MMO Updates |
- Captain's Log: Star Trek Online's Season Eight Preview
- Hands-on with EQ Next Landmark: Building my castle of dreams
- EverQuest Next Landmark Founders Packs, alpha announced
- Gloria Victis updates animation tech, hires famous writers
- Video previews Wednesday's Path of Exile update 1.0.1
- Turn-based League of Angels plans closed beta for late 2013
- The Stream Team: Celebrating vets edition, November 11 - 17, 2013
- Trion Worlds registers Trove domains
- The Daily Grind: What's the weirdest MMO you've played?
- BlizzCon 2013 in photographs
- MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2013 roundup
- EVE Evolved: Ghost Sites and PvE goals
- Valve responds to fan outrage at Dota 2's missing Diretide
- WildStar's livestream serves up a big helping of Warrior fun
- TUG begins building networking and third-person models
| Captain's Log: Star Trek Online's Season Eight Preview Posted: 11 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, Patches, Opinion, Star Trek Online, Free-to-Play, Captain's Log  You can also catch a quick glimpse of Season Eight's material by watching the official Season Eight trailer that Massively revealed last week. As you can imagine, this column will be chock-full of spoilers! Continue reading Captain's Log: Star Trek Online's Season Eight Preview
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| Hands-on with EQ Next Landmark: Building my castle of dreams Posted: 11 Nov 2013 08:15 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Game Mechanics, Interviews, New Titles, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Hands-On, First Impressions, EverQuest Next, Player-Generated Content  When presented with the opportunity to get my hands on EverQuest Next Landmark and build something for myself, I leaped at the chance. Who hasn't been sitting back, eagerly awaiting the moment he could dive into the wilds of Landmark and let his creativity run rampant? As one half of the Some Assembly Required team, I knew it would be no great sacrifice to try out this upcoming beacon of player-generated-content. And man, was it worth it! I met with EverQuest Franchise Director Dave Georgeson to talk shop and check out Landmark's tools in my own personal hands-on pre-alpha experience. Instead of just gazing longingly at a screen while watching a demonstration, I got to test drive all the various building tools as I obsessively constructed my own amethyst castle. The only real problem I ran into was that my time ended all too soon, and now I must wait until February for the alpha to play again. So is it better to have built and lost than never to have built at all? I may have to get back to you on that when -- and if -- my withdrawals subside. Until then, here's the scoop on my experience along with a new video and some juicy tidbits of new info straight from Georgeson himself. Continue reading Hands-on with EQ Next Landmark: Building my castle of dreams
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| EverQuest Next Landmark Founders Packs, alpha announced Posted: 11 Nov 2013 08:05 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play, Promotions, EverQuest Next, Sandbox, Player-Generated Content  Players who want to get in on Landmark's alpha, which will launch on or before February 28th, 2014, can get access by purchasing the Explorer Pack for $59.99 or the Trailblazer Pack for $99.99 (with Trailblazers getting a headstart). Players who can hold off their building desires can buy the Settler Pack instead for $19.99 and get access to the first wave of beta testing that commences on or before March 31st, 2014. Each pack offers various other in-game perks such as titles, tools, storage pockets, and vaults. For a full list of all the goodies in each tier, check out the image below. And to learn more about EQN Landmark, read up on our our hands-on experience. Continue reading EverQuest Next Landmark Founders Packs, alpha announced
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| Gloria Victis updates animation tech, hires famous writers Posted: 11 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, MMO Industry, New Titles, Patches  Jacek Komuda and Maciej Jurewicz have both worked on The Witcher and Bulletstorm, as well as dozens of other published works. Their "gritty, bloody, dark" style will show through in the game's storyline and the team at Black Eye Games hopes to show off a few lines for fans soon. [Source: Black Eye Games press release]
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| Video previews Wednesday's Path of Exile update 1.0.1 Posted: 11 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Video, New Titles, Patches, News Items, Free-to-Play, Path of Exile  Descent Champions, like Descent, is a special scenario separate from the storyline filled with challenging monsters. Unlike its predecessor, however, this version sports a choice in forks in the progression and a selection of unique items to pick from at the start the event. Purity has been changed so that it doesn't alter players' maximum resistances; instead players can utilize the new player purity aura gems for fire, ice, and lightning. You can get more details on all these changes (plus a spoiler for one of the five new uniques coming!) in the update video below. Continue reading Video previews Wednesday's Path of Exile update 1.0.1
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| Turn-based League of Angels plans closed beta for late 2013 Posted: 11 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, New Titles, Free-to-Play, Browser  studio GTArcade announced. The title revolves around a group of angels fighting darkness and clothing (if the artwork is any indication). Players will guide a party of heroes with an angel at its core, and engage in turn-based combat in single-player and multi-player dungeons, as well as cross-server battles. A couple of interesting features include a rogue-like random dungeon mode and several mini-games (such as match-three) that will reward the player with extra goods. [Source: GTArcade press release]
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| The Stream Team: Celebrating vets edition, November 11 - 17, 2013 Posted: 11 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST Filed under: Polls, MMO Industry, Massively Meta, Livestream, Miscellaneous, The Stream Team  Today, Massively TV recognizes vet in a different context, honoring those who preserve our freedoms through their service in the various armed forces. Because of their sacrifices, we can do the things we enjoy, even things like diving into our favorite games and hanging out watching The Stream Team. So a big thanks to veterans everywhere, and may we all remember them in our thoughts as we partake in those freedoms we have. Continue reading The Stream Team: Celebrating vets edition, November 11 - 17, 2013
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| Trion Worlds registers Trove domains Posted: 11 Nov 2013 05:30 AM PST Filed under: MMO Industry, New Titles, Miscellaneous  TroveGame.com and PlayTrove.com are but two of the many domains secured by CEO Scott Hartsman as of late. There are also several regional domains in the list, including those for Germany, Canada, and the UK. As of the writing of this post, none of the domains link to a working website. Could this be a new title from Trion or an expansion to one of its other games? Whatever the case may be, we'll be keeping a close eye on this situation. [Thanks to WNxArcticwolf for the tip!]
