Everyone has a fighting chance
The Loremageddon section of the WildStar site has been updated with a pair of new entries in the "Enemies & Allies" section. This time Mondo Zax and Deadeye Brightland, two of WildStar’s most iconic characters, have been given the star treatment of a new biography and much more. These two legends join Axis Pheydra in the ever-expanding section of Loremageddon.
Bethesda is ready to take its Elder Scrolls Online #MillionReasonsToPlay campaign to the next, and quite literal, level with the commencement of a sweepstakes with one lucky player taking home a million dollars. Beginning today, players can sign up at the special micro-site and simply play the game during the sweepstakes period that runs from December 3rd through January 10th. The lucky winner will be announced on February 1, 2016.
Snail Games has announced that the Age of Wushu mobile tie-in called "Dynasty" will launch for both iOS and Android devices in January 2016. The closed beta for Dynasty recently ended and gave developers plenty of constructive feedback for iterative improvements between now and launch day.
Super Evil Megacorp has announced that the finals of the Vainglory Autumn Season 2015 North American tournament will kick off on Friday, December 4th in the eSport Arena in Santa Ana, California. The event will be broadcast on the Vainglory Twitch channel beginning at 3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 pm Eastern. The EU Finals will take place from December 11th through the 13th in Poland.
Fifth Season AS has announced that its web-strategy title AD2460 will be going free-to-play on December 7, 2015. Breaking away from its current subscription-based revenue model, the team is in the process of preparing Patch 7 that will launch the F2P iteration.
The Albion Online team has posted a thank you to the 43,000 players that took part in the recently completed closed beta event. During that time, players submitted their feedback that will be key to driving development over the coming weeks as the team prepares for the next round of testing.
Beginning on December 10th, Blizzard will be taking Overwatch offline until January. During the intervening weeks, the team will be analyzing mountains of data and digging through player bug reports in order to bring a new and improved version to players come January.
The third wing in the League of Explorers expansion to Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has opened its doors as of today. The Ruined City pits players against scaly and slippery foes.
Players looking for a strategy role-playing experience will want to check out Tom Clancy’s EndWar Online that has officially kicked off its open beta phase of development. With the OBT, players will find a revamped PvP mode, many improvements and refinements and much more thanks to the input from alpha testers over the past year.
The Eldevin team has sent word that the latest update has been deployed that brings a bevy of new guild functionality into the game. Among other things, guild tags will be displayed, a guild bank is included, team cooperative play helps level the guild and a new guild leader interface is added.