CCP Games has released an interesting video that compares the size of the smallest of the three citadels, EVE Online’s ‘cities in the sky’, to the Empire State Building. It’s an impressive look at an impressive ship. Check it out!
Overwatch: The Hero Shooter to Beat
Overwatch feels like a sort of natural evolution of the Team Fortress formula. Blizzard’s taken the basic idea of Team Fortress 2 and managed to modernize it with gameplay elements from the MOBA genre. It’s a hard locked six vs. six affair and there are way more characters (21, to be exact), but they’re ultimately pretty similar games with similar game modes.
General: Twitch Gets Real – Legal Action Filed Against Bot Makers
The Twitch blog has been updated with a significant post that reveals a new legal action filed by the company against seven of the most active viewbot services sellers. This is the third layer of protection the company is putting in place to stop broadcasters from overinflating view statistics, follower counts and chat activity on Twitch.
Marvel Heroes 2016: Dynamic Combat Level & You – A Player’s Primer
The Marvel Heroes 2016 forum has a brand new post to give players a forward look at a system that will be coming to the game soon. Called Dynamic Combat Level, the system essentially evens the playing ground between players of different character levels. In essence, a level 40 fighting enemies with a level 15 friend will take equivalent damage as if he or she was also a level 15. That doesn’t, of course, mitigate additional skills attained since level 15.
General: The RPG News of E3 2016
Another E3 has come and gone and with it another tidal wave of gaming news. This week in the RPG Files, we’re looking at all of the roleplaying news that’s fit to print. Read on to see just what this year’s biggest presser had for RPG fans!
World of Warcraft: Nuggets of Legion Info from Today’s Live Stream
Ion Hazzikostas was on hand with Community Manager Josh Allen during a live stream event to answer community-submitted questions about World of Warcraft: Legion. The answers revealed a few interesting nuggets of information about several different topics.
Crowfall: The Minotaur Myrmidon Revealed
WorthPlaying.com has a great new interview with Crowfall Creative Director J. Todd Coleman all about the Minotaur Myrmidon. The Myrmidon will be entering the pre-alpha “soon” and will join the other six Archetypes already in the game.
Riders of Icarus: Welcome to Riders of Icarus – SPONSORED
You’ll travel throughout the lands in search of powerful and majestic beasts to aid in a war against evil. Tame and train your mounts to help you overcome impossible challenges, and use them for more than just travel. Grab the reins as you master mounted ground and aerial combat to purge the skies and everything under them of all vile and wicked foes. The ride of your life awaits in Riders of Icarus!
Warhammer 40K: Inquisitor Martyr: It’s Both Brilliant & a Little Boring
Warhammer 40K: Inquisitor – Martyr is a mouthful for a name, but I’m inclined to forgive it after spending an hour goring enemies on my sword. The Warhammer universe is a brutal place, so a violent action RPG actually feels right at home. Neocore Games aren’t new to the genre either, they’re the studio behind the King Arthur and Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing RPGs, and Inquisitor feels like it’s being made with that combined wisdom.
General: Skylanders Coming to Netflix Thanks to Activision-Blizzard
From the “Not So MMO” files: Fans of Skylanders will be pleased to hear that Activision-Blizzard’s first foray into the television and films business will be “Skylanders Academy” an exclusive Netflix series set to debut in the fall of 2016.