Everyone has a fighting chance
World of Warcraft is celebrating a fantastic cultural phenomenon today by remembering everyone’s favorite charge into battle moment: LEEEEROY JENKINS! It was such a brilliantly funny moment that perfectly captured the grace and strategy of WoW raiding that Blizzard even named a pair of achievements after the erstwhile player (both classic and modern versions) after the erstwhile player. Those finishing the achievement are granted the "Jenkins" title.
A love-letter to super sentai television series like Power Rangers, Chroma Squad is a tactical RPG bursting at the seams with colorful characters, an insane premise, and a surprisingly robust combat system. Capturing the true spirit of Saturday morning cartoons, Behold Studios’ latest adventure is a testament to the fact that fun comes first, and despite a few flaws, Chroma Squad is first and foremost a ton of fun.
In preparation for an upcoming livestream with the developers of Wakfu, I logged into the game in the hopes of touching up on my skills. Wakfu can be challenging for casual players, with abilities and systems that often need to be played with a lot in order to understand them. One of the coolest aspects of the game – other than its original setting, artwork, systems and animations — is its turn-based combat.
Das Tal has come a long way since my preview of it last year. Fairytale Distillery’s vision and approach for it is ambitious, with the goal of offering an accessible but hardcore sandbox MMO experience that focuses on PvP, crafting, and skill-based combat. From what I’ve seen so far, Fairytale looks to be on the right track.
Guild Wars 2 players will want to keep eyes on email thanks to the news that invites for the Desert Borderlands WvW stress testing are being sent out. Initially few in number, ArenaNet promised to raise the number as time goes on.
The Trove site has been updated with a pair of articles to show off some of the new features coming in the Monster Bash update later this month.
Echo of Soul, an upcoming Korean MMO developed by Nvius and published by Aeria Games. The good news is that if you’re looking for a unique, engaging, and exciting MMO to dump dozens or even hundreds of hours into, there are lots of options out there to pick from. The bad news is that Echo of Souls is not one of them. As several of us pointed out in impressions pieces from the Closed Beta, it’s not really a good game, but it’s not really a bad game either. It’s just kind of… there.
Dynamic Events are a large and important concept in Guild Wars 2. They’ve helped bring players together, and showed us that a game world could feel alive. But like any other young concept, there is definitely room for growth. And what better way to see dynamic events taken to the next level than through an expansion?
This week we talk about the ever exciting subscription numbers, new Patch 6.2 features and the next Warcraft hero to appear in Heroes of the Storm.
German developer Vidiludi announced this week that its survival MMO Immune (now available via Steam’s Early Access) is getting a new Karma system that rewards friendly players by making them immune to PvP damage.