Ubisoft to Publish Puzzle Pirates

Ubisoft announced this morning that they have come to an agreement with 3 Rings Design to publish Puzzle Pirates in retail stores. This exciting news couldn't come for a better game, winner of the IGF 2004 Technical Excellence and Audience Awards for Online games. From the Puzzle Pirates site: "Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is an online game in which you play a Pirate character in an ocean world. Hundreds of your fellow player Pirates swarm these Isles and Sea-lanes. For Pirates who love acronyms, Puzzle Pirates is an massively multi-player online roleplaying game, or mmoarrrrpg." Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is available for Demo on PC/Mac/Linux.

Yes, but...

[rufo]

...will it be published on September 19th [talklikeapirate.com]?

Age groups

[dsginter]

The game is rated "Arrrr!" for pirates.

Re:I wonder...

[grub]

Like these? [mcfilmfest.com]

Puzzle Ninjas is better

[nicholasharbour]

because ninjas are better. simple fact. ninjas are cutting off heads while pirates a trying to find buried treasure. its a simple choice, if you ask me.

I put on my robe and wizard hat

[Tackhead]

> For Pirates who love acronyms, Puzzle Pirates is an massively multi-player online roleplaying game, or mmoarrrrpg."

Fresh on the heels of the Wired [wired.com] sex columnist who recommends MMORPGs as the place to cyber, we now have a pirate-themed MMORPG.

sweet17: What do you need me to do?

Bloodninja: I need you talk like a pirate.
sweet17: ???
Bloodninja: When I start to go limp... you say "HARRRR!!!"
Bloodninja: ok?
Bloodninja: Hello?
sweet17: You can't be serious
Bloodninja: Oh yes I am!

I guess it's time to put on my robe and wizard hat and, umm... HARRRRRRRRRR! [sreality.org]

In other News...

[Tezkah]

In other news EA has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement [itsatrap.net] with the American Pirate Association [talklikeapirate.com]. The deal, reportadly worth $5 billion US, gives EA a monopoly over Pirate Related games for a period of 250 years.

James Blackbeard, president of the APA declined to say which deserted island he would deposit the booty at.

It is not clear how this deal affects software pirates.

Re:10 dollars a month

[Anonymous Coward]

At least at a bar, you don't need to associate with a bunch of MMORPG nerds :P

Re:Multi-platform, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

But it doesn't have multi-shadered texture-pixel-pooping shadows!!!oneelevenone!!!

Ohwait, it's actual fun ? Damn ;)

Re:Puzzle Ninjas is better

[TheSpoom]

/me kicks parent in the face with his pegleg

Arr, ye wish to say that again there, sonny Jim?

Re:Great Game

[Rei]

Is there any competitiveness? I mean, the whole point of being a pirate is learning insults so that you'll be good in a swordfight.

"You fight like a dairy farmer!"
"How appropriate. You fight like a cow."

Re:Age groups

[Rev Wally]

Don't you mean "Arrr! TFA"

Older Community?

[ppp]

Agreed. Honestly, it's the best community I've ever seen in an MMORPG (mostly because it seems to be a bit of an older one, attracting both men and women in their mid-20s).

Now I feel REALLY old.