Blade & Soul: Rising Waters Deploys Today

Blade & Soul players looking for more content will be happy to hear that the Rising Waters content expansion will deploy today. To show off what can be expected, the development team has posted the official patch notes.

Heroes of the Storm: Balance Update Deployed

The latest update has been deployed on Heroes of the Storm servers that bring a number of balance changes to several heroes. The group that has received the most attention is the Assassin line that includes Falstad, Jaina, Kael’thas, Nova and Thrall.

General: Rich Vogel & Gordon Walton Co-Chair Austin Game Conference

The Austin Game Conference has been dated for September 21-22, 2016 and is aiming to provide “critical insight into developing live, connected, participatory games with real-time engagement between developers, players and spectators.” Of particular interest are the co-chairs of AGC, Gordon Walton of Artcraft Entertainment and Rich Vogel of Bethesda’s BattleCry Studios.

SMITE: New EU Office Opens to Support Growing EU Community

Hi-Rez Studios has announced that it has opened a branch office in Brighton, United Kingdom to support the growing European SMITE community. The new EU team will be primarily focused on community management, localization and marketing operations with development to continue in Hi-Rez’s Atlanta, Georgia office.

Marvel Heroes 2016: Kicking Off 2016 With a Bang

Marvel Heroes recently underwent yet another rebrand and the corresponding game update was suitably massive. Now Marvel Heroes 2016, Gazillion has kicked off the New Year with a bang by introducing some long awaited additions, with even more to come.