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ArenaNet has announced that players who scored a portal to the Heart of Maguuma during the special event held recently in certain locations within the game will be invited to the closed beta for the Guild Wars 2 expansion Heart of Thorns. Players are reminded to keep an eye out on their email for special instructions.
ArcheAge is teasing players with the news of the Rumrunner’s Rapids event that will be ongoing this summer. During the event, players will be able to face off against one another in raft races to earn tokens to trade in for summer-themed items and prizes.
Neocore Games has announced that the final act in the three part story of Van Helsing has launched on Steam. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III brings to a close the story, with all three parts launching on this very day. To celebrate the game’s release, Neocore has sent out a brand new trailer. Check it out!
The Summer Producer’s Letter has been published on the Lord of the Rings Online forum to give players a forward look at the happenings of the next several months.
Daybreak Game Company has announced that the Everquest progression server, Ragefire, has reopened. The server will run alongside current servers, but players will be able to experience the game as it was at launch in 1999 and as expansions launched over the years.
Cryptic has announced that Aron Eisenburg, aka Captain Nog from Deep Space Nine, will be joining the cast of Star Trek Online to take the fight to the Iconians. Eisenburg joins Robert McNeill and Lisa LoCicero who are also bringing their iconic characters into the game.
Victor discusses some new videos as the hype train for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward chugs along. Today’s talk is less of me talking and more of you folks watching a bunch of videos. To wit, there are actually four videos we’ve got in store for you today with regard to Heavensward, so we’ll start with the order they’ve been presented in YouTube, save for this one video that’s already been shown in a previous news release.
Financial schemers on console have figured out a way to gain about 100,000 Crowns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It takes about an hour and comes via an exploit that can be seen as somewhat tedious, but that can net some big bucks from virtual NPCs.
Over the past three months I’ve played a lot of revamped, rebooted, or High Definition, upgrades of classic JRPGs. Some of them were for reviews, Xenoblade Chronicles, Soul Survivor Devil Breaker Vol 2, and another was just for fun, Final Fantasy Type-0. This week continues the reboot trend with Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster Limited Edition for the Playstation 4. At the risk of spoiling the rest of the review Final Fantasy X / X-2 has by far been the best of the bunch.
J. Todd Coleman has penned a new article on the Crowfall site that details the Centaur Archetype that will be included in the game. Coleman explains his lifelong fascination with Centaurs and its history in all games he has worked on prior to Crowfall.