Month: March 2019

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Dual Universe Alpha Community Shines in Ship Design

The Dual Universe community was recently challenged by the dev team to create the most awesome ships they could imagine and have they ever come through. The contest was held in December and devs were so pleased with what they saw that a new video has been created to showcase some of the best of the best. “What would sci-fi be without spaceships? Whether it is system-hopping frigates or nimble, planetside fighters, spacecraft give a sci-fi universe its flavor.”

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Neural MMO Teaching AI About Agents’ ‘Overall Competence’

OpenAI is a California-based nonprofit group that released “Neural MMO”, a “massively multiagent” game with the goal that “the inclusion of many agents and species leads to better exploration, divergent niche formation, and greater overall competence”. Players enter a tile-based map where, according to VentureBeat, “they observe the square crops of tiles centered on their respective positions & make one movement & one attack per tick”. They are engaged with foraging or are in combat with others.

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Shroud of the Avatar – ‘We Are Nomadic Now’ as the Team Gives Up Its Office Space

The Shroud of the Avatar livestream from last week started off with a bang as Starr Long kicked things off with “We are nomadic now” and told the viewers that Portalarium had decided to give up its office space in favor of teleworking. The move away from offices will free up resources and time, according to Long, due to increasing office rental costs and rising utilities as well as commute time / cost for developers.

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Neverwinter’s Challenge Campaigns to Keep Zones Relevant Even for Max Level ‘Toons

The Neverwinter site has been updated with a new blog post that introduces the new Challenge Campaigns that are designed to bring relevance back to older areas to make them more attractive to endgame players. Campaigns that are considered older and that are not leveling zones will be “scaled to offer a consistent challenge when adventuring in their zones”. Three weekly quests sending players off to these specially-designated zones will also be available in Protector’s Enclave.

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PC Build: The RGB Overkill Gaming PC

If there’s one trend in PC building over the last few years, RGB is it. Some people love it and some people hate it, but it’s hard to argue that extra customization is anything but a bad thing. We decided to take it to the next level with our latest build, the RGB Overkill Gaming PC. What happens when you take the industry up on RGB everything? Join us as we find out.