Everyone has a fighting chance
I recently started playing Warframe… again. For about the 10th time maybe? For whatever reason, it’s been one of those games I really want to enjoy – I love the very idea of it – but it’s never stuck with me. That’s finally changed, and I’m not entirely sure why. But what I do know is that I’m finally understanding why 24 million-plus people have found themselves enjoying Digital Extremes MMO-like Action RPG-shooter hybrid.
The latest SuperData research analysis is out and about that showcases a couple of interesting facts: Pokemon Go revenue is up 174% year-over-year and is showing the player base at its highest level since launch in 2016.
For Fortnite players who love seasonal play, today’s news that Season 5 will kick off on July 12th will come as a welcome surprise. To get everyone fill up the tiers, Epic is providing a 100% XP bonus from June 29th to July 2nd.
It appears that the legal tussle between Epic Games’ Fortnite and PUBG Corp’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is at an end. According to Bloomberg, PUBG Corp has sent a letter to Epic Games to inform them that it was dropping the lawsuit originally filed in January 2018. There is no particular reason cited regarding why the suit was dropped, but it is possible that Tencent stepped in to stop the bickering as both companies have a relationship with the gaming conglomerate.
Warhorse Studios has announced the first content expansion for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Called From the Ashes, the DLC is expected to launch in July 2018. Players will be introduced to a new way to experience the game by building a new village from the ground up. This provides players with a way “to experience first-hand what it was like to create a new settlement”.
The newest Heroes of the Storm comic has arrived that very obviously ties in to the World of Warcraft faction struggle coming in Battle for Azeroth. Interestingly, the WoW pre-patch event is called War of Thorns and one of the central characters in the comic is the Lady of Thorns, a character seemingly on the side of “good” in the Nexus. She alludes to one of the “Nexus realms” being in danger of falling to the Raven Lord’s “evil”.
The CD Projekt Red site has a trio of interesting job postings, two of which are associated with Cyberpunk 2077. The company is seeking both a network programmer and a senior technology programmer. The caveat is that they postings do not definitively state that multiplayer is the target project. However, they do ask for candidates with previous experience in multiplayer shooters.
The patch notes for Update 22.3 have been posted on the Lord of the Rings Online forum. This time, players can look forward to new festival instances to celebrate the summer season. The Perfect Picnic allows players from level 10-115 to take part in either a solo instance all the way up to a raid instance to win some awesome new rewards. In Boss from the Vaults, Thrang makes a return in a newly overhauled form to challenge parties of six with new rewards as well.
There has always been a reporting system for bad behavior and it will remain in place in Overwatch. However, Blizzard is also introducing a new Endorsement System that will allow players “to acknowledge other players for having a positive impact on your gaming experience”. You’ll be able to acknowledge your fellow teammates who are as invested in having fun as you are.
With the Battle for Azeroth pre-event slated to start sometime in mid-July, it’s time for savvy players to check out the things that will be going away forever once we start down the road to BfA. There is a new post on the World of Warcraft community site that lays out which things will be disappearing and what you can do to make sure your ducks are in a row. Starting right now, the Artifact Retirement quest is now live that will, until the pre-event starts, ramp up power a LOT.