MMO Updates |
- Choose My Adventure: Approaching level 10 in The Elder Scrolls Online
- Heroes & Generals gets a huge update
- Defiance's Arktech Revolution DLC is live for PC and Xbox 360
- PAX East 2014: WildStar shows off Warplots at last
- The Daily Grind: Are you for or against data mining?
- Super Hero Squad Online commemorates its third birthday
- Infinite Crisis recruits Blue Beetle
- Jukebox Heroes: Talking to HEX Composer Michael Shapiro
- City of Steam patch optimizes and improves across the board
- The latest Swordsman trailer features three martial arts classes
- Lord of the Rings Online turns seven
- Star Wars: The Old Republic brings changes to second PvP season
- Massively Speaking Episode 293: H1Bree1
- PAX East 2014: Upsilon Circuit is an MMO like no other
- CCP is 'reviewing the status' of the World of Darkness IP
- Darkfall clarifies vision to get 'back on track'
- War Thunder's 1.39 update adds player-generated content and more
- Snail previews Age of Wushu's scheming eunuch Rootless Clan
| Choose My Adventure: Approaching level 10 in The Elder Scrolls Online Posted: 16 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Massively Meta, Hands-On, Choose My Adventure, The Elder Scrolls Online, Subscription As I make the approach to level 10, I realize that The Elder Scrolls Online is not "just another fantasy MMO" as it's sometimes billed by skeptical players. I'm continuously finding myself pleasantly surprised by the storyline, the crafting, and world, and the execution of it all. And even though I'm playing it as a single-player game still at this point, it's not a single-player Elder Scrolls game. I'm dying way too much for that. Continue reading Choose My Adventure: Approaching level 10 in The Elder Scrolls Online
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| Heroes & Generals gets a huge update Posted: 16 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Historical, Video, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, PvP, News Items, War, Free-to-Play, Browser  What's Heroes & Generals, you say? It's a nifty blend of massive online shooter and strategic persistent elements that gives you the ability to fight in the trenches, in the air, or as a campaign mastermind. If you'd like to know more about it, see our various hands-on articles, or just go to the game's website and play it for yourself. The latest update, codenamed Oster, adds plenty of new weapons, more campaign battlefields, improved weapon handling and avatar behavior, the ability to steal vehicles, and more. Click past the cut for the update vid. Continue reading Heroes & Generals gets a huge update
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| Defiance's Arktech Revolution DLC is live for PC and Xbox 360 Posted: 16 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Patches, News Items, PvE, Free-to-Play, Defiance  Trion's update page divides the DLC into free and paid feature lists, the former of which includes an EGO cap rating increase, EGO rating progression, new enemy difficulty tiers, expert co-op maps, and more. Paid features include a new titles, a new outfit, daily contracts, 15 new perks, and more. In addition to the release notes, the Defiance website also features an article by creative lead Trick Dempsey on the game's EGO changes.
