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Guild Wars 2 is rolling back into its fifth Welcome Back week, this time offering Living World Season 4: Episode 5 – All or Nothing. This episode brings players new story content and opportunities to explore Thunderhead Peaks, a dwarven fortress from the original Guild Wars. Players can claim the free episode if they own the Path of Fire expansion from April 23rd to April 29th.
With the release of a ton of information about World of Warcraft Patch 8.2 recently and it being on the PTR now we can finally look at how the new Azerite system will work. Today we’ll take a look at how the system works so far and how it may help or hurt the issues we are currently facing.
Halaster Blackcloak, the Mad Mage, is the architect of the magic-infused Undermountain lair. Every room and hallway has been imbued with his magic and those traveling its subterranean hallways will occasionally run into him as he roams in his domain. In a new dev blog, Lead Character Artist Jonathan Nascone writes about how Blackcloak’s attire and animations were designed to give him the lonely hermit appearance that will be seen when Undermountain launches.
When there are signals coming from a planet in the galaxy who are you going to call to investigate it? In my case Captain Shinzor, a level 65 Tactical Captain. I traveled to a planet you all should know by now, Pahvo. The same mysterious planet that we see live in Star Trek: Discovery, is subject to some strange readings emanating from an Ion Storm in space. What is this the new Star Trek from JJ Abrams? No, it’s something worse.
Elite: Dangerous servers will be taken offline on April 23rd for “approximately six hours, though the time could run over” to bring the April Update to commanders everywhere. Players can look forward to improvements across an array of features including the Main Menu and Commander Creation. New features include the Pilots’ Federation District, a new “regulated area” designed for new commanders. New modules are also being added as well as improvements in other, smaller, areas.
The Heroes of the Storm Twitter seems to be teasing the next hero with a new image posted yesterday. One of the most widely rumored heroes players have been expecting is Anduin Wrynn from World of Warcraft. The image seems to show Shalamayne, once the sword of Anduin’s father, Varian. After Varian’s death in WoW, the sword passed to Anduin. During a cinematic video for Battle for Azeroth, the light at the center of the sword changed from red to a golden one.
In a new interview with Newsweek, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts segued into a discussion of Anthem and what steps he would take to fix the game. Roberts believes, according to the interview, that gamers often have unreasonable expectations compounded by their hatred of EA. “A lot of gamers don’t understand quite how difficult it is to deliver everything working flawlessly,” Roberts stated. “The expectations keep ramping up and may be higher than people are humanly possible of delivering.”
gamigo has sent word that the Easter Bunny is hippety-hopping into all of its stable of games. Players will find a bunch of activities in ArcheAge, Fiesta Online, Echo of Soul, Trove, Last Chaos, Aura Kingdom and Desert Operations.
The Heavy Metal Machines team wants you to know that there are at least ten good reasons to play its unique take on the MOBA genre. Starting with “It’s Unique” and “It Rocks”, the list goes on to give folks incentive to give it a shot.
According to the Ship of Heroes team, when the game launches, it will come with “the best UI in the galaxy”. To showcase progress towards that lofty goal, a new blog has been posted to show the how players can customize every element of the UI in one of two ways: Through a slider for global resizing or each element can be resized and moved on its own.