Everyone has a fighting chance
I was able to meet up with three members of the Rend team at PAX West recently. We sat down and talked about Rend – the ideas behind gameplay mechanics, current issues facing the game and their possible solutions, as well as a small sneak peek at some not-yet-seen content that will be coming soon.
Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has dashed the hopes of Fortnite players hoping for true crossplay between all of the available platforms. The company has been under a lot of pressure from Epic and the Fortnite community to open up full cross play on all platforms. While the PS4 version of Fortnite is crossplay-compatible with PC and mobile, it is not with XBox One and Switch. In a recent interview, Yoshida said that “PlayStation is the best place to play”.
It appears that a new Lord of the Rings MMO is going to be coming in the future. The information comes via a “Voluntary Announcement – Business Update” by Leyou Technologies that has established a new publishing brand called Athlon Games. The document reveals that Athlon has partnered with Middle-earth Enterprises “to develop and publish a free-to-play massively multiplayer online video game based on The Lord of the Rings, the landmark fantasy literary work of JRR Tolkien”.
Over the past weekend, the Associated Press (via GamesIndustry) interviewed Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee and asked a pointed question about the possible future inclusion of eSports. “We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination,” Bach said. “So-called killer games…they, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot therefore be accepted.”
Thanks to travel and accommodations provided by Bungie and Activision, we had the opportunity to experience Destiny 2: Forsaken before launch!
This video contains my first impressions of the opening story mission “Prison Break” along with hands-on experience with Gambit, Forsaken’s new PvPvE mode.
A copy of Destiny 2: Forsaken was provided by Activision.
At PAX West this year, we had the chance to be among the first people in the world to play Breach, the ambitious new genre-brending ARPG from QC Games. Breach is a combination of mechanics and genres that make for something pretty unique in the F2P space, and we’re lucky enough to say that it also plays pretty dang well to boot.
This Anthem video was shown during this weekend’s PAX West. In it, BioWare emphasizes the “our world, my story” mantra for Anthem. Personal stories of each agent that are developed in the Fort Tarsus, and the shared world adventures in the open world that can be experienced cooperatively.
We finally have more information on what might be the most anticipated upcoming games: Anthem. Earlier today I got to sit on the pre-panel press event before the big PAX panel to get a sneak peek at the entire reveal before everyone else and a unique chance for a small public Q&A with other members of the gaming press. But you didn’t click into this article to read my gibberish so without further ado it’s time to dive in!
Intrepid Studios has just wrapped up a PAX West presentation and enabled the replay on the Ashes of Creation YouTube channel. It’s another fantastic opportunity to check out the gameplay that Alpha One players will be seeing when the first testing opportunity comes up later this month.
Over the past week, fans of Star Citizen have been in a kerfuffle with Roberts Space Industries over the $20 fee required to view the CitizenCon keynote address. As a result, RSI has opted to remove the fee to make the speech / presentation viewable for free. According to the post, the fee was introduced to offset the larger-than-expected CitizenCon.