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Whitebox Interactive has announced that its hybrid MOBA-shooter, Warhammer 40K: Dark Nexus Arena, will be ready for Steam early access beginning on December 9th. The game has been in closed beta testing since May and the development team has made several key alterations in gameplay, including the removal of "lane" styled battle in favor of a more literally open battlefield.
The latest world to enter the Spiral has officially opened up in Wizard101. Polaris is now open, a frozen world for players to explore to help save Bartleby, who has fallen ill. Players of level 100+ who have completed the requisite quests can journey to Polaris and work to level 110 while there.
The Vainglory team has posted a new blog about several important eSports milestones achieved in the game’s first year on iOS devices. Among other things, Twitch audiences for eSports matches rose to 1M in September alone as well as Nvidia and the Amazon Appstore co-sponsoring the Autumn Season 2015 live finals.
An inside look at the many coders who have implemented their work into the game and how those early code threads have evolved with the game (e.g., Legacy of the Baby Dragon). Here to shed some light on the franchise’s evolution is Jennifer Chan (Technical Director) and Terry Michaels (Senior Producer) from Daybreak Games.
You ever get so into ripping off a finger nail that minutes go by but you don’t notice? We all know no matter how careful we are its going to hurt tomorrow but we can’t stop! That is sort of how I feel when I click the browser icon after things happen. Because we all know in this era whenever a thing happens staunch opinions aren’t far behind. Lots of things both in and out of the CUniverse have been happening lately.
The Star Wars: The Old Republic forums are afire with the nerf to companion damage and healing outputs that arrived with yesterday’s patch. Bioware’s Eric Musco took to the forum to explain why alterations in companions’ base stats and damage/healing reductions were necessary, a post that has generated an astonishing fifty-one pages of angry posts from players.
Daybreak Game Company has announced that the twenty-second EverQuest expansion, The Broken Mirror, is expected to launch later today, Wednesday, November 18th. Players can look forward to four expansion zones, three reworked zones as well as a pair of "scalable" raids among other things.
Cabal Online will be undergoing a massive update today that will bring new ways to PvP with other players. Included in the "Art of War" update, players will find new areas and dungeons with "elite difficulty" as well as a new PvP battle arena to prove prowess in battle.
One of the challenges of working on an MMO as long lasting as the EverQuest franchise is decisions made today may still be having effects to the game 10 years down the line. And with a total of 53 game programmers who’ve worked on EQ2 so far, there have been many different cooks adding ingredients to the codebase that’s the heart of the game.
Nearly a year after the game’s announcement, the Crowfall team is one of the busiest in the MMO game space with regular updates and packed with community involvement. ArtCraft is excited to talk about all that’s happened over the intervening months since the Crowfall project began and we’re pleased to host this exclusive developer Q&A.