Everyone has a fighting chance
No doubt the sales of chocolate and flowers have been increasing in the spiral. It’s Valentine’s Day next week after all. Date or no date, Valentina Heartsong comes to the Shopping District every year to share her holiday goodies with the residents of Wizard City. As much as I look forward to her visit, wouldn’t it be cool if there was something more this time of year?
The Elder Scrolls Online site has been updated with a post from Loremaster Lawrence Schick who uses the space to announced that he is leaving Zenimax for “his next great adventure”. Schick has been with the company since 2009 as its Lead Writer and Loremaster. The post is filled with Schick’s observations about the community and its importance to Tamriel.
Preloading for tomorrow’s The Division 2 Private Beta has started via UPlay and the client weighs in at a hefty 41.89Gb for PC. The demo event will run from Thursday, February 7th through Monday, February 11th and provides guaranteed access for those who have preordered the game. A limited number of keys have also been given out to those who registered on the game’s official site.
From February 7th to February 12th, Elder Scrolls Online players who are not already Plus members are invited to try out ESO Plus for themselves. Plus membership offers players full access to all of the game’s DLC including Murkmire, the latest content expansion DLC. There are also a number of other perks including boosts to XP, gold acquisition and much more.
On February 12th, TERA EU will be launching a Classic Server in celebration of the game’s sixth anniversary. Players will be able to (re)explore “long-closed instances” like the Crucible of Flame, the Temple of Temerity and the Sirjuka Gallery. End game dungeons will reopen such as Rift’s Edge, Balder’s Temple and Fane of Kaprima. The server will also include 120 player invasions “in the revived Nexus events” and 20-player Traverse Sovereign raids as well.
Enplex Games has released a new trailer to show off building mechanics that people can expect to find in the survival sci-fi MMO when it launches.
Torchlight Frontiers is inching ever closer to its eventual launch in 2019, and with two exciting alpha weekends under its belt, and more to come, we caught up with Tyler Thompson, Project Lead and Echtra Co-Founder and Paul Hobbs, Community Manage at Echtra. Together, we discussed everything from how the team’s been trying to push the genre farther, and how they’ve learned to rein it in when they go too far.
There’s no question that Apex Legends is off to a strong start. During yesterday’s EA investor relations call, CEO Andrew Wilson spoke about the amazing success the game had attained in its first 24-hours. “What I can say is that in the first 24-hours we had over 2.5 million unique users trending past towards 3 million unique users and nearly 600,000 peak and current users kind of in the middle of a Tuesday, so it’s very early but the response to the game has been very, very strong”.
EA’s investor call took place earlier this week with some surprising admissions from CEO Andrew Wilson. “Q3 was a difficult quarter for Electronic Arts and we did not perform to our expectations.” While Battlefield V sold 7.3M copies, it was nearly a million units short of projections largely due to the month-long delay of its release. “Unfortunately the release date meant the game launched deeper into a competitive holiday window,” Wilson said.
From now through February 12th, For Honor players can check out the four Wu Lin heroes from Marching Fire for free even if they do not own the expansion or have not already unlocked them using in-game Steel. During the event, the Marching Fire expansion will be 50% off for those who take a shine to the heroes.