Our own Bill Murphy will be streaming a bit of Blade & Soul action tonight. Join the MMORPG.com Streams channel at 6:30 pm Pacific / 9:30 pm Eastern. Hang out with Bill’s Blade Dancer, Toboko on Old Man Cho!
Overwatch: Beta Slated to Resume in February
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan has taken to the Overwatch forums to let fans know that the game’s closed beta will be making its return in February. During the last month, devs have been working to address player feedback and to adjust the balance of the game.
Star Citizen: Behind the Scenes with Captain McLaren aka Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson has a role in Star Citizen: Squadron 42 as Captain McLaren. Last summer, Anderson traveled to London’s Imaginarium Studios for some motion capture acting to prepare her character’s role. Check it out for some fascinating footage of a work in progress. It’s quite cool!
Elder Scrolls Online: More on the Thieves Guild DLC with Rich Lambert
The Thieves Guild will be Elder Scrolls Online’s first DLC of 2016, and it’s shaping up to be pretty massive in terms of content included. We caught up with ESO’s Creative Director, Rich Lambert to ask a few questions about the recent info dump on the content pack.
Blade & Soul: Peek Into the Crystal Ball & Divine the Future
NCSoft has released a new trailer that gives hints to players about what they can expect in the next several months via content updates. The video features snow-capped mountains, beautifully detailed palaces, wicked looking monsters, epic fights and much more. See what you think in this minute plus teaser and leave us your thoughts in the comments.
Guild Wars 2: Winter Quarterly Update to be Featured on Guild Chat
This week’s Guild Chat live stream should be an interesting one for Guild Wars 2 players who are interested in seeing some of the big stuff coming with the first Quarterly Update scheduled to launch later this month. The stream will take place at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern in the Guild Wars 2 Twitch Channel.
General: Users Reporting DDOS Attack on Smedley’s New Site
Users on Reddit are reporting that John Smedley’s Pixel Mage Games is under DDOS attack. Attempting to access the page yields a Cloudflare notification before the site can be accessed.
Black Desert Online: From the OMG Files – Devs Sponsor Ugly Character Contest
The Daum EU team is off to a fantastic start with the arrival of its downloadable character creation tool that allows players to utilize the same customization tool to make the perfect character that can later be imported into the beta or into the released game.
General: The Time for Fallout Online is Now
Like many other gamers, November and December of last year saw most of my video game immersion happen in a single game: Fallout 4. As the end of the year brought on the usual annual reminiscing, I got to thinking about all the time I’ve spent playing in the Fallout universe since 1997, and how Fallout is one of the few game series I’ve played regularly over the last 19 years – a testament to its’ quality.
General: On Bringing Dragon’s Dogma Online to the West
This week our friend Christopher Coke is celebrating a new arrival in his family, so Bill Murphy is sitting in to talk about the week’s RPG news. Also, he urges you all to play Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arising on the PC, so we might get the MMO version outside of Japan.