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Fans of Overwatch hungry for more information and gameplay footage from the forthcoming Blizzard title will be happy to hear that there is a new video with eight big minutes of footage featuring Zenyatta, the omnic monk. Check it out and let us know what you think!
We received just 500 more Cabal 2 beta keys to give away today. These are going to be gone in a matter of minutes so get yours now!
The latest hero from Gigantic has been revealed on the game’s official site. Her name is Imani and according to her description, she is a sneaky sniper. Fighting from range, Imani can deal massive damage before making herself invisible and beating a hasty retreat.
Perfect World and Cryptic Studios have announced that the XBox One version of Neverwinter has become the number one free to play title. Over 1.6M players have downloaded the console title since it launched earlier this spring.
NCSoft has released their financial results for the first quarter of 2015, and the results are a mixed bag of the good and predictably bad. Blade & Soul has seen continued growth, the company is in an overall better position, and second half releases are set to bring in an infusion of cash. There is nothing to worry about.
Essentially a prolonged paid beta, Early Access is a great tool for indies to keep the lights on as they work their way to official launch. But the newly coined development state has its own fair share of issues, chief among which is putting a clearly unfinished game out to the general public. That’s kind of where Nekro, from DarkForge Games, sits right now. It’s an Action RPG Strategy hybrid of a game with a novel setting and design, but it’s also just kind of boring to play.
Reto-Moto has announced that its World War II themed MMOFPS, Heroes & Generals, has scored over five million registered accounts worldwide. The explosive growth has taken off since H&G launched its early access program on Steam in the summer of 2014. To celebrate the big news, Reto-Moto will be giving all players a gold voucher code during the upcoming weekend.
Bitbox Ltd. is reporting that Life is Feudal, a "hardcore, medieval MMO", has been downloaded over two hundred thousand times on Steam during its current early access period of development. To celebrate the big news, Bitbox has a special Developers’ AMA scheduled on Reddit for Thursday, May 14th at 9:00 am Pacific / 12:00pm Eastern.
NCSoft’s financial results for Q1 2015 have been released and show a marked decline over Q4 2014. Guild Wars 2 is the one shining light due to excitement generated by the Heart of Thorns expansion. WildStar’s profits declined by nearly half from already dismal sales in Q4 2014.
Chris and Ryan are joined by special guest and regular Shroud of the Avatar writer, Red Thomas! Together they talk about the WoW subscription plummet, as well as dig deep into Red’s areas of expertise, Crowfall and Shroud of the Avatar. Will Crowfall pull subscribers for WoW? Is it finally time to buy into Shroud of the Avatar?