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The Bungie site has been updated with a brief post to announce a partnership agreement with NetEase. The Chinese game publisher infused Bungie with $100M for its minority stake that will “empower us to build new worlds and invite players, new and old, to join us there. They’ll help us support separate teams inside Bungie to bring our newest ambitions to life”.
MMORPG.com has a limited number of keys for Wizard101 for the Battlemage Keep Bundle! These are worth $39 each and will give players the Battlemage Keep Castle, Dyeable Battle Havox Mount, Wargoyle Pet and much more! Enter now for a chance to win one of these epic bundles!
Wildstar is celebrating its fourth birthday and pulling out all the stops for the entire month of June during its Starfall Anniversary Celebration. From June 1st to June 30th, several “lucrative bonus events on a weekly rotation” will be released for fun and “out-of-this-world” benefits. Players will also receive a special reward pack delivered to their mailboxes and retrievable every week just by logging in.
Starting June 7th, Champions Online will no longer support monthly subscription, though Lifetime Subscriptions will still be available. As a replacement, players will be able to purchase the Premium Pack that provides a host of in-game items, costume unlocks, access to several services, travel powers and two titles. The pack can be purchased via the C-Store for 1500 Zen starting June 7th.
The Rift site has been updated with a lengthy post to lay out developers’ plans for Rift through the summer of 2018. The post reveals plans for both Live and Prime servers. The letter begins with updates that have been deployed since the spring update including balance changes and other content patches.
The Dual Universe blog has been updated with a blog post to detail new ship dynamics and engine designs. All of the most recent changes are based on player feedback from those participating in the pre-alpha gameplay opportunity. “We don’t want a one-size-fits-all ship design that encompasses all atmosphere conditions, high or low altitude, space, etc.” the post reads.
E-Sports: it’s a wave taking over the PC gaming industry. Whether you’re an aspiring pro or a gamer who’s never watched a stream in his life, you’ve heard of the filled arenas and millions in prize money. Today, we’re looking at a new keyboard from BenQ Zowie, tailor made for e-Sports players and aspiring pros (and dropping the RGB). This is our review of the BenQ Zowie Celeritas II.
The Defiance 2050 site has been updated with a very brief look at the four new base classes that will come with the game when it launches later this summer. The accompanying video provides a look at how classes are chosen and shows off some of the skill tree and a bit of gameplay action.
The DC Universe Online site has been updated with a brief post to announce the next major content update that will see the Teen Titans home to Titan Tower and that “a new system to upgrade your characters”. The Teen Titans: Judas Contract episode will be coming in July and the Augment system will be arriving in August.
I never thought voxel MMO Trove could get anymore brighter or cuter but Trion Worlds has proven me wrong announcing Trove Geode and Bomber Royale last month, releasing both updates on the Public Test Shard shortly after. Yours truly has been on there taking it all in and this is what I have discovered.