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The latest Star Citizen: Around the Verse is out and about, this time with a very pithy description that is best left as-is: “Run like hell, FOIP n’ VOIP, the thrilling return of mining improvements, contractual obligation, and 88 keys in this week’s update.” See what it’s all about with hosts Sandi Gardiner and Chris Roberts and leave us your thoughts in the comments.
When Destiny 2 expands with the Forsaken content expansion later this fall, Guardians will bid farewell to one of the series’ most iconic and beloved characters, Cayde-6. In this new trailer shown during Gamescom, viewers get a look at Cayde-6’s “Last Stand” and…well, its emotional impact.
Cryptic Studios is ready to celebrate the 9th anniversary of Champions Online. To do so, they’re cracking out both cake and cats. Over the course of the month-long celebration, players can take on “exciting challenges” for rewards and stuff themselves silly with a giant cake. In addition, “Champions can risk one of their nine lives to participate in the game’s newest mission, to rescue stray cats from trees throughout Millennium City”.
During Gamescom, Wargaming revealed the first-ever trailer for World of Warships: Legends, the console version of the naval combat game. World of Warships: Legends will be launching on consoles in 2019.
Today’s announcement by Bandai Namco about its first-ever console-only MMO, Bless Unleashed, has spurred a lot of questions about whether or not this is a port of Bless Online to XBox One (it’s not…) and others. The Bless Online site has been updated with a new FAQ to provide answers to the most common questions that illustrate the differences between the two and what the development of Bless Unleashed means to the future of Bless Online.
Red Thomas dives in the seemingly innocuous dining environment available in Monster Hunter World and explores some of the unexpected complexities in the system.
This year felt a bit different for me. There were a ton of new trailers and some key developments, but nothing truly awe-inspiring (well, except one thing, but more on that later). In any case, Gamescom 2018 did still tick some key boxes for me and these are my highlights listed in no particular order.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the Battle for Azeroth expansion to World of Warcraft has scored a new Day-One sales record by moving 3.4M copies on August 14th. Seemingly, this does not include units pre-ordered prior to launch day. This makes BfA the “fastest-selling WoW expansion ever” and makes it “one of the fastest-selling PC games of all time”.
During Gamescom 2018, our pals Ed and Gareth were able to be among the first to get hands-on time with Echtra and Perfect World’s Torchlight Frontiers – the brand new MMO ARPG based on the Torchlight franchise formerly of Runic Games. They also spoke to studio founder Max Schaefer about many of the finer details of how Frontiers will play – from housing to randomization, progression and gear, day and night cycles and more.