Everyone has a fighting chance
Next week’s Gamescom is shaping up to be another massive event. Wargaming plans to be on hand with its patented ‘booth’ that features a huge variety of machines with chances to get hands on time with all of the company’s titles, particularly with this year’s centerpiece, World of Warships.
Bandai Namco has sent word that Sword Art Online RE: Hollow Fragment is delayed by one week and will be released for PlayStation 4 on August 4th. The game will feature an "improved HD version of the game" that was originally released exclusively for PlayStation Vita.
Fans of Action RPGs will want to check out the ten minutes of gameplay footage from Bombshell. Bombshell was shown off to attendees at this weekend’s QuakeCon. Bombshell is developed by Interceptor Entertainment, a studio that lent its expertise to several of the Duke Nukem titles. Bombshell is expected to be released later this year.
I was in attendance at QuakeCon in 2011 when Skyrim got its first major showing. I’m not the type to give in to hype, but I still remember being in awe of the majesty and grandeur of it all, and leaving the auditorium as excited as I could be for an upcoming game.
Recently MMORPG.com took time to sit down with Wallace Santos from Maingear Computers and Thomas Petersen from NVIDIA this past week. Part one of this video series talks about NVIDIA GameWorks program and how they are helping studios and developers make their games better. It covers every aspect of the program from building relationships, how the technology is being used, and how certain games (especially Batman Arkham Knight) are even being repaired by the GameWorks engineers.
It’s hard to believe that it’s July, and we’ve already seen a number of highly-anticipated titles release in the first half of the year. Pillars of Eternity, The Witcher 3, and Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward are all out, The Elder Scrolls Online has launched on consoles, and there have been open beta or "live" releases for Trove, Heroes of the Storm, and Skyforge.
The first big patch post-Heavensward is here, and Victor’s been trawling through it like a good little Lalafell. Let’s take a quick look at what you get with the introduction of FFXIV Patch 3.05!
The Witcher 3 received its 1.07 patch this week, bringing with it much needed inventory improvements and an alternative movement mode. Unfortunately, it also brought a brand new problem. This week, Chris takes the issue and looks at the larger problem of unfinished games and post-launch patches. Plus, a meaty Diablo 3 update, Chris Roberts responds to Star Citizen drama, new Fallout 4 gameplay, and more!
The Neverwinter team has gone on record as having heard the voices of the community about abusive behavior by some when using the ‘vote-to-kick’ feature. According to a new post on the Neverwinter site, players had been particularly abusing the system at or near the end of a boss fight effectively reducing the pool of players who would have access to drops.
The Skyforge team has posted a brief note to let North American players know that they are aware of server load issues, queues, drop outs, and "significant lag". To fight these problematic issues, server maintenance has already been completed and new upgrades will be deployed over the next several days.