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The DC Universe Online site has been updated with a first look at a new system that will be coming to the game: R&D Gear. Essentially, R&D gives players the opportunity to salvage unwanted gear and to use components gained to enhance gear via R&D Plans.
Gaijin is enlisting the support of the War Thunder playerbase in determining which package of items will be most deeply discounted in the store in preparation for the game’s third anniversary. In addition, the team has big plans for gifts, special events and much more beginning on November 1st, War Thunder’s birthday.
My.com, the Allods Team and Obsidian Entertainment have recently stated that they have at least two significant updates planned for the balance of 2015. Making the first step to meeting that goal, the development team has announced that the next major patch will land on November 12th and will feature some brand new content sure to interest the community.
Sandbox Interactive is pleased to announce that Albion Online will be entering its next big phase of development with the start of closed beta testing on November 23rd. Legendary Founders will gain access on November 23rd with Epic Founders joining in on November 24th and Veteran Founders entering on November 25th.
Paradox has confirmed that it has purchased White Wolf and all properties from CCP, developers of EVE Online. This includes both World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade. While nothing has yet been said beyond the confirmation of the buyout, it is possible that this could lead to a revival of WoD and new life for the Vampire series.
A month following WildStar’s free-to-play conversion, columnist Gareth "Gazimoff" Harmer looks at some of the good and bad that’s surfaced since the switch.
n-Space President Dan Tudge has published a State of the Game letter on the Sword Coast Legends site that both addresses some of the most recent concerns raised by the community and announces the forthcoming release of several free DLC packages starting with a Halloween release later this week.
Last week N-Space and Digital Extremes launched Sword Coast Legends the top down RPG spiritual successor to the great Black Isle games of yesteryear. Read on for Rob’s impressions of the game and that genre in 2015.
Trion Worlds has been quietly working away on Atlas Reactor, the next competitive game with a decidedly different take on the shooter genre. Touting "simultaneous turn-based gameplay" as its core, the term can sometimes lead to a head-scratching moment of incomprehension. To help show off how interesting and truly different this style is, Trion has released a new video to show exactly what it means and how it will play out.
My favorite moment of EVE Vegas 2015 was the swell of the crowd when the first new doomsday weapon was shown to the audience that had travelled around the world to pack themselves into the Planet Hollywood conference center. As the laser beam charged, you could sense a spike in tension that, as the beam finally exploded forward and began cleaving a path across the sky, erupted into applause and excitement as fans cheered and screamed.