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Daybreak’s John Smedley took to the H1Z1 Reddit to give players insight into what the team has been working on and will be working towards in the future. Among other things, Smed promised a large number of new features, continued attention on bug fixes, smarter, better zombie AI, ongoing building of a ‘massive world’ (up to 16,000 square km) and more. Smedley also revealed that the development team is growing to keep up with these, what he intimates, very realistic goals.
The lore and the story behind any new game is one of the best parts of the time leading up to its release. With that said, the Crowfall site has been updated with a new post to give lore hounds a lot of great reading material about The Confessor archetype.
Console players around the world can now log in and play Elder Scrolls Online now that launch day has officially arrived. Both XBox One and PlayStation 4 owners are invited to try out the game via respective download sites.
Creative Director and one of the founding members of Obsidian Entertainment, Chris Avellone, has posted via Twitter that he has left the company after twelve years. Avellone has been instrumental to Obsidian’s success with Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity.
CD Projekt Red has announced that sales of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have exceeded four million copies in the two weeks since release.
According to a forum post on the Skyforge site, it is very possible that open beta will hit sometime in July. According to Community Manager ‘Spunky’, there will be one more closed beta event prior to the commencement of the open beta.
The ARK: Survival Evolved Steam page has been updated with a big post that gives players and fans a heads up on a new screenshot contest as well as a forward look at a large update coming on Friday, June 12th.
The Sword Coast Legends site has been updated with the release date. Fans of the forthcoming D&D-based title can look forward to September 8th when the game becomes available.
On Wednesday, June 3, RPG fans were treated to their first official look at Fallout 4. There’s no feature list, in-game footage, or release date, but pre-orders are already open. Is pre-ordering now really a good idea?
MMOs aren’t what they used to be in both good ways and bad. This week in Player Versus Player, we look at MMO storytelling and how every player is the hero. We call it, "The God Complex" and ask, are we losing the core of MMORPGs because of it?