General: Two of Three Troika Founders Land at Obsidian

Diablo 3 World Designer Leonard Boyarsky has left Blizzard and joined Obsidian Entertainment. Prior to his tenure with Blizzard, Boyarsky worked on the Fallout series at Interplay, then moved on to co-found Troika where he was the game director on Vampire: The Masquerade.

General: Consortium: The Tower Reaches Funding Goal

Consortium: The Tower has reached its $300,000 initial funding goal with another twenty-eight days to go. The team has now moved on from the base goal to stretch goals, the first of which is Equipment Engineering. Consortium: The Tower is being created by the original Consortium team and is backed by one of Bioware’s founders, Dr. Greg Zeschuk.

Rift: The Celebration of the Ascended Begins Today

Rift’s 3.6 update, Celebration of the Ascended, launches today on April 13th, and were fortunate enough to get an early look at all that’s being crammed into this patch: five new souls (one for each calling), tons of new Carnival of the Ascended events and rewards, new planar attunement unlocks, new mounts, and yes full multicore support!

Thundercall: Open Beta Gift Packs

MMORPG.com has been given special gift packs for Thunder Call – the new fantasy MMORPG from Reality Squared Games. These keys will give you items such as Goddess Tears, Satchels, Roses and much more. Get your key now!

ArcheAge: Auction House Mergers to Expand Amount of Sales

The ArcheAge site has been updated with an important notice to players that auction house mergers are incoming. Prior to the merger process, players will not have the ability to post new auctions for approximately two days (49 hours, but who’s counting?). Once the time has passed, all existing auctions will have expired and the merger process can begin.

SMITE: Jing Wei Goddess Giveaway

MMORPG.com has been given special gift keys for the PC version of SMITE that will give players the all new Jing Wei Goddess, as well as her alternate color skin “Reborn!” Get your free gift key now while supplies last!