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Red 5 has put up a teaser page for the forthcoming Firefall update scheduled to hit live service next week. Called "Together Toward Victory", the update will deliver new open world events and instanced adventures outside the normal campaign missions. Together Toward Victory is expected to go live on November 18th.
ArenaNet is paving the way for players on their journey through Guild Wars 2. The next episode in Season 2 is called "Tangled Path" and is teased in the latest video released by the GW2 team.
Carbine Studios and NCSoft have announced that the latest WildStar update, Mystery of the Genesis Prime, will be released later today. The update is focused primarily on lore but also introduces high level players to a new zone, quests and adventures.
Timing is everything. The last time in this space, I wrote about The Elder Scrolls Online rebounding from mistakes and negative first impressions moving forward. Since that was published, a major error happened with the latest round of patching, causing discrepancies between what was supposed to be included and what actually made it to the live server, as well as additional bugs, and, for a time, major login errors.
Today we’re discussing the tone of our game’s story. Tone is one of the hardest things to define for a game, especially before you start writing. Everyone can sit down, talk about touchstones, and agree on a target, but at the end of the day, tone is something that develops during the creation process, not something you just decide to do in advance.
While I won’t go as far as to say it usually happens, neither is it uncommon that when I look back at the recent past in order to decide what to write about, I end up with unanswered or unanswerable questions. This is at least partly due to how my mind works in relation to the MMOG space; I seldom take what I see or hear at face value. Some of the titles I’ve had cause to wonder about lately are Overwatch, Dawngate, WildStar and Otherland.
The latest WildStar Loremageddon article has been published on the game’s official site. The series lays out the lore behind the game. This is the third installment specifically focused on the races in WildStar, in particular this time, the Mordesh and Draken.
This year marks EverQuest II’s tenth anniversary and Sony Online Entertainment is putting together a retrospective look at the game’s first decade. To entice people, SOE has released a teaser trailer about the documentary. Check it out!
There is no better way to begin a review of BioWare’s Dragon Age Inquisition than to say that anyone who has been hungering for a magnificently crafted role-playing game will find a place to love and in which to play for years to come. DAI stretches a player’s abilities and emotions all the way from the game’s first moments through the final epilogue following the credits, all wrapped up in some of the most visually stunning environments ever created.
XLGames is soliciting players for the second Korean closed beta test of Civilization Online. Potential testers can begin signing up on the official site. Winners will be selected on November 24th, with the beta kicking off on November 25th. More testers will be added daily through November 29th.