General: Active Worlds – A Nearly Abandoned Digital World

What happens when an MMO dies but no one turns the lights off? Youtube personality ‘vinesauce’ decided to find out during a recent live stream event attended by over 6,000 viewers. Entering the mid-90s MMO “Active Worlds”, vinesauce found the place to be, as Kotaku put it, a “digital graveyard” but for the lone exception of a single other player “Hitomi Fujiko”.

Escape from Tarkov: First Alpha Live Stream on April 2nd

Dying to get a look at Escape from Tarkov? If so, April 2nd is your lucky day as the team will be taking to the EoT Twitch.tv channel to spend ninety minutes streaming the alpha version of the game. Project Lead Nikita Buyanov and Alexander Kovalchuk will be hosting the event on April 2nd at 11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern.

Skyforge: Reapers of Death Invasion Now Live

Skyforge players with access to their Divine Forms are invited to check out the Reapers of Death invasion that is now live in game. Players can send out pair of Adepts on two special missions that kick off every eight hours, one rewarding Gifts and Faith Points, the other Victor’s Medals which allow the purchase of special items in the Invasion section of the marketplace.

World of Warcraft: Legion Alpha – Revitalizing Group Play & Class Fantasies?

While the World of Warcraft: Legion alpha — well, technically it’s still called that, though the servers say beta but that’s just nitpicking — has introduced testers to a lot of new features, zones, the Demon Hunter and some of the lore behind the expansion, those things pale in comparison to the new way of playing that most will encounter both in PvE and in PvP.

General: Updating a Classic – Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Preview

In recent weeks we have heard that Blizzard is patching Diablo 2 and Warcraft (not World of Warcraft). It continues to be true that quality old games never die and Baldur’s Gate is no exception. The game was one of the most fun RPGs in the 1990s (published in 1998). With recent success on mobile platforms and a resurgence in isometric RPGs it is no surprise that Siege of Dragonspear is coming out for fans.