Everyone has a fighting chance
The Albion Online team is beginning a new series of articles to shine the spotlight on the dynamic nature of the game community by profiling players, guilds, interesting stories and political machinations. In the inaugural piece, the guild Vendetta receives the star treatment.
Earlier this week, a tragic shooting event took place at a hospital in San Bernardino, California. According to members of the EVE Online community, long-time player Robert "Photon Torpedo" Adams was among the victims. Many memorial posts have been made on both Reddit and Facebook and a special GoFundMe account has been set up to assist his widow and baby girl.
It’s been an impressive year for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt proven during last night’s Game Awards. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt scored big by taking home the Game of the Year prize for 2015 as well as winning The Best Roleplaying Game for the year. In addition, CD Projekt Read garnered the Developer of the Year trophy.
If you didn’t spend a fortune last weekend or on Cyber Monday and still have a few bucks left in your virtual wallet, well, there are still some great finds out there. Gamers looking for some last minute deals will find that even though Amazon’s busiest day has past us, there are some leftovers in the fridge from Thanksgiving.
I may have missed the boat on Divinity: Original Sin’s vanilla release, but with Larian Studios’ relaunch of the game in October, I was determined not to make the same mistake twice. I’ve been blundering through the Enhanced Edition’s wonderfully expansive content for fourteen hours or so, and have yet to scratch the surface of its open-ended gameplay and story.
The Lineage II Classic EU server prepares for launch, the development team is beginning to consider how to name this throwback to an earlier time. Players have from now through December 8th to determine the theme for the server name followed by picking a name that supports that theme at a later date.
The Loremageddon section of the WildStar site has been updated with a pair of new entries in the "Enemies & Allies" section. This time Mondo Zax and Deadeye Brightland, two of WildStar’s most iconic characters, have been given the star treatment of a new biography and much more. These two legends join Axis Pheydra in the ever-expanding section of Loremageddon.
Bethesda is ready to take its Elder Scrolls Online #MillionReasonsToPlay campaign to the next, and quite literal, level with the commencement of a sweepstakes with one lucky player taking home a million dollars. Beginning today, players can sign up at the special micro-site and simply play the game during the sweepstakes period that runs from December 3rd through January 10th. The lucky winner will be announced on February 1, 2016.
Snail Games has announced that the Age of Wushu mobile tie-in called "Dynasty" will launch for both iOS and Android devices in January 2016. The closed beta for Dynasty recently ended and gave developers plenty of constructive feedback for iterative improvements between now and launch day.
Super Evil Megacorp has announced that the finals of the Vainglory Autumn Season 2015 North American tournament will kick off on Friday, December 4th in the eSport Arena in Santa Ana, California. The event will be broadcast on the Vainglory Twitch channel beginning at 3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 pm Eastern. The EU Finals will take place from December 11th through the 13th in Poland.