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In celebration of the start of closed beta testing for Warhammer: Chaosbane, Bigben and Eko Software have sent out the official launch trailer. Closed beta testing kicks off today and will run through March 13th.
The Star Citizen team has cobbled together a seven-part tutorial series covering a wide array of topics for first-time players. These topics include “Getting Started”, “Welcome to Port Olisar”, “Ready for Lift Off” and several more.
A new blog post has arrived on the Star Trek Online site to give players a heads up about some big changes coming to character creation. UI Designer Jo Gianulis writes that, at the start, STO character creation was simple and worked well but that, over time, it became “bloated and overwhelming” due to the addition of new species and factions. The process began to “clean up the UI and cut down on the visual clutter”.
Watching Massive’s Endgame info dump livestream yesterday, I found myself nodding so often I could have probably hurt my neck. I can’t possibly speak to how good of a game The Division 2 will end up being at this point, but one thing’s for sure, it won’t be lacking in endgame content.
En Masse Entertainment has announced that it will be sunsetting Kritika Online on April 30th. From now through that date, the game will be in maintenance mode with several changes starting today. Players will not be able to create new Kritika accounts, EMP cannot be used in-game after today and all EMP items are removed from the shop. Everything in the Kred shop will be reduced to zero cost and Kred amounts will be converted back to EMP.
Even though Diablo 2 has been available as a “classic game” on Battle.Net for years, Diablo 1 never has been…until now. The game has never appeared anywhere else except in physical editions. However, all that has changed with today’s release of Diablo 1 over at GoG.com for $9.99. This marks a turning point for Blizzard games that have never appeared in any other form than physical and / or on Battle.Net.
A brief post has appeared on the PlayerUknown’s Battlegrounds site that acknowledges that PUBG Corp is hard at work on some significant changes coming to the game’s maps and loot balance. Currently, the Erangel map is in the process of being retooled, something that is designed to keep older content as relevant as new content.
While World of Warcraft v8.1.5 adds a lot of new content, it also will be removing things from the game. In this case, many of the portals that get players around Azeroth in a timely fashion are being taken out to keep “the world having a meaningful size”. However, this design decision has sparked a massive backlash with the community, with several threads topping the 5,000 response mark. A new dev post acknowledges the outcry but essentially says, “Sorry, not sorry. We’re sticking to it.”
While World of Warcraft v8.1.5 adds a lot of new content, it also will be removing things from the game. In this case, many of the portals that get players around Azeroth in a timely fashion are being taken out to keep “the world having a meaningful size”. However, this design decision has sparked a massive backlash with the community, with several threads topping the 5,000 response mark. A new dev post acknowledges the outcry but essentially says, “Sorry, not sorry. We’re sticking to it.”
Z1 Battle Royale, the game formerly known as H1Z1 Battle Royale, has been updated with a massive patch that features tons of new content, marks the start of the first new season since late 2018 and “represents the first big delivery on the promise that the new NantG team would bring back the game that so many of you fell in love with in the classic “King of the Kill” era around Preseason 3″.