Blade & Soul players will want to check out today’s big update now that the Vengeance Breaks patch has been successfully deployed. There are three new heroic dungeons, Silverfrost Mountains: Act 4, Part 2, the Tower of Infinity, and Hongmoon level 15 to look forward to in addition to the brand new pet system.
General: Hostile Takeover of Gameloft Complete, Vivendi Eyes Ubisoft
After years of quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, buying up any shares of Gameloft, Vivendi finally has become the majority owner of the mobile games company. Alongside the Gameloft purchases, Vivendi has also been making moves on Ubisoft by purchasing available stocks from shareholders at an inflated price that ‘encourages’ them to sell. The Guillemot brothers run Ubisoft and have been scrambling to secure agreements from shareholders to keep more Ubi stocks out of Vivendi hands.
Guild Wars 2: Every Group Needs a Name – Your Chance to Create History
As Pact Leader, Guild Wars 2 players have battled alongside iconic characters including Rytlock, Marjory, Braham, Kasmeer, Rox and Taimi. The group wants to stay together but they need a great name for the entire bunch. ArenaNet needs your help to think of one — a name will be selected from each represented language and it will appear in the next Living World Update and the only way to learn what the new name will be is to play the game.
General: ‘Ridiculous to Dedicate an Entire Room to VR Gaming’
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, speaking at the Cowen & Company Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, has said that there are too many impediments to VR gaming in the current state of the world and that it’s “ridiculous to think the average home in America would dedicate an entire room to VR gaming”.
Atlas Reactor: Play for Free This Weekend
Trion Worlds has announced that from June 3rd through June 5th, everyone is invited to come play Atlas Reactor for free. You can head to the Atlas Reactor site to sign up and get started when the client rolls out on Friday.
General: Game On #84 | Overwatched
This week on Game On, Chris and Brax sit down to discuss a week dominated by Overwatch, but that’s not all! They also discuss Battleborn’s immediate $20 price cut, No Man’s Sky’s latest delay, Fallout 4: Far Harbor, Funcom’s life saving investment, and the Warcraft movie. Small correction: the Smite controversy was about Hindu deities. Not Buddha. Our bad.
Kings and Heroes: First Impressions of the Ambitious New Online RPG
Kings and Heroes came out of nowhere. Sporting beautiful traditional fantasy visuals, a first person perspective, and loads of ambition, Industry Games’ premiere development effort went into Early Access on Steam yesterday. We’ve sat down and explored the rough-around-the-edges game to find out whether its ambition is matched by talent or just hollow promises.
General: GoG Connect Allows Some Non-DRM Steam Games to be Added
GoG Connect is a new feature at Good Old Games that allows players to add non-DRM restricted Steam games to their GoG collection. This is not open to all Steam non-DRM titles, but there is an impressive list that you can check to see which of your Steam games qualifies. The offer is a limited time one from several publishers and developers including Deep Silver, Harebrained Schemes, TaleWorlds and more.
Black Desert Online: New Tier 6 & 7 Horses + Simple Alchemy & Cooking Changes
The latest Black Desert Online patch maintenance is complete and brings a couple of interesting new features into the game among the bug fixes and store updates.
Overwatch: Competitive Play to be Delayed According to @PlayOverwatch
According to the @PlayOverwatch Twitter account, competitive play, once thought to be headed to gamers in June, is now coming later in July. If so, it will mark the second time that competitive play has been delayed — first taken out of the release version and now for up to a month after it was said to be coming out in June.