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It’s week 3 of the Guild Wars 2 Welcome Back event where players can unlock Living World Season 4: Long Live the Lich for free provided they own the expansion. Players simply go to the Gem Store to snag their copy along with an Experience Booster. The free episode is available from April 9th through April 15th.
The latest Neverwinter blog devoted to the upcoming Undermountain content expansion has been published, this time penned by Environment Artist Patrick Poage. In it, Poage talks about creating the perfect environments for Expeditions and the goals the team had setting out into Undermountain. “We want it to feel like you’re traveling far and wide across Undermountain and we want to give it as much variety as we can”.
One of my biggest struggles with World of Warcraft currently is finding stuff to do outside of raiding. I’m pretty much wholly unmotivated when it comes to everything outside the realm of raiding; which is depressing when you consider I was fully engaged throughout Legion. I never felt the grind of leveling my artifact weapons, I was pretty much always enjoying doing what I wanted to get that done. As I’m sitting here waiting for 8.2 I’m wondering, why does everything feel so difficult this time
Update: The Blizzard team has announced that the next Overwatch Archive lore event is called Storm Rising. The event till run from April 16th to May 6th and appears it will be set in Cuba. Tracer is leading a team consisting of Genji, Mercy and Winston as they are tracking down Doomfist’s accountant in Havana. This is the third Archive event and joins both Retribution and Uprising in providing players with lore information about the characters and locations in the game.
Blizzard is teasing out what appears to be the next Overwatch “Archive” event. These events are designed to give players a peek into the past lore of the game. This time, devs have posted a Spanish language “newspaper article” called the Havana Sun, indicating that, if this is an Archive event, it will take place in Cuba. Archive events have been running in April and May for the past couple of years, so this seems to fit the timeline.
From today through June 17th, former players of Final Fantasy XIV can participate in a login event to check out all of the new additions to the game since their last visit. Players will have had to have had an account in good standing and cannot have been active for the past month or so. Once a player logs in, they will have the next seven days to run around Eorzea at will.
On Wednesday, April 10th, the Military & Veterans Gamers group, the largest veteran-affiliated gamer community in the US, will be hosting a second charity live stream event in order to raise funds to send care packages to military personnel deployed overseas. After the last event in February, organizers were able to send over $1000 worth of care-packages and they’re hoping to match, or beat, that number during this week’s event.
In honor of TwitchCon EU, My.com will be hosting a free weekend of Conqueror’s Blade so everyone can check out the game alongside attendees at the convention. Two new regions are being added to those present in previous events and all-new units are being added to army rosters.
Neocore Games has revealed the first information about what players can expect with the 2.0 update to Warhammer: Inquisitor Martyr when it launches for all platforms on May 28th. The update will be free and is based on player feedback and extensive testing. Developers say that 2.0 addresses and changes core features of the game including the progression system, itemization, loot and combat. Players will also find new end game modes, new items, coop campaign mode and a new level cap.
In the latest editorial at GameSpace.com, Poorna Shankar takes on the recent happenings with BioWare with regard to Anthem’s Development. He examines Kotaku’s well-researched article about the difficulties and issues inside BioWare while Anthem was being developed as well as provides his thoughts on BioWare’s response to the article.