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Chris flies solo on a shorter edition of Game On! This week, we talk about Wildstar’s forums being taken offline following an exploit, Camelot Unchained’s beta delay and Mark Jacobs popping up in our comments to talk about it, being on the cusp of a new WoW expansion announcement and what that means for current players (another content drought?), and Project Gorgon steamrolling its new Kickstarter goal.
The Dragon Age Facebook page has been updated with a new screen from Dragon Age: Inquisition and the text "We’re hearing reports of Increased seismic activity around Thedas…". It is possible that a new DLC is being teased that could be announced during tomorrow’s EA press conference from Gamescom.
World of Warcraft subscriptions have plummeted to 5.6 million in Quarter 2 subscribers, down from 7.1 in Quarter 1. This reflects a loss of nearly half the subscribers from the launch of Warlords of Draenor in November 2016 when numbers soared over the 10 million mark.
The 2.3 patch to Diablo III will be bringing big changes into the game. In the latest preview of some of the larger pieces of the game to undergo the developer "knife", adventure mode is in the spotlight.
The Crowfall team has released a new video from the pre-alpha version of the game to show off the Confessor Archetype and the powers that she wields. It’s a great way to see combat in controlled action. Check it out!
Cryptic Studios has announced that the Elemental Evil expansion to Neverwinter will be headed to XBox One in September. Console players will gain access to Elemental Evil, Fury of the Feywild, Shadowmantle and Curse of Icewind Dale at the same time, bringing the XBox One version of Neverwinter nearly current with PC.
During today’s Microsoft press event, it was announced that ARK: Survival Evolved will be headed to XBox One this winter. The story is developing so we’ll keep you posted!
Chris Junior took over the Game Director role for Rift back in December of 2014 right around the 3.0 launch for Nightmare Tide. Since then, the Trion Worlds team has been plugging away on content to lead players onward through the murky dark waters of the expansion. We caught up with Chris to talk about the most recent patch, Waking Nightmares, and what we can expect to hear about at Gamescom this year.
Gamescom is off and running and one of the first out of the gate is Dark Souls III with a brand new game play trailer. Check it out and leave us your thoughts in the comments.
The Skyforge site has been updated with a new preview post for the Crucible of the Gods update that is scheduled to go live later this month. of particular note is the topic of "prestige scaling" that will allow players to work together to earn prestige. Groups will scale down to the lowest prestige group member and awards all players appropriate rewards for prestige.