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Wily Kotaku readers have pointed out a new World of Warcraft fan video by a player named BigCliffy. BigCliffy has made a hyperlapse video showing the enormity of Azeroth by traveling from one end of Kalimdor to the other, Eastern Kingdoms from end to end, and Pandaria from side to side. Of course a couple disconnected areas are missing, but if there’s any doubt about the amount of things to see and do in WoW, this should relieve that. Check it out!
Harebrained Schemes has announced the official release date for Shadowrun: Hong Kong via the game’s KickStarter page. Pencil in August 20th for the debut of the much-anticipated title.
Star Trek Online fans will want to check out the game now that the latest Featured Episode, Broken Circle, is now live. Broken Circle brings series characters Nog (Aron Eisenberg), Tom Paris (Duncan McNeill) and Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). In addition to playing through the content, players can look forward to weekly rewards such as this week’s Reactive Armor Catalysts Pack. The first completion of the Featured Episode on an account will also score a Weekly Reward Box.
The Rift community team will be on hand later today to show off the new Assault feature coming with the Into the Wilds update. The live stream will take place today at 3:30 pm Pacific / 6:30 pm Eastern in the Rift Twitch channel. In addition, players can log into the Public Test Shard beginning at 3:30 pm Pacific / 6:30 pm Eastern to try out Assault mode live and in person.
The latest Defiance developer Q&A has been posted on the game’s official site. As per the norm, several player questions have been taken covering topics as wide-ranging as the Midsummer Mutiny event, console lock ups,PC render distance improvements and more.
Next week’s Gamescom is shaping up to be another massive event. Wargaming plans to be on hand with its patented ‘booth’ that features a huge variety of machines with chances to get hands on time with all of the company’s titles, particularly with this year’s centerpiece, World of Warships.
Bandai Namco has sent word that Sword Art Online RE: Hollow Fragment is delayed by one week and will be released for PlayStation 4 on August 4th. The game will feature an "improved HD version of the game" that was originally released exclusively for PlayStation Vita.
Fans of Action RPGs will want to check out the ten minutes of gameplay footage from Bombshell. Bombshell was shown off to attendees at this weekend’s QuakeCon. Bombshell is developed by Interceptor Entertainment, a studio that lent its expertise to several of the Duke Nukem titles. Bombshell is expected to be released later this year.
I was in attendance at QuakeCon in 2011 when Skyrim got its first major showing. I’m not the type to give in to hype, but I still remember being in awe of the majesty and grandeur of it all, and leaving the auditorium as excited as I could be for an upcoming game.
Recently MMORPG.com took time to sit down with Wallace Santos from Maingear Computers and Thomas Petersen from NVIDIA this past week. Part one of this video series talks about NVIDIA GameWorks program and how they are helping studios and developers make their games better. It covers every aspect of the program from building relationships, how the technology is being used, and how certain games (especially Batman Arkham Knight) are even being repaired by the GameWorks engineers.