Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter is a wildly successful and popular MMORPG for PC and Xbox One. In fact, earlier this year I wrote an article about why I think that Neverwinter belongs on every Xbox One. Today, Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced that Neverwinter will be receiving its seventh expansion in the form of an update called Strongholds. From the official announcement: “Reminiscent ...
Read More »World of Warcraft Bans: 100,000 Accounts Shut Down
Azeroth has became a desolate and forbidding place once again. Last night, a Blizzard community manager announced that 100,000 World of Warcraft accounts have been banned for using bots. The World of Warcraft bans will run for 6 months. Lore, the cannily named community manager in question, stated: “We’ve recently taken action against a large number of World of Warcraft ...
Read More »Tera reveals the Gunner class!
Fans who have been enjoying Tera’s Fate of Arun expansion have something to look forward to in the next major patch. En Masse recently released a trailer revealing the new Gunner class, highlighting her massive cannon and tiny pet robot. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any gameplay in the reveal, but since this class is already available on Korean servers, there’s plenty ...
Read More »Neverwinter Belongs on every Xbox One
Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter wasn’t even on my radar when I first saw it appear in the Xbox Store on March 31, 2015. In fact, I had never even heard of it. But the wait for the Xbox One edition of The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited is absolutely killing me, so I immediately jumped at the chance to have a free-to-play ...
Read More »Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward: new story, new jobs, flying mounts
With the release of Heavensward (the first expansion for Final Fantasy XIV: A realm reborn,) coming up this summer, players are eager to know what is in store for the expansion. Many details of the upcoming expansion have already been revealed to us. We know that the level cap will be raised from 50 to 60; we know there are ...
Read More »WoW Patch 6.2 Preview: Timewalking
Earlier this week Blizzard released the patch 6.2 for their popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, onto their Public Test Realms. Though it will be a while until Patch is released onto the live servers, this is the first major look that players will be able to get at the new content that awaits. The patch will be introducing changes that ...
Read More »WoW Tokens: A New Way to Pay Your WoW Subscription
This week Blizzard Entertainment has released a new feature for their popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, which could potentially have a huge impact on the game’s future. This new release, however, has little to do with WoW’s game play, and more to do with how players pay for their game time. Instead of paying the typical $15 every month, players ...
Read More »Square Enix Details the Future of Final Fantasy XI
As detailed by Gematsu, Square Enix has a lot of plans for its fourteen year old MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. The three initiatives together take the name of the Vana’diel Project, named for the fantasy world of the game. With this project, Square Enix hopes to expand and build upon the story and scenarios of Final Fantasy XI in order ...
Read More »Asteroids Rebooted as an Online Survival Game
Atari has announced the development and upcoming release of Asteroids: Outpost. Yes, this is being labeled as a reboot of the classic 1979 arcade space shooter by Atari, but it’s looking almost nothing like the original. Instead of updating the classic game mode, this revival will be a sandbox style, open world, survival game. Players are cast as a miner in outer space ...
Read More »Plans Unveiled for Updates to Star Wars: The Old Republic
A new post from senior producer for Star Wars: The Old Republic Bruce Maclean has laid out the first plans for further updates for the MMORPG from BioWare. The game already saw plenty of improvements last year with two expansions, a reworking of the class system where Disciplines replaced the old Skill Tree function, and continued regular story updates through ...
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