Everyone has a fighting chance
With the pre-event for the next World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hitting live servers by mid-July, now is a good time to get some things squared away for your account to make sure you’re ready to hit the ground running. We’ve come up with a list of some things you can do right now to make sure you’re ship shape ahead of the August 14th release of Battle for Azeroth.
World of Tanks console players are receiving a massive update today with the launch of the Mercenaries content expansion. The new addition “dramatically transforms its most popular franchise” for PlayStation 4 and XBox One. Wargaming considers Mercenaries “a re-launch of the 15-million player strong F2P console MMO”.
PlayStation 4, XBox One and PC / Windows players who own the Gold Edition of The Crew 2 can rev their engines and put the rubber to the road starting today. To celebrate today’s limited launch, Ubisoft has released a brand new trailer.
In a new survey of 1000 Fortnite players that has been posted over at Lendedu.com, researchers have determined that nearly 70% of all players have purchased something from the in-game store and that, on average, players have spent nearly $85 to date.
Overwatch is in the news today with a pair of interesting stories. In one, a South Korean hacker was sentenced to a year in prison and two years probation for a cheating program that “violates the country’s Game Industry Promotion Law”. In the other, Blizzard has received an approved patent for a Play of the Game system after originally filing for it in 2016.
Bethesda has released a brand spankin’ new gameplay trailer from Fallout 76. This time, the focus falls on both the gameplay itself and how “all-new graphics, lighting and landscape technology brings to life six different distinct West Virginia regions”.
Epic is taking a hard line against a former contract worker who allegedly leaked information about Fortnite Battle Royale and season four. The spoilers, according to Epic, were first leaked to a second party and then posted to a now-deleted Reddit thread. The defendant, Thomas Hannah, has said that he was “pumped with a series of questions in a casual discussion to try to guess where the meteor (from Season 4) would hit”. Epic says this provided secrets that it wanted kept under wraps.
BioWare’s Mark Darrah, executive producer of Anthem, is on a roll answering fan questions about Anthem. While many of the things Darrah has written about are things known since E3 2018. However, there are a number of interesting factoids in and among the more common questions.
Wizard101 is getting a 2018 makeover just in time for its 10th anniversary. While Renee Wooften puts the finishing touches on the revamped areas of the spiral, players remain eager to see the final result. Luckily, KingsIsle has supplied MMORPG.com with two exclusive teasers for the upcoming summer update.
Gaijin Entertainment has announced that over a million players took part in the free to play Cuisine Royale, a battle royale with a culinary twist. Cuisine Royale began its life as an April Fool’s Day joke that gained traction with the company’s fans until the team finally decided to give it a go by releasing it earlier this month.