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Though speculation has begun with the trademarking of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, little else beyond the name is known. That may end, however, on January 24th at PAX South and the main stage presentation to be given by ArenaNet co-founder Mike O’Brien and Game Director Colin Johanson. According to a press release, the pair will reveal what lies beyond the cliff hanger presented at the end of the latest living story update, Point of No Return.
The news about the new version of Nintendo’s 3DS squeaked out a bit early but that’s OK, especially given today’s news that Xenoblade Chronicles is headed to the platform as early as this April.
Busy little dataminers have been combing through the World of Warcraft v6.1 patch that is currently live on the public test realm. Among expected new items, quests and achievements, is the interesting tidbit that Twitter integration will be included, new video display options, and that Garona will become a player’s legendary companion.
After roughly 10 months of alpha, Blizzard officially moved Heroes of the Storm into closed beta yesterday, and the update included a couple of new features and pieces of content among the expected round of tweaks and bug fixes. We spent some time with the beta version of the game and today we’re offering our first impressions of all the new goodies.
Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios have announced that the long-awaited Neverwinter XBox One closed beta is scheduled for February 5-8, 2015. The team is inviting interested XBox One players to head to the official Neverwinter site to sign up as a potential tester.
WildStar Product Director Mike Donatelli has posted a manifesto of sorts on behalf of the development team as it looks to the future in 2015. The letter to fans and players lays out the focus for the team for the balance of the year.
In which Ian and Andy discuss how to keep gamers coming back for more delicious story nuggets over the course of hours or years.
At the end of December Zenimax announced what players are going to receive when the champion system is released, 30 champion points. If you had at least one character veteran rank 1 or higher you’d receive 30 champion points when 1.6 goes live. It doesn’t matter if you’ve spent the last 9 months playing the same veteran 14 character, or even had eight veteran rank 14 characters, you’d still receive 30 champion points. As you can see there is a major flaw in this.
The EVE Online Proteus update has been deployed and players can now begin exploring the changes made to the game in the form of graphical enhancements, new mining locations, rebalanced recon ships and more.
Gaijin Entertainment has released over fifty pieces of music from War Thunder. The music has been split into two albums, Ground Forces and Air Forces and can be purchased at a wide variety of online retailers for approximately $10 per album.