Month: February 2019

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Take a Step Back in Time on the TERA Europe Classic Server

On February 12th, TERA EU will be launching a Classic Server in celebration of the game’s sixth anniversary. Players will be able to (re)explore “long-closed instances” like the Crucible of Flame, the Temple of Temerity and the Sirjuka Gallery. End game dungeons will reopen such as Rift’s Edge, Balder’s Temple and Fane of Kaprima. The server will also include 120 player invasions “in the revived Nexus events” and 20-player Traverse Sovereign raids as well.

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Torchlight Frontiers – Forging Forward with the Community as a Guide

Torchlight Frontiers is inching ever closer to its eventual launch in 2019, and with two exciting alpha weekends under its belt, and more to come, we caught up with Tyler Thompson, Project Lead and Echtra Co-Founder and Paul Hobbs, Community Manage at Echtra. Together, we discussed everything from how the team’s been trying to push the genre farther, and how they’ve learned to rein it in when they go too far.

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Apex Legends Concurrent Users Reach 600k with Over 3M Unique Players in 24-Hours

There’s no question that Apex Legends is off to a strong start. During yesterday’s EA investor relations call, CEO Andrew Wilson spoke about the amazing success the game had attained in its first 24-hours. “What I can say is that in the first 24-hours we had over 2.5 million unique users trending past towards 3 million unique users and nearly 600,000 peak and current users kind of in the middle of a Tuesday, so it’s very early but the response to the game has been very, very strong”.

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EA Stock Drops 18% After Investor Relations Call About ‘A Difficult Quarter’

EA’s investor call took place earlier this week with some surprising admissions from CEO Andrew Wilson. “Q3 was a difficult quarter for Electronic Arts and we did not perform to our expectations.” While Battlefield V sold 7.3M copies, it was nearly a million units short of projections largely due to the month-long delay of its release. “Unfortunately the release date meant the game launched deeper into a competitive holiday window,” Wilson said.

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No More Lonely Pirates Thanks to the Sea of Thieves Friends Play Free Event

Nothing says adventure more than a ship full o’friends wantin’ to sail the high seas. But…if they’re not there, who helps collect the booty? From February 6th to February 13th, Sea of Thieves players can invite up to three friends to play the game for free. Those who subscribe to XBox Game Pass or who own the game can snag codes to pass out to budding pirate types. During the event, Rare will be running the limited time quest to search out and find the Rum Runner’s trove o’treasure.