Everyone has a fighting chance
Sure, plenty of places have already called The Witcher 3 one of the greatest games of all time, and they might be right. But PC codes for the epic RPG from CD Projekt Red just went out yesterday, so you’ll have to stomach us getting our review done after the rest of the known world. Today, we’ll go into our thoughts after spending the first couple of hours in Geralt’s final adventure, with the full review coming next week.
Tactical RPG Project X Zone 2 is ready to take off with a ton of newly announced cross over characters. The new characters come from iconic games from Sega, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, and others. Project X Zone 2 is expected to be released in autumn 2015.
When the world first heard about Double Damage Games founded by former Torchlight and Diablo series veterans Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer, the safe bet was that they would be hard at work on another demon-infested universe straight out of the action RPG genre. All that can be said is "boy were we all wrong".
The building has begun, the city is bustling with activity, and Lion’s Arch is officially being rebuilt in ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2. But it won’t ever be just as it was, as the developer today released a new dev blog on what the rebuild entails.
In celebration of the seventh anniversary of Age of Conan, the latest Letter from the Producer reveals the addition of two new areas for players to explore. The Blue Mountains and Vanaheim at Fort Storisbjorn will become part of the epic main storyline along with attendant side quests and the ability to score some great gear.
WildStar players will want to check their inventories for a new vanity pet given by way of apology for recent downtime extensions. Be on the lookout for an Enhanced Pumera and give its cheek a little pinch for us, will you?
Fans of Blizzard IPs and games will definitely sit up and take notice of the fact that Heroes of the Storm has been unleashed into open beta. Starters will get an awesome trio of heroes including Jim Raynor from Starcraft, Sylvanas Windrunner from World of Warcraft and Diablo from the Diablo series of games.
The Newbie Blogger Initiative has been continuing through the month of May. One of the weekly NBI events is called the "Talkback Challenge" and the question for this week is an interesting one: "What made you a gamer?"
How do you make a pet class for a game that is being built for large scale open world pvp battles? As much as I love them (and have loved them since I first dabbled in "Creature Handler" way back in Star Wars galaxies) pets in any game are hard to get right and in a PVP game they can be downright game breaking! When I heard CU was going to have a "pet class" stretch goal my skeptical pager started buzzing!
One of the best things a game developer can do is get direction from those who play it. While a developer may have passion for the game they are creating, they will never understand the game itself like those who play it day in and day out. We play the games for a lot longer than any developer. So of course we all have feedback and design concepts that we feel could improve the overall quality of the game.