The Chronicles of Elyria KickStarter is over 75% funded as of now and the latest update has been posted by the team. The discussion has begun to turn to ‘stretch goals’ and what those might look like. The post outlines two possible ways stretch goals could manifest: Adding new features or adding to tier rewards.
Black Desert Online: Maehwa Awakening Heading to KR Version This Week
The Korean version of Black Desert Online will be updating later this week to bring Maehwa Awakening into the game. To get players ready, a new teaser video has been released to show how it will look in game. See what you think!
Overwatch: A Guide to Defense
Overwatch is set to launch in just a couple of weeks, so we thought it might be a good idea to get you all prepared for the game’s chaotic battles by putting together a rundown of all the game’s heroes, broken down by archetype. In our second of four guides, we’ll be looking at the game’s defense characters.
General: Nvidia’s Order of 10 Challenges Players in Order to Win
Nvidia is sponsoring a new contest called “Order of 10” that provides players with ten challenges that can yield daily prizes and be entered to win an elite game ready PC that comes complete with two Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founder’s Edition GPU.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire Mandalore’s Revenge Teaser Tra
Bioware has announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire – Mandalore’s Revenge will be available to those subscribed by May 30th starting June 1st and to all SWTOR players on June 3rd. New players can sign up for Knights of the Fallen Empire during May and receive a free trial of Chapter One: The Hunt. New accounts activated by May 30th will also receive a Level 60 character.
League of Legends: Social Designer Jeffrey Lin Leaves Riot Games
Social systems designer Jeffrey Lin, most recently in charge of reducing the ‘vitriol’ in League of Legends, has departed Riot Games. In a post on TwitLonger.com, Lin thanks his friend Ghostcrawler and admitted that a passionate community makes the game better.
World of Warcraft: ‘A Collection of Minority Groups IS WoW’ Watcher Explains
In a lengthy post, and one that should be stickied on the Battle.Net World of Warcraft forums, Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas has written a most interesting post in response to players concerned about a vendor found in alpha selling items and mounts at very, very high prices. After informing the community that this vendor is not meant to be a ‘gold sink’ (that’s adequately taken care of with repairs & auction house tarifs), Hazzikostas went on to explain a fundamental feature of the game.
Crowfall: Healed to Death
A few days ago Artcraft gave us a nice preview of the Druid’s powers and UI. It’s fairly deep, especially considering how early in the development the concept is. I was excited to read about the duality mechanic and while I still love the concept, half of it didn’t quite live up to my expectations.
TERA: Secrets & Shadows Brings the Thief and Flying Mounts
By this time next Tuesday, TERA’s latest update will be upon us. Called Secrets & Shadows, the latest content update for TERA brings the new Elin Ninja class, new dungeons, new story-based quests, and yes… flying mounts. We had a chance to take a peek at the update before it hits the live servers, and came away with these thoughts.
General: Essentials Edition Announced – Tons of Content for a Bargain
Trion Worlds has announced a new Rift Essentials Edition, a new edition of the game tailor made for players who want to jump into the game and have access to all of the game’s Souls and content. Priced at $49.99, the Essentials Edition will be available to anyone until May 11th, subsequently available only to new players during their first week of game play.