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| PAX East 2014: WildStar shows off Warplots at last Posted: 16 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Trailers, Video, Game Mechanics, Previews, PvP, Endgame, WildStar, Subscription, Buy-to-Play  Welcome to Warplots. They're the game's answer to player-made fortresses and high-end battlegrounds all at once. More specificially, they're team-based 40 vs. 40 maps that drop you into a race to tear down your enemy. At either end sits the carefully constructed fortress held by each team, in the middle sit resource nodes, and both sides are pushed together to be the last side standing or the one putting a fortress back together post-battle. Want to know more? That's a good thing. Take a look at the typical WildStar trailer past the cut, and then let's talk details. Continue reading PAX East 2014: WildStar shows off Warplots at last
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| The Daily Grind: Are you for or against data mining? Posted: 16 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  Data mining is the act of combing through game files to find hints of upcoming content or to completely spoil current content in the game. Sometimes it's employed by sites to break NDAs and spill secrets that devs want kept until a later date. Sometimes it's used to grab maps or discover the existence of a new class in the making. There have been plenty of times that data mining efforts resulted in rather large spoilers that robbed the official reveals of their impact. So I'm curious: Are you for or against data mining? Is it too spoilery for you or do you appreciate the sleuthing efforts of dedicated fans?  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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| Super Hero Squad Online commemorates its third birthday Posted: 15 Apr 2014 08:00 PM PDT Filed under: Super-hero, Trailers, Video, Patches, News Items, Free-to-Play, Casual, Kids, Family, Anniversaries  The celebratory game additions and perks include new characters (Spider-Ham, Captain America Stealth, Falcon EXO-7, and Winter Solider), new world event heroes, hero sales, Facebook giveaways, a 20%-off sub sale through April, and a birthday card contest. Enjoy the festivities in the brand-new trailer below. [Source: Gazillion press release] Continue reading Super Hero Squad Online commemorates its third birthday
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| Infinite Crisis recruits Blue Beetle Posted: 15 Apr 2014 07:00 PM PDT Filed under: Super-hero, Video, Classes, Free-to-Play, MOBA, Infinite Crisis  Blue Beetle, aka Jamie Reyes, came across a blue scarab that wrapped him up in battle armor. The sentient armor and Jamie came to a mutual understanding to fight for whatever player was controlling them that session. Blue Beetle comes equipped with an energy cannon, a scarab scanner, a dash, and even an infiltrator mode. Bad guys get too close? Time for a little mandible taser, am I right? Turbine touts Blue Beetle as a highly mobile champion that can sneak up and smack down solo targets. Check out Blue Beetle in action after the jump. Continue reading Infinite Crisis recruits Blue Beetle
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| Jukebox Heroes: Talking to HEX Composer Michael Shapiro Posted: 15 Apr 2014 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Interviews, Trading Card Games, Jukebox Heroes, Music, HEX  Michael Gordon Shapiro: When I started my career I was only interested in film music. Game audio was just starting to emerge from the low-tech era, and there was a kind of stigma associated with it, much as there used to be with television music. As fate would have it, I was offered an in-house composer position at a game studio and was pleasantly surprised to find myself recording the same kind of live orchestral music that I loved doing for film. I also came to appreciate the high artistic effort going into both console and PC game scores. So from that point, the stigma dissolved in my mind and my artistic palette widened. Today I love doing both film and game music, for both overlapping and complementary reasons. Continue reading Jukebox Heroes: Talking to HEX Composer Michael Shapiro
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| City of Steam patch optimizes and improves across the board Posted: 15 Apr 2014 05:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, Free-to-Play, City of Steam, Steampunk  In patch 2.5, City of Steam has added tutorial quests, included more offerings in the in-game store, refined elements of the interface, and optimized the quest tracking system. There are also new challenges and heroic dungeons for high-level players as well as a team-up boss raid. Check out all of the changes, additions, and bug fixes in the patch notes.
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| The latest Swordsman trailer features three martial arts classes Posted: 15 Apr 2014 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Historical, Trailers, Video, Classes, News Items, Free-to-Play  Wu-Tang: These masters of Taoism combine inner force and physical strength to become superb group fighters. Swinging heavy two-handed blades with ease, masters of the Wu-Tang styles supplement their raw physical damage with effects that buff and heal themselves and their entire group.Enjoy the video below! Continue reading The latest Swordsman trailer features three martial arts classes
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| Lord of the Rings Online turns seven Posted: 15 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Events (In-Game), Free-to-Play, Anniversaries  Today marks the seventh anniversary for LotRO, and as such, Turbine is handing out presents. All players who log in today will get fireworks, with premium and VIP players receiving extra gifts. The new seven-year gifts include a new portrait frame, a shield-cloak, a loot box key, and a dancing emote for your monster play character. LotRO's in-game anniversary festival begins tomorrow, April 16th, and will continue through April 29th.
