Welcome to the latest Path of Exile: The Exiled Tribune and another great week to be part of a great ARPG. We had a chance for a bit of a post-mortem with Grinding Gear about the recent 2.6.0 patch and have a wrap up of the week’s news.
The Dwarves – Free Update Brings Three New Game Modes
Fans of The Dwarves will be pleased to hear that the game has been updated with a big patch that brings three new game modes in. Called “Challenges”, players can take part in Horde, Time Challenge and Chase modes.
Chronicles of Elyria – PAX East 2017 – A Chat with Jeromy Walsh
This weekend we took time to sit with the Chronicles of Elyria and go through some of their steps to break down development of the game. The team is moving forward and had a fantastic booth at the show. With any MMO in development, it is a process and Chronicles has been very transparent with their fans. Jeromy Walsh and Director of Production, Vye Alexander gave us a break down of where the game is moving and how quickly their team is expanding.
Atlas Reactor – Rift’s Defiant Asha Catari to Become Next Freelancer
Atlas Reactor will be getting a visit from Rift’s Asha Catari when she arrives as the game’s next Freelancer. While her Atlas Reactor character will look a bit different, there is no question that this sword-wielding Freelancer is Rift’s Defiant heroine. By all reports, her AR fighting-style will be very similar to how she battles in Rift.
Guild Wars 2 – Digging Up the Past
Guild Wars 2 gets praise for a lot things, but none strikes new players to the game more than the vastness in the open world of Tyria. As the game has aged, many of the bigger open stories that have been created within this world have been collecting dust. That is, until Living World Season 3. This season has seen a massive return to the unanswered plots of the game, and for a veteran player, has been both its biggest success and its biggest danger. THAR BE SPOILERS AHEAD – YE BE WARNED!
Project Genom – Optimizations, World Additions & Female Armor Models Added
The latest weekly Project Genom newsletter has been published to inform the community about the tasks the team has been working on in the most recent days. This week’s is packed with information including the update to the latest Unreal Engine and big network improvements that will help improve performance and reactivity of the game.
World of Tanks – Do Dailies, Earn a Free Tier VIII Medium Vehicle
From now through March 27th, World of Tanks players who complete thirteen daily quests will earn a free T25 Pilot, a tier VIII medium “tank menace”. The vehicle can also be unlocked via the WoT Premium Shop incrementally or all at once.
– PAX Prime 2017 – En Masse Talks TERA & Kritika
This week at PAX East I got a chance to speak to the guys from En Masse about their Tera announcement and their upcoming foray into the MMO scene, Kritika Online. As you might have heard, Tera is coming to consoles.
– Heroes Of Incredible Tales Adds Dungeons & Multiplayer
NAT Games and Nexon have released a new update for Heroes of Incredible Tales (HIT) that brings a trio of new co-op dungeons, armor and weapon upgrades, a new craftable accessory and Seal Defense Battles.
Heroes & Generals – Performance Improvements Added In New Update
Reto-Moto has published an interesting look at the recent deployment of the “Engine Room” update. Improvements have been made in the way rendering place and how the engine utilizes CPU cores. As the result, around 20% frame-rate improvement has been noted by the tester pool. In addition, the team announced that they ended support for DirectX 9 based GPUs.