The Dark & Light team has participated in an in-house interview with Director Shen Yan about how the game world is being built, his favorite locations in D&L and the overall process of design. Yan turns his eye to The Sacred Path, a location filled with twenty unique areas.
MXM: Master X Master – Founder’s Packs Detailed, Beta Begins
MXM (Master x Master) has officially kicked off beta testing that will run through April 27th. Testers will be able to check out a number of new or improved features including PvE stages, mini-games, PvP battles and much more. In addition, NCSoft announced the prices for Founder’s Packs that all contain varying amounts of in-game items and more.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – Journey to Un’Goro Goes Live
In case you missed it yesterday, Blizzard announced that HearthStone’s newest expansion is now live. Journey to Un’Goro takes a prehistoric journey back in time. The expansion features 135 new cards and some interesting new mechanics.
– HIVElights Reel – The Best of 2016 – TheHiveLeader
2016 was yet another awesome year! It may be a bit late, but let’s celebrate with a compilation of TheHiveLeader’s favorite moments from all his videos from 2016.
– Guilded App – Keeping Group Comms Open in a Single Handy App
Guilded is a software that brings a host of different communications apps together into one hand, multi-functional application. It adds features that keep groups together and much, much more. We chatted with the Guilded team. It’s an informative look at an innovative product. Check it out!
– Ship of Heroes KickStarter Ends, Development to Continue
Heroic Games has announced that it is ending its Ship of Heroes KickStarter campaign in response to community feedback. Casey McGeever wrote that, while community support was there in general, that many were not ready to back a KickStarter project in Ship of Heroes’ current state. Even with the cancellation, development will continue with “guided alpha” experiences by the end of 2017 and a soft launch targeted for late 2018.
Crossout – New Update Brings Ranked Battles
The latest update to Crossout has been deployed and it brings the usual amount of bug fixes and feature enhancements along with ranked battles, something the community has been asking for. Players will need to achieve a couple of prerequisites prior to becoming eligible for ranked play, but once accomplished, let the fights begin.
– Nostalgic PvP Crowd Funded Fandom
This week Tim Eisen explores the crowd funded PVP concept in ways that only nostalgia and conditioning can justify.
Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade – Better Performance, Less Lag & Improved Combat the Priority
The latest State of the Crusade has been published for Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade that lays out the most recent happenings for the game. Of particular note is the priority list that provides information about the most crucial aspects of the game on which developers are focused. In this case better performance, less lag and improved combat take center stage.
TERA – TERA: First Look at the Valkyrie Class
Let me start by saying yes – I’d love for there to be a non-gender locked class or possibly at least a male class with all the new ones being released over the past couple of years. But that complaint aside, the Valkyrie is awesome. Only Castanic women can be a Valkyrie – a massive polearm wielding melee fighter.