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Essentially a prolonged paid beta, Early Access is a great tool for indies to keep the lights on as they work their way to official launch. But the newly coined development state has its own fair share of issues, chief among which is putting a clearly unfinished game out to the general public. That’s kind of where Nekro, from DarkForge Games, sits right now. It’s an Action RPG Strategy hybrid of a game with a novel setting and design, but it’s also just kind of boring to play.
Reto-Moto has announced that its World War II themed MMOFPS, Heroes & Generals, has scored over five million registered accounts worldwide. The explosive growth has taken off since H&G launched its early access program on Steam in the summer of 2014. To celebrate the big news, Reto-Moto will be giving all players a gold voucher code during the upcoming weekend.
Bitbox Ltd. is reporting that Life is Feudal, a "hardcore, medieval MMO", has been downloaded over two hundred thousand times on Steam during its current early access period of development. To celebrate the big news, Bitbox has a special Developers’ AMA scheduled on Reddit for Thursday, May 14th at 9:00 am Pacific / 12:00pm Eastern.
NCSoft’s financial results for Q1 2015 have been released and show a marked decline over Q4 2014. Guild Wars 2 is the one shining light due to excitement generated by the Heart of Thorns expansion. WildStar’s profits declined by nearly half from already dismal sales in Q4 2014.
Chris and Ryan are joined by special guest and regular Shroud of the Avatar writer, Red Thomas! Together they talk about the WoW subscription plummet, as well as dig deep into Red’s areas of expertise, Crowfall and Shroud of the Avatar. Will Crowfall pull subscribers for WoW? Is it finally time to buy into Shroud of the Avatar?
Grinding Gears has revealed that sales of Supporter Packs for the upcoming expansion, The Awakening, have exceeded expectations. Ranging in price from $30 to $1,100, players get a wide range of in-game bonuses and perks. Buyers will also be given automatic access to the closed beta phase of the expansion’s development.
Wargaming has put together a compilation video to show off the top ten moments from the recently held World of Tanks Grand Finals held in Warsaw, Poland.
Former CCP EVE developer Matt Woodward has joined the team working on the forthcoming Albion Online. Once known as CCP Greyscale, Woodward sat down on camera to talk about his hope to make Albion the best sandbox experience it can be.
If you were looking for the other side of that squishy mage coin, the one that just wants to burninate everything, well you may want to get patching, because Blizzard just released Kael’Thas the Sun King – and this guy really brings the heat.
The third in a series of articles designed to reveal the Elite Specializations coming to all classes with the Heart of Thorns expansion has debuted on the official site. This time, the Necromancer’s specialization is revealed. Called The Reaper, Necros will have the ability to wield a two-handed greatsword to become a devastating melee brawler facing off against as many foes as can be gathered.