Pirates of the Burning Sea gets date

Flying Lab’s MMOG has been given a release date: 22^nd January 2008.

If you’re really eager though it’s possible to grab the game a couple of days early by pre-ordering.

Any obliging gamers will be treated to some exclusive in-game weapons, an in-game parrot (rather than a real one, which would be nice), and a soundtrack CD.

USA residents can grab the game come 23^rd October, if you’re elsewhere then you’ll have to wait for another announcement to find out when you can begin legitimately talking like a pirate.

The swashbuckling MMOG has been in development for a while, since 2002 in fact, and beta testing has been apparently running since 2005. Flying Labs are calling it a “big fat slab of a game”, which sounds pretty good we’d say.

Play will incorporate economy, ship-on-ship action, swordfighting, roughly 1000 quests, 80 towns in a world available for conquering, pillaging, plundering other such naughty nautical notions.

There will be a much more public beta a little nearer the launch date.

If you’re after more info then take a look around our hub, we’ve got more news, screenshots, videos, a preview and wil have an official guide on the day of release.