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May

MMOGaming News

MMOGaming News

Champion Spotlight: Braum, the Heart of the Freljord

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Champion Spotlight: Braum, the Heart of the Freljord


Braum's a tanky defender able to deflect both enemy attention and damage away from his teammates. During laning, dish out Concussive Blows to your enemies before letting your marksman trigger your passive's stun, or, when you ally starts taking damage, quickly reposition with Stand Behind Me before using Unbreakable to save them from further harm. As the enemy team starts gathering, smash through their defenses with Glacial Fissure's huge shockwave before slowing fleeing stragglers with Winter's Bite.

Warframe: Storm Files - S2/Ep.17 "Specters and Making Enemies"

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Warframe: Storm Files - S2/Ep.17


This week is a slow week in warframe. We did have a cool Sound Team live stream. And we had changes to cost of specters and helmuts with stats. I entered a contest submission for the make a Warframe enemy contest I think it came out excellent.

Black Desert Large Scale Battle/Ranger Gameplay Preview

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Black Desert Large Scale Battle/Ranger Gameplay Preview


Black Desert is definitely the right game for PVP lovers, citadel, canons, castles has an important function in black deserts large scale battles.Its hard to imagine the large scale pvp on a low spec PC,which might force players to lower the details.

WoW: Frostfire Ridge Gameplay!

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WoW: Frostfire Ridge Gameplay!


Frostfire Ridge is one of the new zones in Warlords of Draenor where you'll be heading on your leveling journey to 100. The zone is located in north-western Draenor and it's home to the Frostwolf clan and the Thunderlord clan. The Horde capital, Bladespire Citadel is located here. Frostfire Ridge is the starting zone for Horde characters in Draenor. Its Alliance counterpart is Shadowmoon Valley.

DotA 2 - The Newest Compendium of Activites and Rewards, Holy moley

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DotA 2 - The Newest Compendium of Activites and Rewards, Holy moley


Today I want to share about DotA 2's newest Compendium for The Internationals championship tournament. Because of the amount of stuff there is in this Compendium I felt compelled to write something and share it with you even if you are or aren't a DotA 2 player.

Rift The Life : Ep.16 "Farming for them Souls"

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Rift The Life : Ep.16


Yea..so I logged on and was like I'm going to buy me some souls...Hmm 5000 credits wow and the wife is annoyed at me already for game spending. Looks like I'll be farming this one out. So with that said which soul do you guys like the most? Even though I am a cleric user. I think I'm going to go with Liberator. I know that may bring a few gasp. Like wow really a warrior soul? But I think this one is the most well designed skill wise. Not that the others are bad. And what do you guys think about the price of the souls? I'm a little uncomfortable with souls, almost being equal to the cost of full games.

Icarus Online Armor Sets / New Gameplay/ Update Preview

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Icarus Online Armor Sets / New Gameplay/ Update Preview


Icarus is a Next Gen Cry engine 3d mmorpg,which accent is on a Dragons. Mmositers had the chance to see some details about the game before, today I will present you the new costumes/armor and gameplay of the Upcoming mmorpg.

Follow-up to Smash Hit Co-op Sci-Fi Horror Shooter Set to Return

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Follow-up to Smash Hit Co-op Sci-Fi Horror Shooter Set to Return


Tripwire Interactive is pleased to announce that Killing Floor 2, the follow-up to 2009's multi-million unit selling Sci-Fi Horror, First Person Shooter game Killing Floor 2, is currently in development for PC and SteamOS. After months of speculation and rumors around Killing Floor 2 2, the good folks at Tripwire are thrilled to treat fans to an in-depth first look at the moment to moment combat experience that awaits them in the next phase of the "Horzine Outbreak" at the game's official website.

Diablo: Legendary Roll Chances Datamined

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Diablo: Legendary Roll Chances Datamined


Ever been interested in finding out how Diablo's RNG works? It seems that D3's RNG has two stages of action.The game decides whether to award you with a Legendary each time you kill a foe, open a loot container, destroy an object or gamble with Kadala.

