Everyone has a fighting chance
The Survarium site has been updated with a pair of news items of interest to the community. The first is that a new season of competitive PvP is starting up today and running through October 31st. Players can earn special tokens to collect unique weapons and gear. There are a number of locations and game modes that will support the Survarium Leagues Season.
The MapleStory 2 Head Start has officially kicked off and it comes with a massive patch that brings a number of new and updated features to the game as well as a new in-game event. The update features “changes improvements and lessons we learned from Closed Beta 1 and 2”. The MapleStory 2 head start event runs from today through October 10th when the open beta begins.
During a livestream event that ended earlier today, the Torchlight Frontiers team showed off a ton of gameplay as well as provided a visual look at the horizontal progression system that the game will utilize. You may remember that over the weekend, the team spent time on Reddit providing a textual description of how “Frontiers” will have their own progression and end game” and that allows players to collect a variety of quipment to suit every location.
The Dauntless site has been updated with a blog post to let players know that the Repeater type of weapon is coming to the game on October 3rd. Players will be able to mix and match grip, chamber, barrel and prism parts to customize their Repeater. To get the first set of Repeaters, players will need to “reach the Monstrous Verge and defeat a Shrike”.
Google has published a new blog that announces Project Stream that will allow players to stream games through Chrome. “The idea of streaming such graphically-rich content that requires near-instant interaction between the game controller and the graphics on the screen poses a number of challenges. When streaming TV or movies, consumers are comfortable with a few seconds of buffering at the start, but streaming high-quality games requires latency measured in milliseconds with no degradation”.
What makes a gaming router, anyway? That’s the question we’re setting out to answer today in our review of the NETGEAR Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 Router. We’ve also paired it with the Nighthawk Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender to deliver high bandwidth gaming to every corner of our test home. Can a router really be made for gaming or is it all looks and marketing? Join us as we find out in our full review.
The Wizard101 site has been updated with the news that thrills and chills have returned to the Spiral. This includes “lots of Halloween decorations, bubbling cauldrons, apple tubs, pumpkins and ghosts and surprises all over Wizard City”. There’s even a boss to test the most intrepid of Wizards.
This past week we spoke with J. Todd Coleman about some of the amazing updates coming with Crowfall this week. The main focus was on the monsters in the game and how these different create and tribal types of mobs will impact players as they battle it out against each other. Crowfall’s next big release will start to put the Throne War elements into place, so the team thought to focus on monsters for a few announcements.
Get ready for Overwatch thrills and chills when this year’s Halloween Terror event kicks off. You can look for it starting on October 9th and for the goodies that will come with it. We don’t know which Heroes will be getting new skins, but you can bet that there will be a plethora of them as well as sprays, voice lines, victory poses and much more.
To celebrate over a million registered users for Ring of Elysium, developers are kicking off the Gratitude of Dione event that will introduce new cosmetic rewards claimable via Steam throughout the day today. The items include a Gray Turtleneck and Death Bandana cosmetic apparel.