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| Star Wars: The Old Republic brings changes to second PvP season Posted: 15 Apr 2014 02:30 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, PvP, Free-to-Play, Star Wars: The Old Republic  A new dev blog posted today outlines the changes that Season 2 will bring. These include a shorter season length of three months, quicker rewards, slower rollouts of new gear sets, and daily and weekly PvP quests. The team is also going to hand out a unique reward to the top 96 PvP players. Season 2 will commence with Update 2.7.1.
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| Massively Speaking Episode 293: H1Bree1 Posted: 15 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Podcasts, MMO Industry, News Items, Massively Meta, Massively Speaking, Miscellaneous  Get all of our opinions and analysis on the most important stories of the past week right here on Massively Speaking, the industry's leading MMO podcast. And if you have a comment, question, or topic for the podcasters, send an email to podcast@massively.com. We may just read your email on the air! Get the podcast: [RSS] Add Massively Speaking to your RSS aggregator. [MP3] Download the MP3 directly. [iTunes] Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. [Stitcher] Follow the podcast on Stitcher Radio. Listen here on the page: Read below the cut for the full show notes. Continue reading Massively Speaking Episode 293: H1Bree1
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| PAX East 2014: Upsilon Circuit is an MMO like no other Posted: 15 Apr 2014 01:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Culture, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Free-to-Play  Upsilon Circuit is a new game currently in very early development from indie studio Robot Loves Kitty (of Legend of Dungeon fame), and when I say early, I do mean early. The animations are rough, the build is very much in a proof-of-concept stage rather than a fully playable state, and none of that matters. The game is the love child of Twitch Plays Pokémon, the Hunger Games, and Diablo III, a game that not only encourages streaming but demands it while interacting with the audience Continue reading PAX East 2014: Upsilon Circuit is an MMO like no other
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| CCP is 'reviewing the status' of the World of Darkness IP Posted: 15 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT Filed under: Horror, MMO Industry, World of Darkness, Sandbox, Sunsets  "We believe that the World of Darkness IP is very valuable and will be reviewing the status of it in the coming weeks and months, but we have no specific plans under consideration at this time," a CCP spokesperson said to CVG. In the search to understand why World of Darkness got shuttered, players might turn to last December's financials for CCP. In these, the studio lodged a loss of $21 million for the year despite increasing revenue year-over-year. This was mostly due to a "massively increased R&D budget" that was feeding into projects such as WoD.
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| Darkfall clarifies vision to get 'back on track' Posted: 15 Apr 2014 12:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Darkfall, Previews, PvP, Dev Diaries, Sandbox  "We are committed to our original vision of a politically and economically driven sandbox PvP MMO where risk dictates the reward, leading to meaningful massive battles," the studio posted. As such, Aventurine revealed that it will be introducing mix-and-match custom roles, rebalancing the economy, adding in siege engines, and conjuring a quest system to beef up the new player experience. On the way out are timed events and "the purpose of safe zones."
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| War Thunder's 1.39 update adds player-generated content and more Posted: 15 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Historical, Trailers, Video, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Patches, PvP, News Items, War, Free-to-Play, Player-Generated Content  What else is new in 1.39? How about PvP ladders, progression adjustments, and AI behavior tweaks? The devs have also enabled Ground Forces tank battling functionality on the main game server, although currently said functionality is limited to closed beta testers and special events. Finally, the War Thunder CDK enables creative players to build missions, locations, and even unique planes, according to the 1.39 teaser trailer. Click past the cut to watch it! Continue reading War Thunder's 1.39 update adds player-generated content and more
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| Snail previews Age of Wushu's scheming eunuch Rootless Clan Posted: 15 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Classes, Expansions, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, PvP, News Items, Free-to-Play, Sandbox, Age of Wushu  The AoW website features more info about the archetype's skills and abilities as well as a teaser video. Or you could just click past the cut to watch the latter. Hey, don't say Massively never did anything for you! Continue reading Snail previews Age of Wushu's scheming eunuch Rootless Clan
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