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MMORPG Reviews

MMORPG Reviews

Closed Beta Key Giveaway for Doom Warrior

Posted: 12 May 2014 01:12 AM PDT

In collaboration with publisher Creaky Corpse, FreeMMORPGlist.com and MMOReviews.com, are having a huge giveaway with a total of 5,000 codes that grant players with exclusive closed beta access to Doom Warrior. Doom Warrior is an action-based arena MMORPG that puts players into the shoes of warriors forced to fight in the arena and enables them […]

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Dragon’s Wrath: Launch Date Announced

Posted: 12 May 2014 12:53 AM PDT

NGames has just communicated that the official launch of their horizontal, combat-based browser MMORPG Dragon’s Wrath as a free-to-play title is scheduled for June. Dragon’s Wrath promises amazing, state-of-the-art browser graphics and fluid combat systems for players to engage in thrilling PvE and PvP including challenging world bosses, unique instances and arenas, siege wars, guild […]

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11
May

General Gaming Article

General Gaming Article

A New Haswell-powered Tablet Likely at May 20 Surface Event

Posted: 11 May 2014 06:35 PM PDT

Microsoft Surface Pro

Will reportedly be based on a new power-efficient Haswell part

Ever since Microsoft sent out press invites for a Surface-related event  scheduled for May 20, 2014, in New York, the tech media has been busy speculating about the event's agenda. Many in the tech commentariat expect the long-rumored "Surface Mini" to finally step into the realm of reality to take center stage at the upcoming event. But with the hitherto fabled Microsoft tablet widely rumored to pack an ARM-based SoC from Qualcomm, the question is: What about Intel?

Intel won't be left behind, according to CNET. An unnamed chip industry source told the site that Microsoft will also unveil an Intel-powered Surface tablet, with the possibility of the members of the press attending the event even going home with the tablet.

"There's definitely a new Intel-based Surface," the anonymous source told the tech site. "From what I can assess so far I think it's going to [have] a new power-optimized Haswell variant."

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Opera 21 Released with ‘Aura’ Browser-wide Hardware Acceleration Tech

Posted: 11 May 2014 05:07 PM PDT

Opera 21

Browser vendor says Aura enables a better, more responsive experience

Norwegian browser vendor Opera Software on Thursday released Opera 21 for Windows and Mac. Opera 21, the seventh iteration of the browser since it ditched the Presto browser engine in favor of the Chromium project, is the first stable build to pack the Aura hardware-accelerated graphics engine.

First introduced in Chrome OS in 2012,  the Aura hardware-accelerated graphics engine, as Opera pointed out in a  blog post Thursday, makes it possible to "hardware-accelerate the entire browser, including the user interface." However, Aura is only limited to the Windows version of Opera, with the Mac version relying instead on Apple's Core Animation technology for its hardware accelerated mojo.

"The team here put a lot of effort into getting Aura to work properly with Opera and the benefits are already paying off. Aura allows for smoother, snappier animations with a more responsive feel," Opera said. "So far, we have only scratched the surface of this technology, and Opera 21's primary intention was to get Aura working and stable. In the future, you will see further benefits as it allows us to give everything that little extra bit of polish!"

Another change that merits a mention here is the option to force Opera to show a page's full URL. Although the company still considers the simplified URL field to be the "best option" for most users, it has added a "Show Always Full URL in Address Field" option under advanced settings with a view to appeasing advanced users.

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Worldwide PC Shipments Rose Five Percent in Q1, Says Canalys

Posted: 11 May 2014 02:58 PM PDT

PC shipments up five percent

Apple remains largest vendor despite 'sharpest ever' decline in iPad shipments

Global PC shipments rose 5 percent year on year to reach 123.7 million units in the first quarter of 2014, according to the latest shipments data published by research firm Canalys. Roughly 41 percent of those shipments belonged to the tablet category and about 38 percent to the species notebook, with desktops making up the rest.

Where the non-tablet PC segment is concerned, a notable trend Canalys identified during the quarter was that the Windows XP "supportocalypse" helped arrest the decline in notebook shipments somewhat, limiting it to 7 percent. This factor also helped desktop shipments remain flat year on year.

The quarter was particularly good for Lenovo as it managed to raise its PC market share from 10 percent to 12 percent, shipping around 15 million units worldwide. "It achieved solid annual growth in all PC categories and is now placed first, second and third in the notebook, desktop and tablet markets respectively." said Canalys in a press release.

EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), per Canalys analyst James Wang, was the region where most of that growth came from, with the Chinese vendor managing an impressive 61-percent year-on-year growth in shipments there.

"'Lenovo was quick to move with new form factors and its Yoga line now dominates the global convertible notebook market,"Wang said. "In addition, it has diversified its tablet portfolio and has product SKUs in all key market segments. Unlike Apple, with its 'one size fits all' tablet strategy, Lenovo and others are free to tailor tablets to specific market segments. The tablet form factor is well liked by both young and old consumers; product customization can be beneficial in both cases."

