MMORPG News

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• Marvel Heroes 2015: Magneto to be Second Playable Villain
• Elsword: New Professions, Ruben and Elder Zones Being Revamped
• World of Tanks: Blitz Launches on Android With Cross-Platform iOS Gameplay
• EVE Online: Rhea Update Launches
• General: Runemaster Development Frozen, Team Reassigned
• General: Should Games Make Political Statements?
• The Secret World: Issue 10 Nightmare in the Dream Palace Preview
• Destiny: Three Things Destiny Can Do To Improve
• World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor - Bringing Back the Glory Days
• General: Dragon's Dogma Online Trademark Spotted

Marvel Heroes 2015: Magneto to be Second Playable Villain Posted: 05 Dec 2014 10:29 PM PST Magneto being the owner of arguably, some of the coolest superpowers ever, it's no surprise MH 2015 is adding him to its villainous roster. As the game's 41st playable character, he'll add not only his ahem...magnetism, but the voice of James Arnold Taylor, known for portraying Ratchet, of Ratchet and Clank fame, and Tidus from Final Fantasy X.

Elsword: New Professions, Ruben and Elder Zones Being Revamped Posted: 05 Dec 2014 10:43 PM PST KOG Games clearly is hoping to up its so-so player ratings by dropping in new content and revisiting some of the old. This week the company announced the addition of a new Profession System that lets level 40 players pick one of three talents.

World of Tanks: Blitz Launches on Android With Cross-Platform iOS Gameplay Posted: 05 Dec 2014 10:50 PM PST At long last, non-Apple users will be able to play WoT Blitz on their Android devices; better, yet, they'll be able to work out their differences with their Apple rivals via hot and heavy tank battles.

EVE Online: Rhea Update Launches Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:52 PM PST CCP Games has announced the launch of the latest EVE Online content expansion called "Rhea". Players have much to look forward to in the form of new ships, over a hundred new wormhole systems and a massive star system to explore. Rhea is the second winter content expansion that, according to the development team, sets the stage for massive overhauls to game mechanics and more in 2015.

General: Runemaster Development Frozen, Team Reassigned Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:44 PM PST Paradox Interactive has a new post on the official forums that lets the community know that development of the procedural RPG, Runemaster, has been frozen. According to the post, the game was not meeting the high standards that Paradox sets for its titles but that the company had learned valuable lessons in the process. The Runemaster team has been reassigned and Paradox is considering reusing the assets created on another project.

General: Should Games Make Political Statements? Posted: 03 Dec 2014 06:24 PM PST Gamergate has invaded the public consciousness. What was once a simple conversation about ethics in gaming journalism has spiraled into an all-out shouting match with anything progressive firmly falling in the movement's sights and any critics being quickly labeled as bigots. As I've played through Dragon Age: Inquisition, encountering characters of every stripe and sexuality, my mind kept returning to these themes. Did Bioware include this character or that for a reason?

The Secret World: Issue 10 Nightmare in the Dream Palace Preview Posted: 05 Dec 2014 01:47 PM PST The Secret World issue 10: Nightmare in the Dream Palace is live, and we recently had the chance to run around the other side of Tokyo in a look at the brand new content. When we last left issue 9, there had been a huge explosion that conveniently reduced the quarantine wall that had been blocking off one side of Tokyo from the other, to more of an inconvenience than an obstacle. Issue 9 worked to lay down the foundations of new systems and new strategies, specifically having to do with Aegis.

Destiny: Three Things Destiny Can Do To Improve Posted: 04 Dec 2014 03:15 PM PST In a column last month, I took a look at the potential for good gameplay to trump other outdated systems and keep us hooked on otherwise mediocre games. The example I used was Destiny, which has a solid core shooter experience but is relatively uninteresting in the story, content, and loot departments. I've been playing more of Bungie's pseudo-MMOFPS, and suffice it to say that even its fun twitch gameplay is starting to wear thin.

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor - Bringing Back the Glory Days Posted: 03 Dec 2014 06:08 PM PST Right from the get-go, it needs to be said that Warlords of Draenor is a fantastic expansion. It has hit many of the right notes in all the right ways beginning with the stat and skill pruning that has been much discussed over the last year or so. Players have fewer skills, but better ones overall. Traveling through the world on the way to 100, fighting in both normal and heroic dungeons, anywhere in Draenor requires thought.

General: Dragon's Dogma Online Trademark Spotted Posted: 05 Dec 2014 08:22 AM PST VG247.com has spotted a new trademark that has been filed in Europe by Capcom. The big surprise? Dragon's Dogma Online seems to be coming to a gaming rig one day.

