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The Fiery Featherweights update has been deployed to TERA for PC. Most notably, players will be able to to take on the game as an Elin Brawler for the first time. Everyone will also be able to check out the new Enhancement Point system for those looking for additional max-level progression. Lastly, the Bahaar’s Sanctum five-player dungeon is live.
From now through December 23rd, former registered players can make a return to Final Fantasy XIV for up to 96 hours during the free login campaign. The clock starts ticking on the first login, but allows players up to four free days of game time in order to check out all of the new additions and improvements to the game since the last time they played.
A new Crowfall update has been posted to the game’s official site that lays out some of the big changes that are coming to the character creation tool. Starting with the First Campaign (v5.8), players will be able to try out the character creation tool as it has been revamped. This means the process begins in the lobby prior to selecting “a cluster from either a list of Campaigns or a list of available Eternal Kingdoms”.
The Torchlight Frontiers site has been updated with a lengthy post from Echtra’s Max Schaefer to lay out the company’s philosophy about the free to play experience and how it relates to the forthcoming game. Most notably, Schaefer writes that the “community is the most important thing to us, and your happiness is critical to our success”. He adds, however, that an “awesome world requires revenue”, but that they are confident in the choices they are making to achieve both goals.
Creative is back again with a brand new gaming headset and we’ve spent the last two weeks putting it through its paced. On the bench today is the Sound BlasterX H6 USB Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound. It’s compatible with just about everything and looks darn good but for $79.99, does it blast away the competition? Join us as we find out!
Star Trek Online captains looking for new adventures can now head into the game to check out the Age of Discovery, new content based on the CBS All Access series. Captains will adventure alongside Cadet Sylvia Tilly, voiced by series actress Mary Wiseman.
The Playstation Blog has a neat new interview with Final Fantasy Battle Content Designer Yoshito Nabeshima conducted by Community Manager Matt “Bayohne” Hilton. In it, the pair discuss the design of “Omega”, one of the raid bosses that arrived with the v4.4 update.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is finally making the jump to PlayStation 4 on December 7th. The PUBG PS4 version will come complete with all content through Sanhok and with all of the game’s major features including custom matches, the ranked system, event mode, trophies, achievements and much more.
Earlier this fall, many gaming fans were touched when Bethesda’s Matt Grandstaff drove for over two hours to take a pre-release copy of Fallout 76 to 12-year-old Wes who wanted to play the game but was afraid he wouldn’t live to see release day. Sadly, his prediction came true and he passed away on November 3rd. A few days after, Wes’s GoFundMe page was updated with a $10,000 donation and a sweet message from the Bethesda development team.
You. ARE. Legend. Heads of nations know of you and either fear or respect you, beings of immense power have fallen to you and been trampled into the dusty annals of history. Even the Gods have taken notice and have gone so far as to personally petition for your help. But now… Now they want to put you on trial, and the consequential reverberations might just shatter the world. Again. This is our review of EverQuest II: Chaos Descending.