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– Brightlocker Wants to Connect You to Your Games

Brightlocker is a new game development, game sharing, game funding, game streaming, game everything platform from a group of industry veterans based out of Austin Texas. What is it exactly? Try to imagine one service that connects the capabilities and functions of Kickstarter, Twitch, Social Media, and Private Forums all in one place. It’s a service that wants to connect players and devs in deeper ways than any before it, to let both work together to foster great games on a more tangible level.

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World of Warcraft – Mythic Dungeon Invitational Proving Grounds Kicks Off

From today through the next two weeks, World of Warcraft mythic dungeon teams of 5-players can work to complete dungeons in record time to qualify for the finals and a share of $100k. Multiple dungeons will need to be completed during the 2-week event. Blizzard will judge performance across each team’s top five dungeon times in order to select teams for inclusion in the Invitational.

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Dark and Light – Global Mobile Version ‘Tales of Gaia’ Announced

Snail Games announced late last year that it was working on a mobile version of Dark & Light, but had only confirmed the Chinese version. However, it is now confirmed as a global mobile MMO that is “coming soon”. The game’s Facebook page has been quite active over the past month, revealing mounts, classes and more. On July 17th, the game finished its “Test Flight” with several key issues identified and addressed. The Android closed beta is scheduled to begin “soon”.

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World of Warcraft – Method Releases World First Mythic Kil’jaeden Kill Video

Method (EU realms) scored a “world first” Mythic Kil’jaeden kill last week in the World of Warcraft raid The Tomb of Sargeras after “only” 654 wipes ahead of it. Though Blizzard doesn’t official count world first kills any more, many of the top raiding guilds vie for the honor of being the first. To celebrate their victory, the raid team and guild leadership released the video of the kill. Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Blade & Soul – Server Consolidations & a New Class Incoming

The latest producer’s letter has been published on the Blade & Soul site that takes a bit of a look back at the accomplishments of the past year as well as provides a peek into the future. Producer Jonathan Lien writes about server consolidations coming in the near future in order to better facilitate finding groups. There will be two server realms for North America and three for Europe. The consolidation is expected to take place on August 9th.

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Grim Dawn – Expansion Play Testing Begins + New Monster Infrequents

The Grim Dawn forum has a new update that contains some big news for players looking forward to the upcoming expansion. Play testing has, according to the post, officially begun. Those who have been chosen to check out the expansion content, are seeing approximately 50% of what will be included. We still have no name for the expansion, but to know that the team is closing in on finishing production is good news indeed.