You've actually heard of Rift: Planes of Telara before, it was just called of-telara-shows-some-early-promise-serverside-135004.phtml">Heroes of Telara at the time. The game, which is a fantasy MMO, is being developed by Trion Worlds. They're taking a different approach to the whole MMO thing by having all the game's content and updates handled on servers (cloud computing) while graphics and sound are handled by the player's equipment.

This means that the game world can be updated with minor or large details or events at any time without everyone having to get an update. That plays right into the rift part of the name of the game. Trion has explained that the world of Telara is being torn apart by rifts that cause changes to the world from entire areas being unlocked to unique instances of monsters attacking.

I'm not an MMO player, but having a world that can change easily on the fly sounds awesome. We'll just have to wait and see until 2011 when the game is scheduled to land on PC.

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Disemvowel

Whoa, for a minute, I thought they were making an MMO out of Rifts tabletop.

Oishidesu

Unrelated to topic, what is the Super Street Fighter 4 secret if you still have the original Street Fighter 4?

manasteel88

@oishidesu
that is totally unrelated...

i believe its the special color schemes 11 and 12.

Niero Gonzalez

Thedudemjp

Roager

Not being an MMO fan, this doesn't mean a whole lot to me. The idea of a cloud-based world, though. I approve. Heavily.

Oishidesu

@manasteel88
Just colors 11 and 12? Nothing else? No extra levels or anything? Well that's lame!! I'll just get MvC3 next year instead of SSFIV.

Electrium

I knew it was an MMO from the text alone. Why does every single MMO ever made have to use the same typography formula?


MMO NAME IN JAGGED LETTERS
[ Subtitle in Weird Box ]


-Only one color is allowed
-Title text must have random and strange serifs
-Subtitle text must be in small caps

ilmagg

Game is in it's final beta now but there are many sites like http://www.telarapedia.com or http://www.riftplanesoftelaraguide.com are are somewhat sticking to the longer game name.