Asheron's Call: The Adventure Begins

<body stylesrc="sharedpages/noframes_scheme.htm" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" background="images/backgrounds/backg_noframe.gif" bgcolor="#000000" text="#EDDC9A" link="#FFA746" vlink="#C0C0C0"> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="20%" valign="top"></td> <td width="80%"><p align="right"><big><em><strong>The Beta Test Form</strong></em></big></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" valign="top"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><nobr><a href="dereth.htm" target="_top"><img src="images/navigation/but_dereth.gif" name="Adventure" border="0" alt="The Adventure Begins Here!" 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Thank you for applying. The Sign-up is now closed.</strong><p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E6CB31" colspan="2" background="images/backgrounds/backhead_bluegrad.jpg"><font color="#FFFF80"><strong>March 25th, 1999</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%"></td> <td width="96%"><strong>More March Mayhem!</strong><p><strong>Beta Sign-up re-opened on March 26 for a very brief period.</strong></p> <p><strong>We've added information on <a href="dereth.htm" target="_top">Dereth</a> and <a href="features/index-social.htm" target="_top">Social Features</a>, such as <a href="dereth.htm" target="_top">Dereth's calendar</a>, a list of <a href="features/index-social.htm#Communication with Emotes" target="_top">character emotes</a>, and <a href="features/index-social.htm#Allegiance Titles" target="_top">allegiance titles</a> for the different heritage groups.</strong></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E6CB31" colspan="2" background="images/backgrounds/backhead_bluegrad.jpg"><font color="#FFFF80"><strong>March 15th, 1999</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%"></td> <td width="96%"><strong><font size="3">March Mayhem Continues!</font></strong><p><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/rpg/asheron/index.html" target="_top"><big><strong>Turbine Releases Exclusive Video of <em>Asheron's Call</em> to GAMESPOT!</strong></big></a></p> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E6CB31" colspan="2" background="images/backgrounds/backhead_bluegrad.jpg"><font color="#FFFF80"><strong>March 8th, 1999</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%"></td> <td width="96%"><strong><font size="3">March Mayhem Begins!</font></strong><p><font size="3">Microsoft reveals our Day/Night cycle</font> movie ( <a href="http://www.gameworlds.com/olthoi/AC-timelapse.mpg" target="_top">MPG(1.1mb)</a> or <a href="http://www.gameworlds.com/olthoi/AC-timelapse.avi" target="_top">.AVI (10mb)</a><font size="3"> ) in </font><a href="http://zone.msn.com/news/interv1.asp" target="_top"><font size="3">an interview with Toby Ragaini</font></a><font size="3">, Lead Designer for <strong><em>Asheron's Call</em></strong>.</font></p> <p><font size="3">Stay Tuned! In the next few days, we will be revealing the first <em><strong>Asheron's Call</strong></em> video featuring combat, spells, monsters and more!</font></p> <p><font size="3">We're hiring! We revamped our <a href="../corp/jobs.htm" target="_top">Jobs</a> page.</font></p> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </div><div align="left"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E6CB31" colspan="2" background="images/backgrounds/backhead_bluegrad.jpg"><font color="#FCFDC4"><strong>February 26th, 1999</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%"></td> <td width="96%"><font size="3">Turbine presents a sneak preview of <em><strong>Asheron's Cal</strong></em>l: March Mayhem! Check <a href="screenshots.htm" target="_top">here</a> for our first batch of <strong>hardware-accelerated</strong>, Direct3D screenshots, and our FIRST EVER video footage of <em><strong>Asheron's Call</strong></em> in action. Come back next week and onward -- there's more to come!</font><p><font size="3">As part of their Gamestock 99, Microsoft has released a new </font><font size="3"><a href="http://zone.msn.com/news/interv1.asp" target="_top">interview</a> with Toby Ragaini, <em><strong>Asheron's Call's</strong></em> lead designer. Check it out!</font></p> <p><font size="3">In other news, we have stopped taking applications for our beta test. But despair not, testers-to-be: we've collected thousands upon thousands of applications, and we'll be going through them all. 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