LawBreakers: First Beta Event Takes Place This Weekend Posted: 18 Jun 2016 03:31 AM PDT Cliff Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions is hosting the first LawBreakers alpha weekend for its first title. The event will take place today and tomorrow for approximately 12 hours each day. This is the first in the series of alpha events that will take place throughout the summer that will eventually lead to the Early Access phase on Steam later in 2016. |
Riders of Icarus: Welcome to Riders of Icarus - SPONSORED Posted: 16 Jun 2016 10:51 AM PDT You'll travel throughout the lands in search of powerful and majestic beasts to aid in a war against evil. Tame and train your mounts to help you overcome impossible challenges, and use them for more than just travel. Grab the reins as you master mounted ground and aerial combat to purge the skies and everything under them of all vile and wicked foes. The ride of your life awaits in Riders of Icarus! |
WildStar: Making the Game More Alt-Friendly Posted: 18 Jun 2016 06:35 AM PDT After the recent WildStar DevConnect, the team took away one particular area where players would like to see more improvement: Growing alts. As a result, Carbine is hoping to make WildStar become more alt-friendly through a number of changes coming to account-wide systems. |
Black Desert Online: Latest Patch Interview & Player Discontent Posted: 18 Jun 2016 03:25 AM PDT The Daum team has a short interview on the official Black Desert Online forums to reveal some background information about why certain changes were implemented in the latest update. Topics include processing, changes in the Ghillie suit, class balance changes coming in the future and skill resets. |
General: Twitch Gets Real - Legal Action Filed Against Bot Makers Posted: 16 Jun 2016 06:05 PM PDT The Twitch blog has been updated with a significant post that reveals a new legal action filed by the company against seven of the most active viewbot services sellers. This is the third layer of protection the company is putting in place to stop broadcasters from overinflating view statistics, follower counts and chat activity on Twitch. |
Rift: Level 40 Boost Gift Key Giveaway! Posted: 17 Jun 2016 04:44 PM PDT MMORPG.com has been given exclusive gift keys for RIFT that will instantly level a player to 40 as well as give you all kinds of cool free items! Get your key now and get in the game! |
PlanetSide: Daybreak Pulling the Plug Posted: 17 Jun 2016 04:46 PM PDT Daybreak Games Company has announced that it is pulling the plug on PlanetSide. The server will be shutting down on July 1st at 4:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 pm Eastern. According to the team the closure is "due to evolving business needs and technical requirements". All present and former players are invited to give the game the send off it deserves in the coming weeks. |
Overwatch: 007 & the Golden Gun - Competitive Play Detailed Posted: 17 Jun 2016 04:20 PM PDT Jeff Kaplan stars in the latest Developer Update that goes into a bit more detail about the upcoming competitive mode. |
Blade & Soul: Soulfighter Incoming & Much More in the Future Posted: 17 Jun 2016 12:26 PM PDT Since launch, Blade and Soul has maintained a steady cadence of updates and classes to play, and next week NCsoft will be launching the soul fighter. Available to the Jin, Gon, and Yun races, this hybrid blends the martial styles of the force master and kung fu master to create a flexible class capable of dishing out pain at both range and in melee. |
General: State of Decay 2: Talking with Undead Labs Founder Jeff Strain Posted: 17 Jun 2016 09:52 AM PDT One of the more pleasant surprises coming out of Microsoft's E3 conference was the reveal of State of Decay 2. For those who fondly remember those days of Xbox Live Arcade, before DayZ, H1Z1, and the dozens of others beat that zombified horse, State of Decay was one of the more unique takes on post-apocalyptic survival. And now Undead Labs is returning to take that great concept and do it right. I caught up with the founder of Undead Labs, Jeff Strain, to talk more about State of Decay 2. |
General: The New MMORPG.com Arrives Next Week Posted: 15 Jun 2016 07:30 PM PDT The time has finally come. Our brand new site design is almost ready to go live. This coming Tuesday, June 21st, MMORPG.com will be down for maintenance for an estimated 24 hours as we bring over the new site and migrate all the data from the old one. Read on for what it all means for you, our loyal readers. |
General: The RPG News of E3 2016 Posted: 16 Jun 2016 02:26 PM PDT Another E3 has come and gone and with it another tidal wave of gaming news. This week in the RPG Files, we're looking at all of the roleplaying news that's fit to print. Read on to see just what this year's biggest presser had for RPG fans! |