Apple, meanwhile, experienced a precipitous decline in iPad shipments. Dubbing it the "sharpest ever", analyst Tim Coulling said the decline in iPad shipments was on account of Apple trying "to run down its iPad inventory, a smart move as tablet stock in the channel rose due to strong seasonal shipments in the previous quarter."

"Longer term, we do not believe Apple's Q1 performance points to a decline in the tablet category, despite growing pressure from larger-screen smart phones. Consumers, and increasingly businesses, are continuing to adapt, with tablets acting as disruptors and finding their place as desktop and notebook replacements. Apple's ecosystem and the recent launch of Office for iPad should ensure it is well placed to remain a leader for some time," Couling said.

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MMO Updates

MMO Updates

WoW Archivist: Tier 0.5 and the birth of modern dungeons

Posted: 11 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Game Mechanics, PvE, Dungeons, WoW Archivist

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WoW Archivist is a biweekly column by WoW Insider's Scott Andrews, who explores the secrets of World of Warcraft's past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW's history? What secrets does the game still hold? It first appeared on our sister site on May 9th and is included here by permission.

For a long time in classic WoW, non-raiders felt neglected. Dungeons were the only endgame PvE option for non-raiders. Back then, dungeons didn't have a five-player limit. They could be "raided," even though they weren't considered raids. Blizzard added new raiding content on a regular basis, but the developers didn't release new dungeons after adding Dire Maul in patch 1.3, four months after the game's release. Until the launch of The Burning Crusade in early 2007, non-raiders ran the same dungeons for almost two years.

Amidst a storm of complaints, Blizzard said it wanted to offer additional content for non-raiders. In patch 1.10, Blizzard delivered a new endgame quest line using existing dungeons. Composed of 29 steps in all, this was one of the game's most elaborate -- and most punishing -- quest lines ever. Blizzard called it the "high-level armor set" quest line. Players called it Tier 0.5. To create it, Blizzard had to reimagine what WoW's dungeons should be.

This quest line was removed, like many others, when Deathwing brought the Cataclysm. Let's walk through what once was and explore how it gave rise to the modern dungeons we tackle today.

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MassivelyWoW Archivist: Tier 0.5 and the birth of modern dungeons originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 11 May 2014 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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    One Shots: Dance like nobody's watching

    Posted: 11 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT

    Filed under: Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Guild Wars 2, One Shots, Miscellaneous, WildStar

    Boy howdy, my screenshot challenge from a couple of weeks ago for you folks to take pictures of your characters dancing was pretty popular! I received a slew of entries, so why not dedicate an entire column to Massively readers shaking what their developers gave them?

    First up is reader Duncan, who wins the internet (for a minute at least) with this picture: "Hey Massively! Here is a snapshot of my Chua character BuzzCracker in WildStar taking time off from his adventures on Nexus to get down and funky on the dance floor at 'Wild William's Tiki Bar' in the tree tops of Wilderrun. Don't ask me why the Mechari and the two Loppi are dancing with no clothes behind Buzz; it must be something in the drinks being served by old Bill at the bar. Next stop for BuzzCracker is a spring break beach party ongoing in Malgrave!"

    Really, this should go to show that the world is primed and ready for an all-dancing MMO. Let's shake our groove thang with the rest of this week's entries!

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    MassivelyOne Shots: Dance like nobody's watching originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 11 May 2014 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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      The Daily Grind: Does your mom play video games?

      Posted: 11 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

      Filed under: Culture, Massively Meta, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous

      German Mother's Day heart cake
      Hey you! It's Mother's Day! What are you doing reading Massively when you should be calling your mom?

      In honor of moms everywhere, and with a tip of the hat to our comrades at Joystiq, we're pre-empting your regularly scheduled dose of Daily Grind snark in favor of mom-related questions. Does your mom play video games? Do you, as a mom, play video games? Let us know, and happy Mother's Day.

      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!

      MassivelyThe Daily Grind: Does your mom play video games? originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 11 May 2014 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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        Make My MMO: May 4 - May 10, 2014

        Posted: 10 May 2014 04:00 PM PDT

        Filed under: Fantasy, Business Models, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Crowdfunding, Make My MMO, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

        Make My MMO header
        This week in MMO crowdfunding news we said hello to The Stomping Land and goodbye to Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. The former is a PvP survival sandbox focused on taming dinosaurs, pitting the larger beasties against one another (because they're unkillable by puny player characters), and avoiding the typical gank squad behavior that's certain to manifest.