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MMOGaming News

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New Armor Set Which Increase the Drop Rate in Black Desert Preview Posted: The New equipment "Costume luck" was created for the fans to make money on the battlefield, and search the corpses. And there will be plenty of fans, because we all know that the best things armor fall out by killing monsters. Continue reading New Armor Set Which Increase the Drop Rate in Black Desert Preview.

Rift - Citadel of Insanity Guide Posted: In Rift, this dungeon is designed for players level 63 to 65 and involves fast runs. With four bosses and pretty easy mechanics, it's fast and easy to get used to. Continue reading Rift - Citadel of Insanity Guide.

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MMORPG Reviews

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• TERA Fate of Arun Expansion In-Depth
• Asterix & Friends Item Packs Giveaway
• Rising Cities Free Packs Giveaway
• The Secret World Gets New Update

TERA Fate of Arun Expansion In-Depth Posted: 05 Dec 2014 12:14 PM PST We lately received an invitation to attend the exclusive press walk-through of TERA to get an in-depth insight into the new content players may look forward to when the latest expansion Fate of Arun will launch. Just for those of you who aren't familiar with TERA, it's an F2P action massively multiplayer online role-playing game […] The post TERA Fate of Arun Expansion In-Depth appeared first on MMORPG Reviews.

Asterix & Friends Item Packs Giveaway Posted: 05 Dec 2014 04:20 AM PST These Romans are crazy, aren’t they? Whether you are a fan of the adventures of Asterix or not, you will love to join the indomitable Gauls as they fight the Romans in Asterix & Friends. We’re giving away packs of items that will help you to achieve your goal and survive another day. Each pack […] The post Asterix & Friends Item Packs Giveaway appeared first on MMORPG Reviews.

Rising Cities Free Packs Giveaway Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:34 AM PST Being the mayor isn’t easy, or so they say. This is your opportunity to prove you are suited to fulfil the job (or to ruin the lives of your citizens). We’re hosting a giveaway with $3-value packs for Rising Cities including all you need to succeed. Each pack contains: 1 surfer van, 50 lumber, 20 beams and 1000 CityCredits. Just follow […] The post Rising Cities Free Packs Giveaway appeared first on MMORPG Reviews.

The Secret World Gets New Update Posted: 05 Dec 2014 02:01 AM PST With 'Nightmares in the Dream Palace', The Secret World has just received its latest content update, which introduces a new storyline and takes players back to Tokyo where vast new areas await to be visited. Players will have to face off against ferocious new creatures and bosses. “With each new update to The Secret World, […] The post The Secret World Gets New Update appeared first on MMORPG Reviews.

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General Gaming Article

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• Interview with Elite Dangerous CEO David Braben
• Graphics Porn (Holiday 2014): Wreckfest, Unity, Call of Duty, and More
• July 2014: Tech Sneak Peek
• Newegg Daily Deals: Corsair Flash Voyager Go 64GB, Acer 21.5-inch LED Monitor, and More!
• Endurance Test Shows Your SSD Might Have Legs to Last 1,000 Years
• Dying Light Isn't a Game for Wimpy Systems
• Capcom Lets Slip Street Fighter V is Exclusive to Windows PC and PlayStation 4
• Samsung Galaxy S5 Made Tastier with Android 5.0 Lollipop
• Asus Teases Matrix Platinum GTX 980 Graphics Card in Pictures

Interview with Elite Dangerous CEO David Braben Posted: 05 Dec 2014 04:10 PM PST Game will support 4K and 16K Elite: Dangerous is almost upon us and we are excited considering that the game was one of our most anticipated PC games of 2014. Created by Frontier Developments, the sci-fi combat simulator is the fourth installment in the Elite game franchise that also features trading and space exploration in a 1:1 scale of our own universe. Maximum PC had the opportunity to interview Frontier Developments CEO David Braben, courtesy of Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang. Braben, who founded Frontier Developments back in 1994, talked about how the game's setting is a recreation of our universe and, when asked about how the universe in the game is modeled after our own, he replied, "Every single star in the night sky, that you can see, is in the game. Even the really faint ones. So we can see 6,000-7,000 in the night sky and they are all in the game. So are the full 160,000 that we got from star catalogues and other sources." The interview goes on to cover other topics such as what gamers can do in the game, virtual reality support, whether or not a person can become stranded while exploring, why the developer decided to have the game support 16K, and Develop Frontiers' decision to do regarding playing single player offline. "We found it increasingly difficult to do, and I think this has upset some people, is the wholly offline play," Braben replied when asked about the single player campaign. "The game was still going to be downloaded, but the ability to play wholly offline is something we found increasingly difficult to offer."  Be sure to watch the entire interview for his full explanation about the company's apporach to the single player campaign and let us know what you think of the interview in the comment section below. Follow Sean on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook

