Everyone has a fighting chance
ESTSoft has announced that the next update to Cabal 2 will arrive on September 10th and will feature a brand new pair of battle arenas and a new reward system for top ranked players. Called "Trial of Champions", the new arenas will require players to be level ten to enter and then to choose between a monster arena or a PvP arena.
CD Projekt Red has announced that the Hearts of Stone expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be released on October 13th. The expansion will feature ten additional hours of game play as well as a new system called Runewords that developers feel will significantly affect game play.
After putting all the news bits in a sock, shaking them up and pulling one out I got "newsletter" so that is what I’ll focus on today. I don’t think it’s possible for me to cover the entire thing (it’s packed) so I’ll just hand pick a few of the tasty bits. Firstly is the Melee Combat Demo. That demo is exactly what I hoped it would be. Real, physical, tactically visual and VERY exciting.
Aeria Games wants to unleash 100+ Dragomon on the gaming world and to do so have released a brand new Dragomon Hunter video to introduce some of the monsters that will be populating the free to play game on launch.
NCSoft has announced that the Blade & Soul closed beta is getting ready to rock the fan community when the first event kicks off on October 30th. A minimum of five weekend beta events will be held over the course of at least twenty days. Even better for excited fans is the news that Blade & Soul will be launching in Q1 2016.
From the makers of Shadowrun Returns comes another RPG that was originally created in the 80s but will get a new cRPG treatment. Harebrained Schemes plans on launching a Kickstarter for Battletech soon. Read on to find out what they had to say about this RPG about big robots and their human pilots.
MMORPG.com has partnered with Reality Squared Games to bring an exciting open beta gift key offer to our community for the new fantasy based browser MMORPG – Winterfrost! Fight alongside mighty mercenaries to avenge your ancestors in our brand new and unique fantasy MMORPG! Do you have what it takes to melt the ice and set fire to your foes?
This year at PAX Square Enix made available Masayoshi Soken to the press. Read on to find out what he had to say to Rob Lashley about being the Sound Director for one of the most iconic RPG franchises in video game history.
Of all the games I played at Pax Prime this year, Divinity: Original Sin 2 was hands down the best. Don’t get me wrong, I played a lot of amazing things, but playing alongside Swen Vincke, founder of Larian Studios, things couldn’t have gone more wrong in our demo. And I am so glad they did.
High up on floor six of the Washington State Convention Center, Rob Lashley, got some hands on time with the new ARPG from Spearhead Games, Stories: The Path of Destinies. Read on for his first impressions.