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Blizzard has released a trailer for an upcoming World of Warcraft documentary entitled "Looking for Group" that chronicles the game’s ten years of existence and takes a look behind the curtain. It further interviews players and fans around the world about their experiences with WoW and much more. Enjoy!
Bandai-Namco has announced that a new patch has been released for Lords of the Fallen. The main issue now solved is a game-breaking bug that cropped up when players fell into a pit in the Catacombs.
Webzen has announced that Sevencore is now part of its online games portal. Sevencore’s previous host, Route Entertainment Korea, has merged its membership database with Webzen’s. Anyone with a Webzen account can now log in and play Sevencore for free.
The Everquest 2 site has been updated with news of the just-announced Aerakyn player race. Players will be able to purchase the ability to play as Aerakyn beginning November 11th and a new developer blog is on the site to lay out the unique qualities of the Aerakyn.
Yesterday, EA announced that Dawngate, its first foray into the MOBA genre, would be shutting down in 90 days. I sometimes find myself surprised at how cynical I’ve become in my years writing about videogames, but this news honestly came as a surprise to me. Was I naïve to think that Dawngate had a snowball’s chance in hell at survival?
Last week we had our first impressions of Deck 13’s Lords of the Fallen, an obvious homage the punishingly difficult action RPG Dark Souls. In our final review we explore the ups and downs of the game now that we’ve had time to finish it, and while it never really reaches Dark Souls heights, fans of the genre will likely find a lot to love. Read on for the full review.
This week, Star Wars: the Old Republic announced the end of PVP Season Three to coincide with the launch of Game Update 3.0: Shadow of Revan. They also announced three tiers of rewards based on the Rating players will acquire during the season of play. Today, we’ll take a look at the game’s PVP options and see where the fun is.
Just before writing this article, I finally hit level 65 in RIFT: Nightmare Tide, and I couldn’t be happier to get that whole leveling thing out of the way. From level 60 to 64, my leveling experience with Nightmare Tide had been extremely positive. Things were moving quickly, but not so quickly as to undermine the achievement of gaining a level. Quests were fun and engaging, so much so that I think a lot of them are going to stick with me for quite some time.
Patch 1.5.2 went live on Monday and with it came some major improvements that we already knew about. But it also included a few changes that we did not expected. Were these unexpected changes good or bad?
Red 5 has released a Firefall teaser image that simply says, "14…Initializing Operation…" What it means remains a mystery, though many are speculating a big update announcement soon. What do you think?