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The World War 3 team is ready to open up the game to a wider audience with the announcement that it is heading to Early Access beginning October 19th. The price of entry is $28.00 and players will be able to assist Farm 51 with testing the game for 12-15 months.
Belgian Guild Wars 2 players are seemingly unable to purchase the game’s premium currency, Gems. According to forum posts and Reddit, players can no longer enter Belgian addresses as part of billing options. The issue appears to have first started on September 19th when players attempting to buy Gems found an error message even when using a VPN.
The latest H1Z1 patch notes have been posted that inform the community that “the newly re-formed dev team” is hard at work at what “will soon be known as Z1 Battle Royale” on PC in the future and that it will be working with the community to “prioritize features and changes” that will hopefully “return the game to its roots as the world’s most competitive BR game”.
Cryptic Studios acknowledged on September 12th that there was an exploit in the Neverwinter Barovia Hunts “that bypasses the intended gameplay” and that the company was working to patch the issue as soon as possible. The post further indicated that “any character found using the exploit will be subject to possible actions taken against player accounts as per Terms of Service”. It appears that the “actions taken against player accounts” happened over this past weekend.
MMORPG.com has 700 closed beta keys for War Thunder on PC only. We will be holding this sweepstakes from now until Sept 26 @ 9PM EDT. As with all of our sweepstakes the more days you login to MMORPG.com during the event the better your odds of winning! Enter now!
KOG Games has an interesting way of accessing the Velder Academy Concert dungeon during a new event. From now through October 10th, every 10 minutes spent in game will yield two Velder Academy Concert Tickets that grant access to the “dungeon”. Once in, players find that Phoru is wreaking havoc on stage and it’s up to them to “stop his madness and reap the rewards” by dodging sound wave and taking on the note monsters.
For the seventh year in a row, the Harnkegger Games will be held in Lord of the Rings Online. The Games are an LOTRO version of the real world Olympics and feature fifteen events that are sure to appeal to competitors and viewers alike. Event winners will be treated to prizes including LOTRO Points and in-game gold. The event will run from Monday, September 24th through Sunday, September 30th on the Laurelin server.
This week’s MMOFTW is all about the upcoming bit Battle for Azeroth content update, Neverwinter’s crafting overhaul, Lineage II’s classic servers, Wargaming’s new MMO and more. Watch and learn!
The latest Overwatch Developer Update for September has been published, this time with Jeff Kaplan speaking about the long-awaited Torbjorn overhaul. Other heroes will see some adjustments as well as hinting about the upcoming Halloween event. Most notably with the latter, Kaplan says that there won’t be big changes in the event, but that the team is working to improve the existing features.
It appears that a massive round of layoffs has hit Telltale Games, developers of such well-regarded titles as Batman: The Enemy Within, the Minecraft: Story Mode games, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Walking Dead and others. While no official statement has been released, sources speaking to VentureBeat have confirmed the layoffs. Another source said that the company is down to only 25 remaining employees. Some believe this is a precursor to a complete shutdown of the respected studio.