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| The Daily Grind: What's the weirdest MMO you've played? Posted: 11 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Real-Life, MMO Industry, PvE, Opinion, Buy-to-Play  The title's main draw is the vehicles, though, and while some of the driving mechanics leave a lot to be desired, the models themselves are impressive. I particularly enjoy the virtual cockpits and the ability to raise and lower windows, etc. Anyway, that's my weird MMO story of the day. What's yours? What's the weirdest MMO you've played?  Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
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| Posted: 10 Nov 2013 08:00 PM PST Filed under: World of Warcraft, Galleries, Screenshots, Culture, Events (Real-World), MMO Industry, Massively Meta, Humor, Events (Massively's Coverage), Miscellaneous, Diablo III, Hearthstone   Massively's on the ground in Anaheim during the weekend of November 8th, bringing you all the best news from BlizzCon 2013. Whether you're anticipating World of Warcraft's and Diablo III's next expansions or reveals from Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, we aim to have it covered!
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| MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2013 roundup Posted: 10 Nov 2013 05:00 PM PST Filed under: World of Warcraft, Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous  Massively may skew toward ex-World of Warcraft players, but whether you're a hater or a veteran, your gamer eyes were undoubtedly glued to BlizzCon this weekend. Blizzard announced a new expansion for World of Warcraft, complete with time-traveling orcs, housing, and nostalgia for expansions past; we also got our hands on new MOBA Heroes of the Storm and stole a few glances at Hearthstone and Diablo III, with plenty more to come this week as we unpack the con. In the meantime, we've rounded up all the best of Massively's and WoW Insider's BlizzCon coverage for you, so read on! Continue reading MMO Week in Review: BlizzCon 2013 roundup
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| EVE Evolved: Ghost Sites and PvE goals Posted: 10 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Economy, Expansions, Game Mechanics, Patches, Endgame, PvE, Opinion, EVE Evolved, Dev Diaries, Sandbox, Subscription  Completing a mission will earn you some ISK and a few hundred or thousand loyalty points, but most of the ISK in mission-running comes from the bounties on the NPCs spawned in the mission sites. Similar deadspace sites with better loot are also distributed randomly throughout the galaxy and can be tracked down using scanner probes. But what would happen if the NPCs in these sites were a dangerous and unexpected interference that could get you killed, rather than space piñatas ready to explode in a shower of ISK? This is a question CCP plans to test with the Rubicon expansion's upcoming Ghost Sites feature, which promises to introduce a whole new form of high-risk, high-reward PvE. In this week's EVE Evolved, I look at EVE's upcoming ghost sites and explain why I think its goal-oriented approach to PvE should be adopted in other areas of the game. Continue reading EVE Evolved: Ghost Sites and PvE goals
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| Valve responds to fan outrage at Dota 2's missing Diretide Posted: 10 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Culture, News Items, MOBA  In short: The team was working on a major update that was meant to be ready around Halloween, so the assumption was that it would be easier just to launch that. Then it got delayed, and there was no time to stop working on that and start working on Diretide. Once the time came and the event was still missing, what happened was more or less a matter of figuring out how to fix it rather than simply stating that the company was aware. It looks as if the game's next update will contain a somewhat belated Diretide, which may not fix the problem but will at least help ameliorate lingering hurt feelings.
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| WildStar's livestream serves up a big helping of Warrior fun Posted: 10 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Video, Classes, Game Mechanics, Previews, News Items, WildStar, Subscription, Buy-to-Play  For starters, this build has a chance to show off both the new ability enhancement and AMP systems, replacements to the original Milestone setup (although the interface for both is still obviously in beta stages). The Warrior also gets to demonstrate some of the new elements of the UI, like telegraphs serving as cast bars, allowing you to know just when dodging out will be absolutely vital. No need to take our word for it, though; check out the full video just past the break! Continue reading WildStar's livestream serves up a big helping of Warrior fun
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| TUG begins building networking and third-person models Posted: 10 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Game Mechanics, Previews, News Items  The game's networking is also in place, but at the moment it's only a bare-bones implementation; players can host servers but no central server architecture yet exists. The update warns that it's also largely untested, since that is part of what the testing environment exists to facilitate. There's also new biomes, new crafting, and physics -- a far cry from the initial exploration demo. It's still small, but every update makes the game just a little bigger.
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