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The Path of Exile site has been updated with a note from Grinding Gear to let the community know that it is finally fulfilling one of its long-standing goals to bring private leagues to players. These private leagues cost about $12 (using PoE Points that are about $1 per point) and include 10 player slots. The League lasts 10 days, though it can be extended up to two months. Players can also add more player slots across a wide variety of prices.
If there is one thing World of Warcraft developers love to do, it is to place well-hidden secrets in the game. There is even a dedicated group on Discord that charges itself with deciphering the clues and getting them organized properly to reveal cool new things. In the past, this has included pets and mounts. The latest secret uncovered is in Waycrest Manor, a dungeon found on Kul Tiras in Battle for Azeroth.
The Diablo team took to the stage yesterday at BlizzCon 2018 to answer fan questions, though none were centered on the controversy that the announcement of the mobile-only game has created since Friday. The team answered a variety of questions covering whether or not we’ll see Mephisto in the game, if microtransactions will be present and how Blizzard plans “to stay relevant with a mobile game in a heavily PC-dominated market”.
The Diablo team took to the stage yesterday at BlizzCon 2018 to answer fan questions, though none were centered on the controversy that the announcement of the mobile-only game has created since Friday. The team answered a variety of questions covering whether or not we’ll see Mephisto in the game, if microtransactions will be present and how Blizzard plans “to stay relevant with a mobile game in a heavily PC-dominated market”.
The World of Warcraft: Classic panel has wrapped up and the Blizzard team has updated the official site with a lengthy recap of all that was discussed during the hour-long presentation. Readers will learn about the search for the databases, art assets and source code for vanilla and how they used those as the basis for a prototype before turning it into the demo that players have had a chance to try out over this past weekend.
The ArcheAge site has been updated with a brief note from the new ArcheAge team to let the community know what it has been up to for the past couple weeks since the announcement that Trion Worlds had been sold to Gamigo. In it, the new team is working to ensure server stability, set up the new infrastructure and to deploy the 5.0 Update Relics of Hiram to the PTS today. Relics will be ready for players to test starting at 4:00 pm today and 5.0 will be launching on live servers on November 13th.
In Torchlight Frontiers, players will have access to a Fort, a literal safe spot during your journey through the game world. In a new blog post on the game’s official site, we get a sneak peek at Forts and what they bring to the player.
During today’s World of Warcraft What’s Next Panel at BlizzCon 2018, the team announced a number of new features coming in 8.1.5 and 8.2/8.2.5. Among them are some long-requested features.
From now through November 18th, BattleNet PC players can claim and keep a free copy of Destiny 2. This does not, of course, include the Forsaken expansion, but it includes all of the content up to that point. The offer is being made in celebration of Destiny 2’s presence on BattleNet.
Shown at BlizzCon 2018 to introduce the mobile-only ARPG to the world.