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EVE Online producer CCP Seagull has sent out the team’s vision of the future for the game. In it, it is revealed that there will be expansions with meaningful content and with real impact in the game but also smaller updates sent out every five weeks.
A few months ago, Blizzard announced that 100,000 player accounts had been temporarily banned for up to six months for using bots. While arguably not actually solving the entire issue, it was a significant slap to bot users everywhere.
Trion Worlds has announced that the NDA has been lifted from participants in the Devilian alpha so that streamers and writers can now share experiences with the world. Players currently involved in the alpha have also received a code for a friend invite.
This will ruffle some feathers. The staff at MMORPG.com, from President Craig McGregor and CTO Ben Krueger, to our wonderful list of reviewers, columnists, and community managers, all the way down to your humble and lowly Managing Editor (me) have voted. We took the top player-rated games from our Game List, including those that have been closed after launch, and we ranked them. Each of us filing up our own top 35 list from greatest to least great.
Well, we can’t truthfully promise that Bill will be pwned by a Gelatinous Cube, but we can say that he will be on hand with Sword Coast Legends Community Manager Ashe Devilla during a special live stream event beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific / 9:00 pm Eastern.
Horror genre fans are no doubt acquainted with the Five Nights at Freddy’s series of games, all four of them. Wildly popular, the series is even being made into a film by Warner Bros. Series creator Scott Cawthon is ready to branch out and is taking the setting, if not the game play, to RPGs as he announced on the Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 Steam community page yesterday.
RPG Files is back from its two week break, and Chris dives deep into Divinity: Original Sin 2 and how it’s shaping up to be one of the most revolutionary RPGs in years.
The Steparu team has prepared a new preview for the final Korean closed beta event for Bless as it gets underway. The author wonders if Bless can truly be considered an action-MMORPG, as in built from the ground up to be so, or if the "action" part was added as an afterthought.
The Neverwinter team will be hosting a special live stream Q&A with R.A. Salvatore, author of some of the most iconic books based in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. Neverwinter’s next expansion will be sending players into the Underdark, home of Drizzt Do’Urden. Mr. Salvatore has written an entire quest line that will be featured in the Underdark.
The Roccat team is starting a new Twitch.tv program that will take place every two weeks and that will feature both industry and Roccat community leaders. The inaugural event will take place on Friday, September 18th at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern with members of the "world’s best World of Warcraft guild", Method.