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Hi-Rez Studios has announced Paladins, a squad-based first person shooter for both consoles and PC. Set in a fantasy realm, the game is preparing for beta with potential players invited to sign up. Check out the video below and let us know what you think!
The month of August will feature a plethora of information about the two Blade & Soul factions, the Cerulean Order and the Crimson Legion. The official site has launched a factions page where new information will be found throughout the month and a special live stream event will be held on August 18th to give players a more visual look at each.
Cabal 2 players will have a new feature called Blackwaves to try out thanks to the arrival of today’s update. Blackwaves pits players against twelve waves of monsters in increasingly difficult groups. Players will score some new gear that is better than that found in high-end dungeons or through mob drops.
Maingear has announced that a new line of high performance gaming PCs are now shipping that feature Intel Skylake, the sixth generation core processors.
Square Enix and Psyonix have announced the first season of the Nosgoth Leagues with one hundred players being rewarded with cash every month. The first season will kick off on October 1st with players competing for a top cash prize of $1,000 through participation in ranked matches.
Zenimax has been sharing details about The Elder Scrolls Online’s first DLC content, The Imperial City for about three weeks. Last week’s QuakeCon presentation centralized all the details of the Imperial City all in one place, while also living up to the "Beyond" portion of the presentation’s title with some new details about what to expect from both the game and its future DLC content.
Although the modern MMOG era is usually regarded as having begun less than two decades ago, the category has come a very long way in this time span. It has gone from a tiny, virtually unknown niche to a genre that counts millions of regular players and generates billions of dollars in revenue. There’s also every reason to anticipate continuing growth. That said, the future isn’t completely clear. What lies ahead will be determined by how various questions and issues are addressed.
I have a confession to make. My Engineer in Guild Wars 2 was the first character I leveled to 80. It was also the first character I stopped playing at the cap, because I realized I just didn’t like not having a melee focus in GW2. Silly right? It took me 80 levels and then some to figure that out. But Heart of Thorns could change all that, with one simple thing: a big ol’ two-handed hammer.
EverQuest II producer Holly Longdale has posted the most recent state of the game letter on the official forums. In it, Longdale gives players the first information about server consolidation and indicates that this is not "evasive language" but that it is the approach of Daylight Game Studio.
Browser-based Chrono Wars developers have announced the addition of two new systems in the game that will be of keen interest to players. First is the wedding feature that unlocks at level 52 and from which players can benefit through completion of in-game activities and wedding ring upgrades.