Everyone has a fighting chance
Horror genre fans are no doubt acquainted with the Five Nights at Freddy’s series of games, all four of them. Wildly popular, the series is even being made into a film by Warner Bros. Series creator Scott Cawthon is ready to branch out and is taking the setting, if not the game play, to RPGs as he announced on the Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 Steam community page yesterday.
RPG Files is back from its two week break, and Chris dives deep into Divinity: Original Sin 2 and how it’s shaping up to be one of the most revolutionary RPGs in years.
The Steparu team has prepared a new preview for the final Korean closed beta event for Bless as it gets underway. The author wonders if Bless can truly be considered an action-MMORPG, as in built from the ground up to be so, or if the "action" part was added as an afterthought.
The Neverwinter team will be hosting a special live stream Q&A with R.A. Salvatore, author of some of the most iconic books based in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. Neverwinter’s next expansion will be sending players into the Underdark, home of Drizzt Do’Urden. Mr. Salvatore has written an entire quest line that will be featured in the Underdark.
The Roccat team is starting a new Twitch.tv program that will take place every two weeks and that will feature both industry and Roccat community leaders. The inaugural event will take place on Friday, September 18th at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern with members of the "world’s best World of Warcraft guild", Method.
Magerealm players are being forewarned that mayhem is incoming with the next game update called Wraith of Oaklane. The patch will bring ten new bosses that can drop Wraith tokens to be traded for awesome new gear. In addition, Wraiths can drop gear and a special reward for the player who lands the killing blow.
TERA players will be trying to settle the age old…or Internet-old…question of which class reigns supreme, Pirates or Ninjas. Set to coincide with Talk Like a Pirate Day (YARR!) on Saturday, September 19th, players can begin strutting their Ninja-y or Pirate-y stuff beginning today and lasting through Tuesday, September 22nd.
Blizzard has announced that elimination rounds for tournament play during Blizzcon will take place in the week prior to the annual convention. Teams will face off in Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft and Starcraft II elimination matches beginning on October 28th, with the World Championships for each to be held during Blizzcon the following week.
The Warframe team is encouraging players to check in this weekend for a special bonus weekend that will yield double credits during missions and special "high-yield" alerts that where players can score some awesome gear.
Newzoo has published a new report with some astonishing facts about eSports, often scoffed at by "real" sports enthusiasts. According to the data, viewers of online gaming sports has increased from nearly 90M last year to 116M this year. In addition, revenue this year is expected to reach $278M and to more than double in the next three years.