        The latter is of course Brad McQuaid's bid to recapture his EverQuest glory days. The latest bit of news, aside from various unsubstantiated internet rumors, involves McQuaid's decision to continue development with a volunteer dev team. Click past the cut for Massively's list of crowdfunded MMOs and their latest news updates.

        Continue reading Make My MMO: May 4 - May 10, 2014

        MassivelyMake My MMO: May 4 - May 10, 2014 originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 10 May 2014 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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          Meet The Secret World's Tokyo cast

          Posted: 10 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT

          Filed under: Sci-Fi, Lore, Previews, The Secret World, Post-Apocalyptic, Buy-to-Play

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          Tokyo is coming -- no, really! -- to The Secret World later this month, and Funcom is fueling fans' anticipation by introducing to them several of the primary NPCs who will be in the new zone.

          These characters include Sarah, a Council of Venice occult investigator; Gozen, a samurai leader who protects Japanese leadership from demons; Inbeda, an Oni demon mercenary; Daimon Kiyota, a leader of the Yakuza occult branch; and Kurt 'Buster' Kuszczak, an Orochi tank commander who is having a very bad day.

          Interestingly enough, players have already met Sarah. She was the character through whom players explored the tutorial; we saw the aftermath of the Tokyo disaster through her eyes.

          [Thanks to Cotic for the tip!]

          MassivelyMeet The Secret World's Tokyo cast originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 10 May 2014 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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          SOE announces game-specific player events for SOE Live

          Posted: 10 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT

          Filed under: Fantasy, Super-hero, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Culture, Events (Real-World), News Items, Free-to-Play, MMOFPS, Events (Massively's Coverage), DC Universe Online, PlanetSide 2, Sandbox, Landmark

          Are you headed to SOE Live this summer? We are, even if the game list is a tad shorter than in previous years. And that's why we're excited to see SOE's latest official post about the convention, set to run in Las Vegas, Nevada, this coming August 14th to 17th. The studio has announced special events for several of the games it plans to feature at the event:
          • Plane raids await EverQuest fans.
          • Deck-building games and PvP tournaments lie in store for DC Universe Online players.
          • EverQuest II players will participate in speed instances and a murder mystery quest.
          • Landmark devotees will be treated to a mega-build event and a harvesting-themed dice event.
          • Finally, the studio has planned a squad showdown event for PlanetSide 2 players.
          Early bird registration for SOE Live ends on Monday.

          MassivelySOE announces game-specific player events for SOE Live originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 10 May 2014 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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          MMORPG News

          MMORPG News

          General: In Support of Convenience

          Posted: 10 May 2014 12:10 PM PDT

          In Support of Convenience

          Recently, I was reading an old article by ex-Firefall CEO/developer Mark Kern wherein he expressed the concern that MMOs were becoming too easy. But is the issue that MMOs are becoming too easy, or is it just that they're becoming a lot less inconvenient than they used to be?

          ArcheAge: Livestream: New Transportation Feature Guide

          Posted: 10 May 2014 02:15 PM PDT

          Livestream: New Transportation Feature Guide

          Trion Worlds Twitch channel this week features the sixth installment of the Exploring ArcheAge livestream series. This episode Associate Producer Amanda "Amary" Fry and Senior Community Relations Manager Evan "Scapes" Berman cover the game's transportation options.

          Shroud of the Avatar: Update of the Avatar #72

          Posted: 10 May 2014 02:23 PM PDT

          Update of the Avatar #72

          Lord British's pet MMO Shroud of the Avatar this week features a slew of new content additions.

          Transformers Universe: Two New Bots: Showdown and Mismatch Join the Fight

          Posted: 10 May 2014 02:31 PM PDT

          Two New Bots: Showdown and Mismatch Join the Fight

          This week Jagex revealed two new 'bots are joining the Transformers Universe. Defensive mech "Showdown" protects allies with his shield and "Showdown Shuffle" while scavenger Mismatch uses his rockets and explosive minigun to take enemies to school.

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          MMOGaming News

          MMOGaming News

          Extravagant Cosplay of Viletta Nu by Midori Kanda

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          Extravagant Cosplay of Viletta Nu by Midori Kanda


          Villetta Nu, 26 years old (27 at R2), is a dark skinned elite Knightmare Frame pilot and subordinate of Jeremiah Gottwald, though she is more collected than Jeremiah in battle.

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