Everyone has a fighting chance
During the heady days of post-Azeroth consumer boom and investor interest, the MMORPG was booming. So many new games… and so many that didn’t meet expectations of consumers or investors. Now, 11 years after the launch of World of Warcraft, it’s clearer now than ever before: we need a hero to save us from extinction.
ESTsoft has announced that the next major update for Cabal 2 will be called "Challenge Mode" that pits players against ever-increasingly difficult waves of monsters in an effort to score a spot on the new leader boards. These challenges will see players in familiar dungeons, but ones filled with new twists and challenges.
With the commencement of the limited "limited alpha" that includes VIPs, streaming notables, members of the games press, and some rank-and-file players, the information about the World of Warcraft: Legion expansion has flooded out the gate. Blizzard places no limits on its alpha players and, in fact, encourages them to stream game play, write about it, post impressions and screenshots and much more.
The Blizzard corporate web site has been updated with three key positions on the World of Warcraft team: Art Director, Assistant Art Director and Lead Producer. Currently, Chris Robinson is the Art Director and John Lagrave is currently listed as the Lead Producer for WoW. Whether these two are moving internally to other Blizzard projects will remain to be seen.
Heroes of the Storm players have a new battleground to explore thanks to today’s release of the Towers of Doom. Blizzard describes it as a "tug-of-war" style fight. From today through December 1st, Quick Match, Ranked and Vs AI are limited to six maps, one of which is Towers of Doom. After December 1st, all regular maps will return to the rotation.
Several World of Warcraft community members, including a few of the admins at WoWhead, are reporting that their invites to the Legion beta have arrived.
Homestead is a new feature coming to League of Angels that will allow players, as the name implies, to create their own patch of heaven, complete with city building mechanics and the ability to grow a community starting with the player’s own family.
Citadel Studios has announced that the pre-alpha for Shards Online will kick off on December 3rd for $75 backers, December 10th for anyone backing the game at $40+. Servers will be up 24/7 for the duration of the pre-alpha event with no wipes.
On Tuesday, November 24th, Continent of the Ninth Seal will be updated with the Ancient Arena content expansion. New conent includes a new PvP tournament system, a new competitive PvE dungeon, both complete with new gear and rewards.
Lest anyone be left out of the Black Friday madness that grips the world after the American Thanksgiving, Bethesda has announced that it will be putting tons of things up for sale on the Elder Scrolls Online store beginning on Wednesday, November 25th.