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For you thiefy types, it’s time to get the lockpicks gathered, hone those daggers to a razor’s edge, and get that dark clothing pressed in time for the start of the next Elder Scrolls Online event. During the Brotherhood Celebration, nefarious thieves across Tamriel can earn bonus rewards “for certain criminal activities in both Hew’s Bane and the Gold Coast”. The event begins March 7th and runs through March 18th.
If you’ve a hankering for chicken dinner and a bunch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds crossover goodies, then it’s high time you headed into TERA. Starting today, PC and console you can log into TERA to hunt down supply drops for event rewards including Battle Points that can be traded for themed goodies.. In addition, spending an hour a day in TERA and duking it out with open world bosses or completing dungeons will also yield Battle Points.
Next week is a big deal for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth with the forthcoming release of patch 8.1.5. Generally, “half patches”, those smaller updates that arrive between major content patches, aren’t a big deal, but 8.1.5 is a bit different. It brings a number of new features to the game and finally sees the release of the Kul Tiran Humans and Zandalari Troll Allied Races, something players have been looking forward to since the expansion’s announcement.
During Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras over this past weekend, Square Enix teamed up with Sydney Gaymers to bring a Final Fantasy XIV-themed float to the parade. FFXIV’s Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida wrote, “To see this makes me very happy indeed, both as the person in charge of FFXIV and also as just another player of the game. FFXIV is another world that continues to grow and expand online. I would like to continue developing this world, hand in hand with communities” everywhere.
The Dual Universe community was recently challenged by the dev team to create the most awesome ships they could imagine and have they ever come through. The contest was held in December and devs were so pleased with what they saw that a new video has been created to showcase some of the best of the best. “What would sci-fi be without spaceships? Whether it is system-hopping frigates or nimble, planetside fighters, spacecraft give a sci-fi universe its flavor.”
OpenAI is a California-based nonprofit group that released “Neural MMO”, a “massively multiagent” game with the goal that “the inclusion of many agents and species leads to better exploration, divergent niche formation, and greater overall competence”. Players enter a tile-based map where, according to VentureBeat, “they observe the square crops of tiles centered on their respective positions & make one movement & one attack per tick”. They are engaged with foraging or are in combat with others.
The Shroud of the Avatar livestream from last week started off with a bang as Starr Long kicked things off with “We are nomadic now” and told the viewers that Portalarium had decided to give up its office space in favor of teleworking. The move away from offices will free up resources and time, according to Long, due to increasing office rental costs and rising utilities as well as commute time / cost for developers.
The Neverwinter site has been updated with a new blog post that introduces the new Challenge Campaigns that are designed to bring relevance back to older areas to make them more attractive to endgame players. Campaigns that are considered older and that are not leveling zones will be “scaled to offer a consistent challenge when adventuring in their zones”. Three weekly quests sending players off to these specially-designated zones will also be available in Protector’s Enclave.
If there’s one trend in PC building over the last few years, RGB is it. Some people love it and some people hate it, but it’s hard to argue that extra customization is anything but a bad thing. We decided to take it to the next level with our latest build, the RGB Overkill Gaming PC. What happens when you take the industry up on RGB everything? Join us as we find out.
Sad news for content creators, Cryptic Studios has announced that it is retiring the Foundry system for both Neverwinter and Star Trek Online. The announced closure of the Foundries will occur on April 11, 2019. “This decision was not made lightly; the Foundry was a passion project for many of us.” the blog reads. The cited reason for the closure is that “the legacy knowledge required to maintain the Foundry at our quality standards is no longer available”.