Graphics Porn (Holiday 2014): Wreckfest, Unity, Call of Duty, and More Posted: 05 Dec 2014 12:31 PM PST Showcasing the sexiest, most photogenic game screenshots this side of the Internet It's the holiday season, which means that gamers everywhere will soon sit down and soon have a chance to catch up on their massive backlogs. To commemorate the occasion, we've compiled a gallery of spectacular screenshots to get your gaming taste buds going. We've reached out to members of r/GamerPorn to fill out the submissions for the this month's Graphics Porn.  Whether you've been following our handy-dandy guide on how to capture beautiful-looking game screens or simply print-screening some beautiful wallpaper-worthy game moments, we want to be able to share your captured works of art with the world. If you think you can do better than the pictures submitted below, please email your screenshots to mpcgraphicsporn@gmail.com so we can show them off. Make sure to include the name of the game, a title for the screenshot, and a description of what's happening on-screen.

July 2014: Tech Sneak Peek Posted: 05 Dec 2014 12:22 PM PST In the PDF archive of the July 2014 issue, you can find: Tech Sneak Peek Antivirus roundup Laptop Backpacks roundup Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X OC How To: Become a Twitch TV Star

Newegg Daily Deals: Corsair Flash Voyager Go 64GB, Acer 21.5-inch LED Monitor, and More! Posted: 05 Dec 2014 10:51 AM PST Top Deal: Hey, look at all that data in the cloud! Talk about convenient. At least until there's a service outage -- then you're boned. That's when it's handy to go old school with a flash drive, which is double handy if you're paranoid about Uncle Sam snooping your files online. If you're in the market for one, check out today's top deal for a Corsair Flash Voyager Go 64GB USB Flash Drive for $28 (normally $50 - use coupon code: [EMCWHPE34]). It's capacious, uses USB 3.0, and portable -- hat trick! Other Deals: Acer 21.5-inch 5ms LED Backlight Widescreen LCD Monitor 250 for $100 (normally $110 - use coupon code: [EMCWHPE22]) Patriot Signature Series 32GB microSDHC Flash Card for $9 with free shipping (normally $20 - use coupon code: [EMCWHPE35]; additional $5 Mail-in rebate) WD Black Series 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive for $210 with free shipping (normally $235 - use coupon code: [ESCWHPF27]) Corsair HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 80 Plus Gold Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply for $120 with free shipping (normally $150 - use coupon code: [EMCWHPF29]; additional $20 Mail-in rebate)

Endurance Test Shows Your SSD Might Have Legs to Last 1,000 Years Posted: 05 Dec 2014 10:30 AM PST Examining the lifespan of SSDs Solid state storage (SSD) drives are relative newcomers to the storage scene compared to media like mechanical hard disk drives. So the question remains, are SSDs reliable? Barring a time machine and enough plutonium to keep it running, it's a tough question to answer. In the absence of a DoLorean equipped to race back and forth in time, the next best way to test SSDs for endurance is to bombard them with writes. Turns out such a test is taking place with two SSDs having survived 2 petabytes of write tests so far. The curious folk at TechReport started endurance testing a batch of SSDs a year ago. They started off with SSDs from the Corsair Neutron Series GTX, Intel 335 Series, Kingston HyperX 3K, and Samsung 840 Series. The two that are left standing are the Kingston and Samsung drives, both of which have surpassed 2 petabytes of writes and are still going strong. To give you an idea of longevity, most consumer SSDs will process up to a couple of terabytes every few years. To write 2 petabytes of data under normal use scenarios, you'd be looking at about 1,000 years. Luck of the draw plays a factor, as TechReport's first HyperX 3K SSD died after reaching 728TB. Nevertheless, that's a lot of data, and like the other four drives that died during the endurance test, it "vastly" exceeded its official endurance specifications. "More importantly, the drives all survived far more writes than most users are likely to generate. Typical consumers shouldn't worry about exceeding the endurance of modern SSDs," TechReport writes. Granted, this is just one test and the sample size is pretty small to draw definitive conclusions from, but the results are certainly promising. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook

