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The Bethesda blog has been updated with a brand new Elder Scrolls Online video from the community to celebrate the game’s first anniversary. Check it out below and leave your thoughts in the comments along with some of your "best of" moments from the past year in Tamriel.
In a new interview with PC Gamer, Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart revealed that a Pillars of Eternity expansion is already underway and that the team wants to "be there" as players finish up a first and perhaps even second play through within the next couple of weeks to a month. In addition, Urquhart revealed for the first time that a tabletop version of Pillars of Eternity is in the works.
Square Enix is teasing a new game being developed by one of its Western studios and has posted a rather cryptic image on its Twitter page. The news about the title will be slowly revealed over three days in an "interactive" format. The first information about the new game is set to come to light today on Square Enix’s Twitch.tv channel, though no specific time has been announced.
While there may be a bevy of solid games going on many years of service to the MMO space, we’re humans. And that means we’re always looking for something bigger, better, and newer to hang our hopes for perfection upon. So today’s quest is a simple one: what upcoming MMO are you anxiously waiting for, and why?
The Rift team has announced that players will be able to participate in a brand new Instant Adventure in Hammerknell when the next update goes live. According to a developer blog on the Rift site, Hammerknell and overall improvements to the Instant Adventure feature have made it possible for the event to contain more interesting objectives, both combat and non-combat.
Pillars of Eternity is a game that does a lot of things right for not only its genre, but in general. MMOs and other types of games across our industry could learn a thing or two from what Obsidian has delivered to use in 2015. It’s a game that’s equal parts nostalgic and fresh, both approachable and challenging, and above all else, immensely engaging.
I’ve certainly not hidden the fact that I love the new age zone design for Guild Wars 2. It looks as if what we’ve seen in Dry Top and the Silverwastes will continue in Heart of Thorns, and I couldn’t be happier. Well, I could be happier, strictly speaking, but it’s not ArenaNet’s fault that I haven’t won the lottery yet (#&*@$ real-life RNG…).
While you can often pick up a first person shooter again a while after stopping, changes to a MOBA’s itemization/passives, abilities, hero remakes, and even simply a frequently changing meta can make returning to a MOBA a daunting task. Read on for this week’s Social Hub as to what could be done about this problem.
It’s just sad that thus far, Music Man Online is only set for Southeast Asia release, because this trailer makes it look like the best thing for show-offs since the Entertainer class in Star Wars: Galaxies.
Today, the Community Manager of the Greed Monger forums told backers the project is currently stagnant, and that owner Jason Appleton has failed to fulfill the project’s Kickstarter obligations.