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Star Trek Online: Age of Discovery, changes things up a little bit with its recent installment into the Trek world. Based on which era character you pick you will begin your story in that time period. We get to start off in the era of Discovery based on the new CBS show. You are an academy student on your first training cruise, and you have to meet with your Captain to see what your place on the ship will be.
The Albion Online site has been updated to bring the first information out about the game’s next major content update. Called “Nimue”, the update will launch on November 21st with a number of quality of life improvements to the game as well as guild logos, crop/furniture placement improvements, mob faction caps, Guardian Aspects, the ability to mark enemies and party roles. Lastly, a number of improvements to faction outposts, arena and NPC/town buildings will be included.
There’s so much on the horizon for World of Warcraft players it’s almost daunting. With the 8.1 Tides of Vengance set to go live December 11-13 it’s time to start looking ahead to what’s next for WoW. After the What’s Next in World of Warcraft panel I had the opportunity to chat with Jimmy Lo, Visual Design Producer, and Ray Cobo, Lead Producer Art & Design, about some of the things we have to look forward to after 8.1.
As part of its commitment to the Rend community, Frostkeep Studios has revealed a pair of new game modes that have landed on its PTR. Class and Exploration modes will offer players different ways to experience the game. In Classic, players will fight others for dominance through PvP activities. Exploration, however, provides a “pure PvE experience” to allow players to range about the world to uncover every nook and cranny.
If you’ve been looking for lots of brand new content in Final Fantasy XIV, look no further than today’s launch of Prelude in Violet patch v4.45. Prelude in Violet content includes new side story quests (such as Hildibrand!), new furnishings have been added alongside additional orchestrion rolls, the Manderville Gold Saucer has new prizes, new emotes and hairstyles have been added, adjustments to weekly raid rewards are included as well.
Fans were left stunned and disappointed last April when former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title contender Anthony Johnson announced his retirement from the sport after a second loss to 205-pound champion Daniel Cormier.
South Korea’s G-Star 2018 is nearing and many of the attending companies are starting to push out new trailers. Nexon has finally named “Project DH” that was first introduced at G-Star 2016. The Unreal Engine 4 MMOARPG is now known as Dragon Hound and it comes along with a proper cinematic trailer.
Warframe fans will be happy to hear that the game’s next big content expansion, Fortuna, will be launching on Steam for PC later this week. Fortuna will see players take off for Venus to explore “the huge new terrain on foot, hop on the radical Bondi K-Drive Hoverboard, or soar through the air via Archwing”. Players can take part in a number of activities including “exploring, hunting, mining, fishing and facing off against the Nef Anyo and the money-driven Corpus”.
It appears that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds may soon be heading to PlayStation 4 at long last. The Korean Ratings Board provided a rating for the game in September, an almost sure sign of its imminent release. In addition, a poster at PSNProfiles.com (via ResetEra) has reignited the speculation with the discovery of a PSN library icon and and image of the well-known loading screen.
In the continuing saga of one of the most viral stories in gaming, Blizzard Entertainment has responded to a rumor that Diablo 4 was intended to be announced at BlizzCon 2018 last weekend in addition to the as-yet poorly received Diablo Immortal mobile game. In and of itself, this is highly unusual as Blizzard generally ignores rumors. However, after a Kotaku story citing the rumor exploded all over the internet, the company felt it needed to respond.