Everyone has a fighting chance
On Monday at the Electronic Arts presser at E3, BioWare Austin announced that it was overturning the applecart that is Star Wars: the Old Republic. While we got a taste of the next iteration the previous Friday when a somewhat calculated leak of the new expansion’s name and many of its details was hastily removed from the official website, sometimes it takes a trailer and a studio General Manager showing up to make it feel more real.
Balance is a funny concept, both in games and all over real life. Nothing is really ever fair and true balance is not only impossible, but it’s also boring. And in the past, even when game companies worked so diligently to balance every class against the others, there was still an illusion of imbalance.
Fans of Deus Ex will be thrilled to hear that a brand new cinematic trailer for Deux Ex: Mankind Divided has been released at this week’s E3. The video contains a bit of gameplay and in-game vistas that just might make your mouth water in anticipation of its release in 2016.
Daybreak Game Studio wants to put players in control of the game they are playing. With that in mind, the EverQuest II team is introducing something called "time-locked progression servers" in both PvE and PvP flavors.
Artcraft has announced that it has raised over two million dollars in crowd-funding for its forthcoming MMO, Crowfall. Over nineteen thousand backers have contributed to the cause.
Wargaming has announced that the XBox One version of World of Tanks will be launching on July 28th. In addition to the core gameplay, both XBox One and XBox 360 will be able to engage in cross-platform warfare.
So the big revelations for this year’s E3 are out there. EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda and Square Enix have all shown off their stable of games with a lot of excitement generated and yet, it all feels a little hollow. Are we in 2015 or 2009 or somewhere in the 2002? What I mean is that it seems like it’s the same titles, the same games, the same characters coming back yet again.
Let’s get this out of the way: by the time you’re reading this, Heart of Thorns will have just gone on sale, so get yourself to the Guild Wars 2 website (or really, ANYWHERE) and pick yourself up a preorder.
During this week’s PC Gaming Show, Obsidian Entertainment announced the first expansion to Pillars of Eternity. Called "The White March", the expansion is "a whole lot more Eternity" with more companions, a level cap increase, more dialog, etc. It will be more than the first game.
I’m going to touch on some top secret information…information that many Bothans died to bring me…information that came from the latest Camelot Unchained update! Ok so it’s not really secret since I share it with roughly twenty thousand Camelot Unchained backers and whoever reads the newsletter and updates on the CU website once they are added.