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During last night’s BAFTA ceremony, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts revealed the target timeline for each of the game’s components to be released. Star Citizen is a four-games-in-one creation that includes a persistent first person universe, a single player campaign, space exploration and combat and an FPS component. If all goes according to plan, Star Citizen should be in final release in 2016.
Jagex Games Studios has announced the release of Runelabs, an evolved feature built on the Player Power initiative launched at the end of 2013. With Runelabs, players can submit ideas for RuneScape and have those ideas voted upon by the community for possible inclusion in the game.
If SOE had simply said, "Hey. We’ve got this really cool feature in airdrops. These are our plans. What do you think?" the message it eventually got would have been loud and clear and the crisis would have been averted.
A lot of people have been loudly championing the idea that MMOs are a dying breed and that the golden era marked by World of Warcraft, Ultima Online, EverQuest, EverQuest 2, EVE Online and others is over. Yet developers, both ‘big house’ and indies alike, continue to make MMOs and players keep playing them.
BMCO, also known as Bionic Marine Command Online, has been selected for the Steam Greenlight campaign. Fans of the fantasy steampunk genres will want to check it out as the game is described as a mash up of several different game types.
Gazillion Entertainment has announced that Winter Soldier will be breezing into Marvel Heroes 2015 later this month and is already available for preorder via the game’s official site. David Hayter, best known as Solid Snake in Metal Gear, will provide the voice overs for Winter Soldier.
ArenaNet has big plans for PAX South with a special presentation hosted by Jennifer Hale that will surely shed some light on the expected Guild Wars 2 expansion announcement. The event is to take place on Saturday, January 24th at 8:30 a.m. PST / 11:30 p.m. EST and will feature studio president and co-founder Mike O’Brien and game director Colin Johanson.
For the better part of a decade I played MMORPG’s almost exclusively. I would sprinkle in the smash hit from other genres that came along but chances are if you caught me playing a game it was a MMORPG. I was also a sheep for the PC master race campaign. Over the past year I have quickly evolved into something else. Probably something I should have been all along.
So here we are, as reported earlier, The Elder Scrolls Online will be rebranded as he Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited as of March 17th on PC, with the console versions released in June under the same format. Buying the game will allow access to the full content released before the rebranding, and "downloadable content" will be included with the now optional subscription.
Fast forward to our modern world and the team at Otherside is working on Underworld Ascent as a new RPG which will bring back the game in a new version for fans. Paul talked about what it was like working on the game in the past. He also sheds some light on the new project and gives RPG fans something to look forward too.