Everyone has a fighting chance
The latest Inn-Side Story has been released with Sea of Thieves’ Executive Producer Joe Neate and Design Director Mike Chapman. In this episode, the pair discuss the upcoming content expansion, The Hungering Deep, as well as future plans for new features, campaigns and new ways to play.
Legends of Aria alpha client has been updated with a patch that brings a number of tweaks to combat into the game, including the amount of heal during a battle and an increased STR damage modifier. One particularly interesting note is the removal of the “M” button to open a world map. “We feel strongly that “GPS” doesn’t make sense in our world, and having a map you open with a hotkey creates the wrong expectation”, the notes read.
With Pathfinder: Kingmaker already in beta, the release of a brand new CRPG is surely imminent. After we dipped into Golarion for the first time, I had a chance to sit down and talk to Owlcat Games Creative Director, Alexander Mishulin, about the bringing this iconic table top game into the digital age.
When Ravenloft arrives in Neverwinter next month, players will be facing off against a whole new bestiary of creatures not yet before seen. These include “witches, werewolves, vampire, undead, beasts, corrupted druids and more”. The blog also reveals that many of the new foes feature a new AI that makes them feel “more like a real combatant”. They will chain abilities, move faster, spend less time lollygagging and come at players in larger numbers.
I can safely say after spending more time in the land of Tyria, I found myself having more and more of an enjoyable experience with Guild Wars 2. Although it is for different reasons than I thought it would be and that’s not a bad thing at all. In my all time playing MMORPGs I mainly looking for a couple of things,: one of those things that play probably the most important part to me is : Community.
The latest Star Citizen: Around the Verse video has been published. This week, it is hosted by Technical Director of Content Sean Tracy and Animation Director Steve Bender. The two spend time this week speaking on the topic of legacy armor and provide a new spot for “Loremaker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
The EVE Online site has been updated with the news that the next content expansion, Into the Abyss, will be launching on Tuesday, May 29th. Players can expect a 30 minute downtime to deploy the patch starting at 3:00 am Pacific / 6:00 am Eastern. The expansion comes with new content to all areas of space as well as “stunning new environments that breathe new life and bring new content to all areas of space”.
State of Decay 2 has scored a pretty amazing number of players in its first two days of release. According to XBox Games Marketing, over a million players have purchased the game and taken part in the struggle to survive. To date, players have clocked over six million hours of gameplay and viewers have watched 3.5M hours of Mixer, Twitch and YouTube streams.
The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrow’s Deep is getting ready for launch and the team is eager to let fans see what’s what. In a new video narrated by Creative Director David Rogers, viewers get a “glimpse of the vast world of tactical action, puzzles, quests and choices” they can expect when the game launches later in 2018.
You’re hanging from a tree. Crucified and left to rot. Punishment for sins? Consequences for crossing powerful enemies? It doesn’t matter now. The hot desert sun burns relentlessly, scorching everything under its broad gaze. The wind slowly peels layers of skin from your body the molten sand biting at your flesh. Soon it will all be over.