Dying Light Isn't a Game for Wimpy Systems Posted: 05 Dec 2014 09:55 AM PST Minimum and recommeded specs for Dying Light If you're planning to play Dying Light when it releases to the public next month, hopefully you were able to take advantage of the various Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and upgrade your PC. Publisher Warner Bros. Entertainment posted the minimum and recommended specs of Dying Light on Steam -- they're fairly heavy, especially the recommended portion, which calls for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics card. Let's start with the minimum specs, which are a bit more manageable (though still calls for something much newer than that Barton system you pridefully built several years ago): OS: Windows 7 64-bit / Windows 8 64-bit / Windows 8.1 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 2500 @ 3.3GHz / AMD FX-8320 @ 3.5GHz Memory: 4GB RAM DDR3 Hard Drive: 40GB free space Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 6870 DirectX: Version 11 Sound: DirectX compatible And here's a look at the much burlier recommended specs: OS: Windows 7 64-bit / Windows 8 64-bit / Windows 8.1 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz / AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0GHz Memory: 8GB RAM DDR3 Hard Drive: 40GB free space Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon  R9 290 DirectX: Version 11 Sound: DirectX compatible In addition, WB posted a somewhat disheartening warning for mobile gamers saying that laptop versions of graphics cards may work but are not officially supported. Dying Light is a first-person action survival game set in a vast open world. It's set to release on January 27, 2015, though you can place your pre-order now on Steam for $60. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook

Capcom Lets Slip Street Fighter V is Exclusive to Windows PC and PlayStation 4 Posted: 05 Dec 2014 09:02 AM PST PC gamers (and PS4 players) get first dibs on Street Fighter V Being a PC gamer doesn't come without the occasional indignity, likely crappy console ports and being left out of the equation altogether. Thankfully it's not always like that, and it certainly won't be that way when Street Fighter V comes out, or so it seems. How do we know? Capcom posted a game trailer revealing that Street Fighter V will launch exclusively to Windows PCs and the PlayStation 4. Apparently we weren't supposed to be privy to that information just yet, as Capcom yanked the trailer offline. However, this is the Internet we're talking about, a hostile place for secrets without a true undo button. As such, you can still view the trailer, just not at its original location. Some of the mirror locations have been taken down due to copyright claims, though at the time of this writing, it's still available for viewing at Polygon. The exclusive trailer was first picked up by a forum member at NeoGAF. The question is, what does exclusive mean (to Capcom)? It's not clear if Street Fighter V will only be released to PC and PS4, or if the publisher is just referring to an initial launch. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook

Samsung Galaxy S5 Made Tastier with Android 5.0 Lollipop Posted: 05 Dec 2014 08:31 AM PST Lollipop lands in record time The one catch with Android is that it sometimes takes a long time for new builds to trickle down to handsets that Google isn't in direct control of. That's been the case with Samsung's Galaxy handsets as well, though surprisingly, Android 5.0 Lollipop is already being unwrapped on the Galaxy S5. We say "surprisingly" because this is the first time Samsung has pushed out a major new update this soon since being released. Google's finished code for Lollipop was made available on November 4th. Here a month later, it's installed on less than 1 percent of all Android devices -- not enough to even be included on Google's pie chart for Android builds. Nevertheless, SamMobile says the newest code has been rolling out to Galaxy S5 owners in Poland and should start appearing in other European countries shortly. Hopefully the U.S. market isn't far behind. Paring Android 5.0 with the Galaxy S5 meshes the best version of Google's open source operating system to date with arguably the best Android handset on the market. Android 5.0 brings with it an overhauled UI, a brand new lockscreen, better battery management, and several other improvements that make it a desirable upgrade. It's the biggest upgrade to Android since Ice Cream Sandwich. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook

Asus Teases Matrix Platinum GTX 980 Graphics Card in Pictures Posted: 05 Dec 2014 08:05 AM PST Early look at Asus' upcoming graphics card Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) says that online reviews of its new Matrix Platinum GTX 980 graphics card will hit the web next week, though in the meantime, it's providing a couple of press photos for an early look. The graphics card maker also revealed some specs about the high-end card, including the fact that it boasts a custom PCB with a 14-phase Super Alloy Power VRM and Black Metallic capacitors. This is a card that LN2 enthusiasts might be interested in, as it sports a memory defroster. Overclockers will also appreciate its safe mode feature for when things go wrong, along with things like the ROG color-coded load indicator and ROG Edition GPU Tweak. For those who don't plan to go crazy with LN2, the card will keep its cool with Asus ROG's DirectCU II cooler with CoolTech fan and 10mm matte-black heat pipes. Oddly enough, Asus didn't reveal the GPU's base clockspeed, though did say its boost clock is configured for 1,342MHz, up from Nvidia's reference clock of 1,216MHz. The 4GB of GDDR5 memory is set at 7,010MHz (effective), same as reference. Finally, the card will feature three DisplayPort connectors, along with HDMI and dual-link DVI-I display outputs. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook

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