sony Online Entertainment of Everquest, Planetside, and....Vanguard fame. More »
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