Everyone has a fighting chance
This week, The Secret World players will get a chance to sink their fangs into the first part of Issue 12: The Dark Tower Below, the next expansion in The Secret World’s roughly biannual update schedule. With a focus on challenging group content and tidying up some of the loose ends in The Secret World’s design, Issue 12 feels pretty substantial. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peek of that content, and I came away very impressed.
With the Imperial City, we’re getting a look at some of the new districts coming to the DLC. Zenimax released a guide to the new areas, with each faction’s base operating out of different districts. With bases of operations, especially ones with distinct theming, even as the game demands functional similarity, The Elder Scrolls Online is taking another step in distinguishing itself that should also carry over in another promise for upcoming content: housing.
Kotaku has a new interview with Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts with some informative answers to questions about the game’s delay. It may be remembered that developers were targeting a November 2014 release date. Nearly a year past that hoped-for date, many have started to question Roberts’ about where the nearly $90M in crowd fund dollars has gone.
The Crowfall team has released the latest in a series of videos to spotlight archetypes that will be included in the game. The subject of the latest combat animations and powers preview is the mighty Legionnaire. Check it out!
Ginno Games and HanGame have parted ways for publishing Devilian Online in Korea. As of September 21st, HanGame will shut down the Korean version of Devilian, with all user data handed back to Ginno Games pending finding a new publisher and relaunching the game.
Blizzard has deployed the NA version of the latest Heroes of the Storm update that includes the Diablo 3 monk, Kharazim. In addition, new Dynamic Bundles have been placed in the item shop and ranked play alterations.
I don’t remember much about the Albion Online booths exterior. I can’t. It’s all drowned out in a shared memory with the team from Sandbox Interactive GmbH. Someone is playing a trailer of some description. We’re trying to talk about a medieval sandbox MMO. All we can hear is someone insisting voiciferously that we should "Come to mama!"
On August 29th, anyone interested in helping the Das Tal development team test the game are invited to do so in a special event in which new enemy AI will take center stage after a series of improvements to the feature. The event will take place at 11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern.
The Destiny team will be on hand for a special live stream event on Wednesday, August 19th during which they will explore the way characters will grow more powerful when The Taken King expansion launches.
Several well-known names in the gaming industry have banded together to bring forth Fig, a video game only funding platform. former Double Fine COO Justin Bailey, with broad members Brian Fargo (CEO inXile), Feargus Urquhart (CEO Obsidian) and Tim Schafer (CEO Double Fine) gives backers and those seeking funding traditional opportunities (rewards etc.) like KickStarter, but also the chance for investment.